Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics are built with artificial intelligence and machine learning at the core to help organizations around the world embrace the future of work. Workday is used by more than 10,000 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

Industry: Software Development
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

Workday

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**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**

We’re the storytellers behind the Workday brand. The PR team is responsible for elevating and protecting Workday’s reputation with bold, opinionated, and differentiated storytelling that moves the business forward. We don’t just engage in conversations on the future of work – we shape them. Our goal is to make Workday widely recognized by external stakeholders as a leading voice on the future of work in the AI era.

**About The Role**

This is a role for someone who loves finding great stories - and finding new ways to tell them. As Senior PR Manager, you’ll build and lead industry and customer PR programs that showcase how Workday is making a real impact in the world. You’ll collaborate closely across teams, connect the dots, and bring fresh ideas to the table every day.

You’ll play a key role in shining a spotlight on the industries that matter most to us - healthcare, financial services, higher education, public sector, retail and hospitality, and beyond - showcasing the innovative, sometimes surprising, ways our customers are using Workday to reimagine how work gets done. If you’re energized by storytelling, media relations, problem solving, and working with smart, curious people who deeply care about making an impact, this role was built for you.

This role requires demonstrated experience juggling fast-paced programs, projects, and priorities from strategic planning through tactical execution.

**About You**

The ideal candidate will be a creative PR professional with real hustle, a sharp eye for news, who is proficient in the use of AI – someone who instinctively knows what will resonate and how to move fast when it matters. You’re an excellent writer and self-starter who builds strong, trusted relationships with journalists, influencers, and other communications stakeholders, while seamlessly partnering with executives and marketing teams. You’re just as comfortable setting PR strategy and shaping narratives as you are rolling up your sleeves to execute and land coverage.

**Responsibilities**

- Shape and run external communications that show how Workday is transforming industries in the AI era and how customers are doing meaningful, innovative work with our products.

- Build strong relationships with the media.

- Develop strategies and supporting programs that drive positive coverage highlighting Workday’s product innovation and customer impact stories.

- Partner with product marketing, industry marketing, and customer advocacy to develop narratives and messaging that can be applied across internal and external channels. This includes:

- Research into Workday’s product roadmap and working with key stakeholders to source industry-specific product news – both near and long term – that we want to drive awareness around.

- Identifying stories and examples of how Workday is responding to customers’ needs with new solutions that help them adapt to the changing world of work.

- Leading media programs around Workday-owned and industry and customer events.

- Work closely with customer PR teams to tell clear, engaging stories about how customers use Workday and the impact it has on their business.

- Represent the communications/PR team in cross-functional teams to ensure alignment around business objectives and to advance broader company initiatives.

**Basic Qualifications**

- 8-10+ years of public relations experience, preferably in enterprise software technology. Background in both in-house and agency is a plus.

- Demonstrated experience in building and scaling strategic PR programs aimed at targeted vertical industries.

- Strong experience working with business, trade, IT, and industry media outlets and reporters.

**Other Qualifications**

- Established relationships with industry trade, tech, and business media.

- Superb written and verbal communication skills.

- Demonstrated project management expertise.

- Strong command of AI tools and demonstrated experience in deploying them to strengthen storytelling.

- Ability to quickly understand technology and translate into public relations strategies, messaging, and compelling narratives.

- Experience creating content that reaches audiences across paid, earned, and owned channels.

- Ability to work independently, prioritize multiple tasks effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

- Strong interpersonal skills and proven track record in navigating and building strong relationships with cross-functional teams.

- Strategic thinking, problem solving, attention to detail, technical, and analytical skills.

- Both agency and in-house experience are preferred.

- Periodic travel is required.

**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

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $147,100 USD - $220,700 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $124,200 USD - $220,700 USD

**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.

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Senior Manager PR, Industry and Customer

Avathon, a leader in Industrial AI, extends the life of critical infrastructure while advancing the journey toward full autonomy. Avathon’s Industrial AI platform empowers commercial and government customers with scalable, secure, and value-driven solutions that enhance efficiency and resilience across heavy industry.

Industry: Software Development
Company Size: 201-500 employees

Avathon

**Who We Are & Why Join Us**

**Avathon ** is the leading Industrial AI autonomy platform, helping customers across heavy industries -- energy, mining, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, and logistics -- accelerate the journey toward autonomous operations. Our platform is built on a Computational Knowledge Graph foundation that contextualizes and connects operational data across siloed systems, bringing together time series, structured, unstructured, and machine vision data to power AI-driven applications in asset performance management, supply chain intelligence, visual AI, and global trade management. With capabilities spanning digital twins, normal behavior modeling, natural language processing, and computer vision, Avathon delivers real-time predictive intelligence and agentic decision-making at industrial scale.

