About the position
At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers. Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not. In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday. The Workday Financials Outbound Product Management team partners with Sales, Strategy, Services, and Inbound Product Managers to identify the most important problems to be solved. We engage with customers, prospects, and our go-to-market (GTM) teams to drive the value, awareness, and adoption of our products. Outbound Product Managers combine a deep understanding of product capabilities, domain knowledge, industry trends, and competitive intelligence to inform our roadmap. They enable our customers, partners, and GTM teams to realize the value delivered.
Responsibilities
- Be the point-of-contact for the Financial Audit Agent and other Financials capabilities for GTM teams, Marketing, and Services and support them during the Land-Adopt-Expand-Renew operating cycle.
- Use competitor analysis, industry trends, product analytics, as well as insights from customers and internal customer-facing functions to inform the roadmap.
- Be the voice of our customers and apply your understanding of use cases and success outcomes to influence feature design and implementation strategy.
- Create and publish content that communicates the 'what' and 'why' of our features, connecting product capabilities to value.
- Design and execute feature adoption initiatives to achieve success outcomes and ensure that customers continuously realize value.
- Craft and deliver high-quality presentations to a variety of audiences at conferences, customer visits, and during sales cycles.
- Support industry analyst engagements to help position Workday Financials as an industry leader.
Requirements
- 8+ years experience in GL accounting, internal audit, and/or public accounting.
- Direct experience or deep understanding of GL accounting, account reconciliation, and/or financial audit.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to lead customer engagements and present to large audiences.
- Experience with Agentic AI/ Gen AI/ Agents.
Nice-to-haves
- Product management experience and knowledge of AI products is highly desired.
- Experience building cross-team relationships with effective outcomes.
- Proven understanding of design thinking and product development process.
- Able to make tradeoff decisions, participate in a culture of knowledge sharing and transparency, and appreciate the challenges engineering and product teams face.
- Experience developing or supporting enterprise SaaS products.
- MBA degree is a plus.
Benefits
- Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus.
- Annual refresh stock grants.
- Flexible work schedule allowing for a mix of in-person and remote work.
