Your work days are brighter here.
We’re 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, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll 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. We’re 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 you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll 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, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.
About the Team
Workday is the enterprise AI platform for people, money, and agents, enabling over 11,000 customers to move business forward with a single, open platform. Workday Extend empowers third party developers to build custom AI apps that live in and run on Workday, and is one of our fastest growing products.About the Role
This is an executive role with direct P&L influence. The successful candidate will:
Technical Leadership
Executive Leadership & Organizational Scaling: Lead and scale a global, multi-site organization of engineering managers, architects, and software engineers of approximately 100. Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, speed, and continuous learning.
Market Leadership & Architecture Vision: Define and execute a multi-year technical vision for Workday Extend, empowering developers to innovate with AI while ensuring the platform remains highly available, secure, and scalable.
High-Quality Delivery at Scale: Oversee the end-to-end development, launch, and post-launch support for all Workday Extend platform capabilities, ensuring they meet rigorous enterprise standards for security, reliability, and performance.
Talent Strategy & Development: Recruit, mentor, and retain world-class engineering and management talent. Develop the organization's technical and leadership capabilities to meet long-term strategic growth objectives.
Drive Business Success & Operational Rigor
Drive Revenue Enablement: Partner closely with Product, Strategy, and GTM to align the engineering roadmap with strategic market opportunities, directly enabling $XXX Million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) targets for Workday Extend.
Own the Technical P&L Contribution: Be directly accountable for the Workday Extend platform’s financial success, ensuring engineering investment translates into platform features that drive customer adoption, recurring revenue, and superior gross margins.
Operational Stewardship: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level objectives (SLOs) that directly map engineering productivity and operational costs to the overall profitability and customer satisfaction metrics of Workday Extend.
Cross-Functional Executive Collaboration: Serve as the engineering face of Workday Extend, regularly presenting platform strategy, progress, and business impact to C-suite executives, key customers and partners, and at industry events. Drive architectural consensus and technology adoption across Workday platform teams.
About You
The ideal candidate is an experienced technology executive with a proven track record of scaling engineering organizations that have directly contributed to substantial revenue growth in the cloud or SaaS industry. You are a builder, an operational leader, and a strategic partner to the business.
Executive Leadership: 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years as a Director or VP leading large (100+ people), global, multi-disciplinary platform engineering teams, with people managers reporting to you.
Cloud & Platform Expertise: Deep, verifiable experience in designing, launching, and operating enterprise-class, large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms. Experience building and launching developer products/platforms is highly desirable.
Business Acumen: Demonstrated history of collaborating with Product Management to define roadmaps that successfully balance innovation, technical debt, and direct business/revenue objectives.
Education: BS in Computer Science or a related field; a Graduate Degree (MS or MBA) is highly desirable.
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. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.
Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, we’re 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 you'll 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.
Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
At Workday, we are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive hiring experience where all candidates can fully demonstrate their skills. If you require assistance or an accommodation at any point, please email accommodations@workday.com.
Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!
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.