**Cutting-Edge AI Innovation ** -- Join a team at the forefront of AI, developing groundbreaking solutions that shape the future. **High-Growth Environment ** -- Thrive in a fast-scaling startup where agility, collaboration, and rapid professional growth are the norm. **Meaningful Impact ** -- Work on AI-driven projects that drive real change across industries and improve lives.

Learn more at: avathon.com

**About The Role**

**Senior AI Engineer – Generative AI & LLMs**

At Avathon, we are building cutting-edge AI solutions that transform operations across asset-intensive industries such as Supply Chain, Logistics, Energy, Mining, Aerospace, and Industrial Manufacturing. As an AI Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and deploying scalable AI systems with a strong focus on Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and production-grade machine learning applications.

This role is ideal for someone with strong engineering depth who can bridge research and production—building robust AI platforms, optimizing LLM workflows, and delivering high-impact solutions across forecasting, route optimization, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and intelligent automation.

With 3–5 years of hands-on industry experience, you are expected to bring expertise in AI system design, ML engineering, LLM deployment, and scalable software development within fast-paced startup environments.

You Will

- Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI/ML systems with strong emphasis on Generative AI and LLM-powered applications

- Develop and optimize end-to-end LLM pipelines including RAG architectures, fine-tuning, prompt orchestration, evaluation, and observability

- Build scalable backend services and APIs for AI applications using modern engineering best practices

- Implement and productionize transformer-based models and GenAI workflows for enterprise use cases

- Design vector search systems, embedding pipelines, and retrieval frameworks for knowledge-intensive applications

- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Business teams to translate operational challenges into scalable AI solutions

- Drive experimentation, benchmarking, model evaluation, and performance optimization with scientific rigor

- Improve inference efficiency, latency optimization, cost management, and reliability of deployed AI systems

- Establish guardrails, hallucination detection, monitoring, and responsible AI practices for production deployments

- Contribute to MLOps workflows including CI/CD, model lifecycle management, observability, and cloud deployment

- Stay current with the latest advancements in LLMs, agentic systems, foundation models, and applied AI engineering

You'll Have

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related technical field

- 3–5 years of hands-on industry experience in AI Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, Applied AI, or related roles

- Strong experience building and deploying LLM-based applications in production environments

- Solid expertise with Python and modern AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar

- Strong understanding of transformer architectures, LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RAG systems, and vector databases

- Experience building scalable APIs and backend systems supporting AI workflows

- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

- Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design, debugging, performance optimization, and production reliability

- Experience with containerization, deployment pipelines, and collaborative engineering environments

- Strong analytical thinking, ownership mindset, and ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving startup environments

- Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with technical and business stakeholder

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Exposure to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, or embedding-based search systems

- Familiarity with LLM observability and evaluation tools (e.g., Langfuse, LangSmith, Arize Phoenix, Weights & Biases)

- Hands-on experience with practical LLM deployment -- prompt versioning, cost/latency tracking, guardrails, or hallucination detection

- Exposure to LLM evaluation frameworks (e.g., RAGAS, DeepEval) or LLM-as-judge evaluation patterns

- Basic understanding of MLOps practices and model lifecycle management

- Experience working on applied AI projects in academic, internship, or startup settings

- Interest in industrial AI and asset-intensive environments

- Industry exposure in one or more of the following domains: Mining, Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Supply Chain, Logistics, or Renewable Energy

Interview Process

As part of the interview process, you will be asked to complete a technical assessment.

Benefits & Perks

What are the benefits and perks at Avathon? Below are some highlights we offer to our U.S. full-time employees -- we'd love to connect and share more!

- Evolving culture with the opportunity to drive new ideas and technology

- Stock Option Grants

- Medical Coverage and Parental Leave Plans

- 401k with Employer Match

- Monthly Technology Allowance

- Newly renovated office space located near Pleasanton, CA -- including fully stocked beverage and snack areas

~~Contract and temporary roles are not eligible for the above benefits.~~

**Compensation**

**Pay Range: ** $110k - $130k salary annually. Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

**Location: ** This role is not remote. Candidates must be based in the Bay Area, CA and are expected to report to our Pleasanton office 5 days a week.

~~Avathon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.~~

~~Avathon is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us to discuss how we can assist you. ~~

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