Drimva

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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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)