Requirements
5+ years of related product management experience in SaaS, cloud infrastructure, or data platform environments
Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline such as Business, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
Domain Knowledge: Strong technical understanding of data platforms and distributed systems, including familiarity with technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or similar environments.
You apply this specialised knowledge to inform platform direction and anticipate future trends and changes
Research and Requirements Gathering (Research): Skilled in conducting discovery and requirements gathering to clearly define the problem space.
You use techniques such as customer interviews, data analysis, and cross-functional workshops to help the team deeply understand developer and customer needs and to inform well-prioritised product decisions
Data Analysis: Comfortable using data to build business cases, evaluate tradeoffs, and measure outcomes.
You can translate complex data into clear, actionable insights that guide product direction and prioritisation
Strategic Thinking and Roadmapping: Experienced in operating in the problem space and using roadmaps as a critical artefact for how you work.
You connect platform strategy to customer and business outcomes, and can communicate a clear multi-quarter vision that aligns teams and partners
Stakeholder Management & Cross-Team Collaboration: Skilled at collaborating across engineering, SRE, performance, security, and go-to-market teams.
You build strong relationships, manage differing perspectives, and drive alignment on priorities and tradeoffs
Customer & Business Advocacy: Dedicated to representing the voice of the customer and the business strategy internally.
You understand how platform decisions impact application developers and end customers, and use that insight to influence product design, reliability, and usability
Very good product management fundamentals: you are comfortable framing problems, defining success metrics, and breaking complex initiatives into incremental, testable deliverables
What the job involves
The Workday Data Cloud Platform team is building an industry-leading, comprehensive data management and analytics platform that enables customers to unlock the highest value from their enterprise data and drive better business outcomes
This role sits within the infrastructure data platform area of Data Cloud, where we are focused on scaling the underlying platform to meet both vertical and horizontal demands of a cloud data platform
You will work closely with the Delivery Engineering team, which operates across distributed systems, observability tooling, agent ops, cloud automation, security, and resiliency.
We are growing our footprint across multiple cloud locations and taking on exciting new use cases for the business
This is a fast-moving, technically oriented team that is leaning into AI to improve how we operate.
If you are energised by building the foundational platform that powers the next generation of enterprise analytics, this is the team for you
As a Senior Technical Product Manager on the Data Cloud Platform team, you will be at the centre of defining what the platform needs to become, bridging the gap between the needs of data-centric applications and what the infrastructure can deliver
You will shape the direction of a platform that underpins Workday's analytics capabilities, partnering across engineering, SRE, performance, and go-to-market teams to ensure the platform scales securely and effectively in the public cloud
Depending on your experience and scope, we are open to hiring at either the Senior or Principal Product Manager level.
At the Principal level, you will take on greater ownership of cross-team strategy, influence across org boundaries, and long-term platform vision
Dive into use cases and deeply understand what Data Cloud Platform must provide so internal teams can build the next generation of analytic applications using our data management capabilities
Develop proficiency in architectural approaches and provide guidance on APIs and micro-services that serve as building blocks for platform and application development
Identify, specify, and prioritise features and capabilities through input from customers, partner teams, architects, and your own domain expertise
Partner with Product Managers across Workday's various pillars to identify functional and nonfunctional requirements, with a focus on scale, performance, and security
Act as the Product Owner in one or more scrum teams: setting the vision, writing and prioritising user stories, grooming the backlog, keeping the team focused, and communicating regularly with partners
Build out the infrastructure strategy for the Data Cloud Platform on public cloud
Work closely with Distributed Service, SRE and Performance teams
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