Principal Product Manager - Observability - Logs & Traces

Workday

Hybrid (flexible schedule with at least 50% of time spent in-office or with clients quarterly)
12+ years product management experience
Saas or cloud-based infrastructure expertise
Deep familiarity with metrics logs traces alerting
Workday is seeking a Principal Product Manager for their observability platform, focusing on managing the product lifecycle for logs and traces in a cloud-based environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in product management, particularly in SaaS and observability concepts, to enhance internal developer and operational efficiency

Job Summary

  • This role involves managing the product vision and roadmap for Workday's observability platform spanning the full data lifecycle from collection to visualization.
  • You will partner with engineering and SRE teams to define high-impact OKRs focused on faster incident response and reduced operational toil.
  • Workday offers a flexible work approach requiring at least half of your time each quarter to be spent in the office or field with customers.

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Workday is seeking a Principal Product Manager for their observability platform, focusing on managing the product lifecycle for logs and traces in a cloud-based environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in product management, particularly in SaaS and observability concepts, to enhance internal developer and operational efficiency.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 12+ years product management experience
  • SaaS or cloud-based infrastructure expertise
  • Deep familiarity with metrics logs traces alerting
  • Experience owning products in data pipeline space
  • Strong track record of cross-team collaboration

Nice-to-have

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
  • Knowledge of Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Elasticsearch
  • Experience with user interviews and dogfooding programs
  • Strategic thinker connecting platform to business outcomes
  • Ability to influence without authority

Key Requirements

  • 12+ years of product management experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline
  • Proven ability to lead complex distributed systems initiatives

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