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VP, Product Design

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Were obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, were shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, youll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. Were in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether youre building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, youll do meaningful work with Workmates whove got your back. In return, well give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, youve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

We are a team that lives and breaths what it means to be RAD; we recognize our role in effecting change that leads to great business outcomes and high customer value through extraordinary user experience. We believe the most effective UX organizations are those who build strong, trust based relationships with our cross-functional partners. We recognize that we are the team that helps Workday deliver outstanding experiences, rooted in how people think, feel, and work.

About the Role

We are seeking a high-caliber, problem-solving leader to serve as the portfolio experience partner for our core enterprise product suite. Your mission is to accelerate adoption and growth through design-led strategy, visionary exploration, and elevated UX maturity. You will deliver unparalleled value to our customers by reducing friction and ensuring our products lead to faster, better outcomes. We seek a strategic leader who will lead a high-performing design organization accountable for the intersection of traditional, deep application workflows and emerging agentic capabilities, ensuring every experience is built for excellence, speed, and measurable impact.

Role Reports To: Tammy Snow, VP of Research, Analytics, Design
Tammy joined Workday in August, 2021 and leads a multi-discipline team of designers, researchers, data scientists, and design technologists. The teams mission is to pioneer the next generation of enterprise excellence by designing trusted, agentic experiences that empower users to achieve better outcomes faster and grow alongside our evolving product suite. Prior to joining Workday, Tammy led teams at Meta, Expedia Group, and Microsoft.

Key Responsibilities

  • Portfolio Experience Partnership: Serve as the primary partner to Group GMs to identify experience opportunities that drive adoption, retention, and market expansion. You will translate complex business strategies into a cohesive experience direction, ensuring product roadmaps account for design excellence and user-centric KPIs.
  • Workflow Optimization and Friction Reduction: Relentlessly audit and improve existing enterprise experiences. You are responsible for identifying high-friction touchpoints and streamlining them into elegant, usable workflows that deliver faster, better outcomes.
  • Growth and Innovation Leadership: Lead design-led explorations that define future product categories and growth initiatives. You will be responsible for ensuring that innovation work informs our platform systems and long-term experience strategy, influencing the design-led innovations that land on our product roadmaps.
  • Agentic and Deep Workflow Integration: Provide the architectural leadership required to design experiences where autonomous agents co-exist seamlessly with deep, complex application workflows. You will define how the system transitions between human-led and AI-assisted tasks without breaking the users mental model.
  • UX Maturity and Accountability: Raise the experience bar across product teams by modeling strong design leadership and decision-making. You will drive consistent experience ownership across the portfolio and hold the authority to escalate experience risks that impact customer satisfaction.
  • Platform System Contribution and Governance: Ensure 100% adoption of our platform-level design system across the enterprise suite. You are accountable for ensuring your teams real-world product use cases inform the expansion of the system, contributing a robust library of patterns specifically for human-to-agent hand-offs and collaborative intelligence.
  • Data-Informed Strategic Excellence: Partner closely with our Analytics and Research teams to ensure all product and design investments are deeply informed by user data. You will be responsible for measuring improvements and proving the ROI of design through outcome-based metrics.
  • Cross-Organizational Leadership: Build deep, trust-based relationships across Marketing, Research, Analytics, Engineering, and Product. You will lead through influence to ensure a unified product voice and strategic alignment across the entire organization.

About You

  • Scale and Complexity: 10+ years of leadership experience in a multi-domain enterprise environment (e.g., Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Microsoft). You have a proven track record of managing managers and navigating high-stakes product portfolios.
  • Multimodal Problem Solver: A passion for solving difficult product, design, and operational problems across various form factors (Desktop, Mobile, etc.). You thrive when untangling complex logic and turning it into simple user outcomes.
  • Business and Financial Acumen: You speak the language of GMs. You understand how design decisions impact conversion, retention, and growth, and you can defend design investments in terms of business value and P&L impact.
  • Strategic Relationship Building: A proven history of building cross-functional alliances that go beyond the "triad." You value the input of Marketing, Research, and Analytics as much as Engineering and Product to achieve strategic excellence.
  • Systems Thinking: Ability to lead within a federated design model, ensuring team contributions strengthen the central design system while maintaining high velocity for specific product use cases. You are able to lead from a view of the whole while recognizing the power of the parts.
  • Innovation Resilience (Nice to Have): Experience shipping AI-driven features is a plus, but more important is the ability to apply design rigors to emerging technologies to ensure they solve real-world enterprise problems rather than adding noise.

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. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things.

Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton
Primary Location Base Pay Range: $284,000 USD - $426,000 USD
Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $284,000 USD - $426,000 USD
Additional Considerations: The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below: 03/13/2026

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, were 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 youll 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.

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