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10 Workday product leaders
These ten product leaders hold or have held chief product officer, president, vice president and senior director roles at Workday, across AI, analytics, financials, payroll and integration products. A reader can learn from them how a large HR and finance software company sets product strategy and runs product management for its main suites.
Professionals to explore
01—10Aidan Mitchell
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Product Management · Workday
Vice President, Product Management at Workday since November 2021; his profile says he leads the product managers who own the reporting and analytics tools at the core of Workday's HCM and Financial Management suite. At Workday he was also Senior Director Product Management (2017–2021) and Director Product Management (2016–2017).
David Somers
LinkedInExperience: Chief Product Officer · Workday
Former Chief Product Officer at Workday (2024–2025). At Workday he was also Group General Manager, OCHRO Products (2021–2024) and GM, Talent Optimization (2019–2021). Somers has been a Partner at Storm Ventures since September 2025, where his profile says he invests at the intersection of AI, HRTech, FinTech and the future of work.
Gerrit Kazmaier
LinkedInExperience: President Product & Technology · Workday
President Product & Technology at Workday since March 2025, a role listed in the Product department. Kazmaier was Vice President & General Manager for Database, Data Analytics & Looker at Google from 2021 to 2025, and at SAP was President, SAP HANA & Analytics (2020–2021) and Executive Vice President, SAP HANA & Analytics (2018–2020).
Jen Cozier
LinkedInExperience: VP Payroll Product Management · Workday
VP Payroll Product Management at Workday since January 2024. Cozier was Senior Vice President, Product at Exactera from 2020 to 2024, Vice President of Product Management, Financial & Risk Management Solutions Division at Fiserv from 2019 to 2020, and Senior Director of Product Management at Paycor from 2015 to 2017.
Jonathan Boyne
LinkedInExperience: Sr Director, Product Management · Workday
Sr Director, Product Management at Workday since May 2024; his profile says the role covers Workday's Integration Platform, including the integration developer and analyst experience, the technology platform and delivered solutions. At Workday he was also Director, Product Management (2021–2024) and Senior Manager, Product Management (2019–2021).
Krupa Natarajan
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Product Management · Workday
Vice President of Product Management at Workday since May 2026, where her profile says she leads Workday Data Cloud and defines the intelligence platform for agentic AI, enterprise analytics and decision intelligence. She has also held the role Head of Product, Prism Analytics Data Platform at Workday since December 2020, and was Head of Product at Paxata from 2016 to 2020.
Mark Rosenberg
LinkedInExperience: VP, Product Management - Financials & Spend Products · Workday
VP, Product Management - Financials & Spend Products at Workday since October 2024, after serving as VP, Product Management - Financials Products there from 2022 to 2024. Rosenberg was also Senior Director, Product Management - Financials Pay Applications at Workday (2019–2020) and VP of Product Management - Solutions at Workiva (2020–2022).
Reyhan Jhaver
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, AI Product Management · Workday
Vice President, AI Product Management at Workday since November 2024. At Workday Jhaver was also Vice President, Product Strategy (2022–2024), Senior Director, Product Strategy (2019–2022) and Director of Product Management (2018–2019), and was Co-founder, VP of Product at Rallyteam from 2015 to 2018.
Suresh Bala
LinkedInExperience: VP Product Management · Workday
Former VP Product Management at Workday (2018–2022) and VP Industry Products there from 2022 to 2023; his profile says he led product management for a $400M+ ARR product at Workday. Bala was VP Product Management at Adaptive Insights from 2016 to 2018 and has been Chief Product and Technology Officer at Cube since 2024.
Vijay Venugopal
LinkedInExperience: VP Product Management, AI Agents · Workday
VP Product Management, AI Agents at Workday since July 2025; his profile describes the role as VP of Product for Workday AI Agent Factory. He was Director Product Management, AI Data Analytics, Google Cloud at Google (2024–2025) and Vice President Of Product Management at ThoughtSpot (2021–2024).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's product area to your question, since payroll, financials, analytics and AI agents each have different customers and constraints. For company-wide strategy, start with the most senior product executives, and for day-to-day roadmap practice, pick a leader who runs that product line today.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a software company decide which AI features to build into an existing HR or finance product?
- 02How do product managers balance requests from large enterprise customers against a shared platform roadmap?
- 03What changes in product management when a company moves from a single suite to many product lines?
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