Senior Product Manager, Workday

Zillow is a leading real estate platform dedicated to providing innovative technology solutions for its People Org. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive enhancements to Workday across multiple modules, improve HR operations, and enhance the employee experience through strategic product management and collaboration with engineering partners.

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