Senior Product Manager, Workday

Zillow is a leading real estate platform in the U.S. seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager to enhance Workday functionalities across various HR modules. The role involves driving product strategy, managing stakeholders, and delivering improvements in HR operations and employee experience.

Responsibilities:

• Understand business goals, uncover employee pain points, and translate functional requirements into a clear, outcome‑driven product vision for Workday
• Own and evolve the Workday roadmap, balancing near‑term operational needs with longer‑term scalability, automation, and employee experience improvements
• Proactively identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce friction, and improve self‑service across Workday domains
• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of Workday enhancements, including problem definition, requirements, backlog prioritization, sprint planning, testing, launch, and post‑launch validation to drive measurable improvements in HR and employee experiences
• Create clarity in ambiguous situations, quickly making sense of the work and aligning teams toward an achievable path forward
• Guide stakeholders through problem framing, solution design, tradeoffs, and sequencing decisions, and drive alignment across teams by clarifying ownership, dependencies, expectations, and resolving misalignment
• Communicate product direction, progress, risks, and outcomes through clear product briefs, demos, status updates, and executive‑ready storytelling
• Partner with the Employee Service Center and Operations to design, improve, and scale sustainable Workday processes and solutions that support global scale, interoperability, reliability, and ease of use

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager with direct product ownership in an Agile environment, partnering closely with engineers and cross‑functional stakeholders
• 2–4 years of experience executing product development within Workday, with hands‑on experience in at least one of the following domains: Talent Acquisition, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, HCM, AI, and/or Extend; experience across multiple Workday modules is a plus but not required
• Comfortable leveraging AI and automation to work more effectively and increase impact
• Proven ability to manage and deliver across multiple large‑scale initiatives simultaneously, balancing quality, impact, and timelines
• Clear, concise, and effective communicator with strong judgment on when to step back to reassess alignment and when to step in to remove operational blockers and drive progress
• Demonstrated end‑to‑end product management and technical implementation experience, including discovery, requirements definition, planning, prioritization, stakeholder management, user testing, launch execution, and measuring post‑launch impact, with a strong track record of delivering high‑quality outcomes
• Experienced in guiding prioritization and making thoughtful trade‑off decisions that balance customer needs with technical and organizational constraints
• Experience applying AI or automation within HR systems or Workday Extend is a plus
• Experience across multiple Workday modules is a plus