About the TeamYou'll join the AI Products team, where we build Workday's AI agents from the ground up. Our mission is to bring these agents to life inside real customer environments - testing them against real data, real workflows, and real use cases.
We're early in the agent lifecycle, which means the work here is hands-on, fast-moving, and genuinely entrepreneurial: you'll often help write the playbook for how Workday deploys a new agent, rather than follow one that already exists. If you want to be close to the product at the exact moment it's taking shape, and to see your fieldwork directly change the product, this is the team to build inside.
About the RoleAs a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll work directly with some of Workday's most important early customers to deploy, configure, and improve our AI products and agents. You'll work alongside our product and engineering teams as an extension of our internal product managers, playing a central role in agent Early Access (EA) programs and running the customer deployments inside them.
Your mission is to make the product better by putting it to work in a live customer environment. A successful deployment is both a win for the customer and proof that the product is improving, so making early customers successful matters just as much as hardening the agent itself. You'll often be the first person at Workday to run a deployment of a given agent, so good judgment, clear communication, ownership, and organization will matter as much as technical curiosity.
Every deployment will surface something the product wasn't built for yet, so creative problem-solving and a "yes, and" mindset are core to this role: instead of telling a customer that something isn't possible, you'll find a way to solve their use case with what exists today, bring them along on what's coming next, and turn the gap into clear feedback for product and engineering.
In this role, you will:
- Lead customer discovery to understand each customer's goals and what success looks like for them
- Act as the day-to-day lead for design partners and EA customers: setting and resetting expectations, working with senior leaders across HR, Finance, and IT, and repairing relationships when a deployment hits a rough patch
- Run EA deployments end to end: implement, configure, debug, and improve the solution through rapid iteration with direct customer feedback
- Interpret customer tenant data, configuration, and unique workflows, and how the agent performs against them
- Triage every issue quickly, sorting bugs from configuration issues, product gaps, and change-management needs, prioritize them, and route each to the right owner with the right urgency
- Keep customers and internal teams updated on status, risks, and next steps
- Turn customer feedback into clear problem statements, reproduction details, and evidence that product and engineering can act on to make the agent more accurate and reliable
- Help define, measure, and assess the pre-GA stage gates and graduation scorecard for your product
- Build playbooks, configuration patterns, and known-issue guides, and hand them off to the teams that scale deployments and build documentation
- Partner closely with your product's program manager and the Workday Services lead on each customer project
- Stay engaged through early GA until your product meets its graduation criteria, and remain a point of contact for major customers and future releases afterward
About YouBasic Qualifications - P4 (Senior)- 7+ years of experience in product management, consulting, solutions engineering, implementation, or customer support within complex enterprise environments
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites as needed
Basic Qualifications - P5 (Principal)
- 10+ years of experience in technical product management, solution architecture, forward deployed engineering, enterprise implementation, or principal-level consulting within complex enterprise SaaS ecosystems
- Experience driving complex AI/ML, automation, or enterprise software deployments at scale with Fortune 500 executive stakeholders
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites as needed
Other Qualifications- A demonstrated history of entrepreneurial ownership: you've built something from scratch, worked without a playbook, or driven an initiative end to end in an ambiguous environment, and you're energized by figuring out the right path when one doesn't already exist
- Experience managing strategic customer relationships with senior leaders in key accounts - setting and resetting expectations, navigating organizational change, and rebuilding trust when a project hits a rough patch
- Working knowledge of Workday, including business processes, security and permissions, tenant configuration, integrations, and how customers implement and govern Workday, so you can read a customer's tenant and understand how the agent will behave inside it
Workday Pay Transparency StatementThe annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate's compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday's comprehensive benefits, please click here.
Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton
Primary Location Base Pay Range: $176,000 USD - $264,000 USD
Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $148,200 USD - $264,000 USD
Additional Considerations:
If performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $156,000 - $234,000 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.
The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below:
01/11/2027
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