Workday
Sr. Product Manager - Observability
$141K–$252K
USA, CA, Pleasanton · Flex · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of product management experience; meaningful time in Observability, Monitoring, APM, or related infrastructure/developer tooling domains.
About the job
Owns Workday’s observability product strategy, especially distributed tracing and AI-assisted detection and incident triage.
What you'll do
- Set the observability vision, strategy, and roadmap, with a focus on distributed tracing.
- Define AI-enabled anomaly detection and LLM-based incident summarization and triage requirements with ML and engineering teams.
- Research user needs, write product specifications, and measure outcomes such as detection quality, MTTD, and MTTR.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of product management experience, including meaningful time in observability, monitoring, APM, or related infrastructure/developer tooling.
- Demonstrable expertise in distributed tracing concepts and technologies.
- Strong technical background, including reading code and engaging in system architecture and design discussions.
- Hands-on understanding of AI/ML detection and triage techniques, plus experience partnering with ML engineering teams to ship models and features.
Nice to have
- Prior experience as a software engineer, SRE, ML engineer, or data scientist.
- Experience productionizing ML models for operational or incident-management use cases.
Pay
$168,000 USD - $252,000 USD (base salary); $140,600 USD - $252,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin, Iceberg, ClickHouse, Tempo, Mimir, Grafana
AI focus
Drive AI-enabled anomaly detection and LLM-based root-cause summarization and triage assistance, including model requirements, evaluation, explainability, and feedback loops.
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