Workday

Senior Product Advisor - Developer Platform

Workday$148K — $222K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in technical enablement, developer advocacy, or related areas within enterprise software or SaaS.
  • Excellent communicator, capable of simplifying complex tech for varied audiences.
  • Proficient in relationship management across diverse organizational groups.
  • Analytical thinker, focused on the broader implications of the developer ecosystem.
  • Creative problem-solver, eager to explore innovative tools and approaches.
  • Empathetic understanding of developer needs and challenges.
  • Strong organizational skills to manage multiple priorities effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Enable Forward Deployed Engineers on existing and new Developer Platform capabilities, focusing on AI features.
  • Support Early Adopter programs, ensuring effective delivery and testing of emerging product features.
  • Drive outcomes for EA participants, ensuring they have the necessary support for successful testing.
  • Gather and translate feedback from developers into actionable insights for product squads.
  • Guide the developer community in integrating AI tools and flexible development models.
  • Maintain deep expertise in Developer Platform features and capabilities.
  • Present and contribute across various platforms, such as webinars and forums.

Benefits

  • Flexible work schedule promoting in-office and remote balance.
  • Active community-building opportunities with team and clientele interactions.
  • Robust support for ongoing training and professional development.
  • Inclusive culture where team members collaborate to ensure everyone's success.
Full Job Description
About the Team
The Developer Platform Product Enablement team is one of the driving forces behind a productive, well-enabled developer ecosystem at Workday. Working in partnership with Product Managers, Product Marketing, and key groups including Forward Deployed Engineers, Developer Relations, Customer Developers, and Services Ecosystem Consultants, the team brings specialized, hands-on technical expertise rooted in building and developing on the platform itself. We translate complex platform capabilities into practical guidance that developers and internal teams depend on every day.

This team sits at the forefront of one of the most significant shifts in Workday's history. As the developer ecosystem evolves from building traditional apps and integrations to building agents, agentic apps, and integrations designed for the agentic landscape, we are leading the way in helping developers embrace new AI tooling like Developer Agent and Agent Ready Tools. We enable front-line resources, most notably Forward Deployed Engineers, to lead the field in the AI shift with Workday's most strategic customers.

The team also serves as a critical part of the feedback pathway between the field and Workday's product and engineering teams. Through programs like Early Adopter engagements and close partnership with customer-facing teams, we provide the context, perspective, and translation that turns real-world customer feedback into concepts that resonate with Product Managers and Engineers. This ensures that feedback makes a meaningful impact on product prioritization and ultimately improves the developer experience.

What makes this team special is its deeply hands-on culture. Every member comes from an implementer or developer background, which means we don't just understand what the product is capable of, we know how to build with it. We take tremendous pride in our work, embrace every challenge, and share a genuine sense of unity. Team members reprioritize to help one another and ensure everyone succeeds, whether directly involved in each other's initiatives or not.

About the Role

As a Senior Product Advisor on the Developer Platform Product Enablement team, you will serve as a bridge between product and the diverse groups that build on the Workday platform. You will play an important role in ensuring that developers, partners, and internal teams have the technical knowledge, resources, and enablement they need to succeed, especially as the ecosystem shifts toward agentic solutions and AI-driven development workflows.

In this role, you will be responsible for:
  • Enabling Forward Deployed Engineers and other front-line roles on both existing and emerging Developer Platform capabilities, with a focus on the newest AI features so they can position and solution the platform effectively with Workday's most strategic customers.
  • Supporting and contributing to Early Adopter programs for emerging product features across Developer Platform, AI Platform, and Product Development Engineering, helping ensure EA programs are delivered effectively, products are thoroughly tested in real-world customer environments, and constructive feedback is curated for product teams prior to general availability.
  • Ensuring that EA participants receive the enablement and support necessary to use and test EA products, driving positive outcomes that include successful testing, actionable product feedback, and customer success stories for marketing use at launch.
  • Serving as a key contributor to the feedback loop between the field and product by gathering, contextualizing, and translating customer and developer feedback into insights that resonate with Product Managers and engineers, helping to shape product prioritization and drive meaningful improvements to the developer experience.
  • Helping the developer community understand how to bring together agents, agentic apps, integrations, and AI tooling to build solutions faster, guiding them through the shift from a closed-wall approach to an open, flexible development model while championing responsible AI usage.
  • Building and maintaining deep expertise across the developer platform and its features and capabilities.
  • Presenting on webinars, contributing to Developer Forums, and participating in enablement sessions for Forward Deployed Engineers, sales, services, partners, developers, and other customer-facing teams.


About You

Basic Qualifications:
  • 7+ years of related work experience in technical enablement, developer advocacy, solutions engineering, product consulting, or a related field within an enterprise software or SaaS environment.


Other Qualifications:
  • Skilled communicator, with the ability to exchange complex technical information clearly across a range of audiences, from developers and engineers to product leaders and customer-facing teams. You are comfortable presenting at conferences, leading enablement sessions, and contributing to technical forums, adapting your style to ensure your message resonates.
  • Experienced in managing relationships across multiple groups, with a demonstrated ability to identify the needs and expectations of diverse partners, including product, engineering, sales, services, and customer teams, and to develop communication approaches that build alignment and facilitate engagement in cross-organizational programs.
  • Forward-looking and analytical, with the ability to generate and apply insights about the developer ecosystem and platform landscape to identify opportunities, anticipate challenges, and develop plans that align with Workday's long-term goals. You think beyond the immediate task to consider the broader impact of your work.
  • Creative, resourceful, and willing to explore beyond familiar tools and processes, with the ability to develop and implement new ideas, approaches, and solutions that create value for the developer community. You actively seek out external tools, technologies, and methods that can push the boundaries of what is possible, and you bring that curiosity back to your team and the broader developer ecosystem.
  • Deeply empathetic toward the developer experience, with a natural ability to understand the perspective, needs, and challenges of developers and customers. You actively listen, put yourself in the developer's shoes, and use that understanding to improve enablement, shape feedback for product teams, and ensure developers feel supported.
  • Highly organized and adaptable, with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and responsibilities at the same time. You bring structure and discipline to your work while remaining flexible and ready to shift direction as product strategy evolves and urgent needs arise.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create compelling technical content including samples, demos, guided activities, and documentation.


Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The 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: $148,500 USD - $222,700 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $125,400 USD - $222,700 USD

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

About Workday

Workday, Inc. is a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. The Company delivers financial management, human capital management and analytics applications designed for various companies, educational institutions and government agencies. As part of its applications, the Company provides embedded analytics that capture the content and context of everyday business events, facilitating informed decision-making from wherever users are working. Its applications include Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Other Applications. It also provides open, standards-based Web-services application programming interfaces, and pre-built packaged integrations and connectors. Workday, Inc. is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.
Learn more about Workday
Size
15,932 employees
Market Cap
$42.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$282.4 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+26.7%
Revenue
$4.3 billion
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