Product Manager
Chelsea
Layton
Product @ Workday. Currently building with Cursor and Claude Code.
Projects
via GitHub
A selection of things I've built or contributed to. Most are side projects, experiments, or tools I made because the problem annoyed me enough.
Experience
Senior Product Manager — Consumer Candidate Experience
Workday
- Drove 101% YoY growth for Candidate Experience, the fastest-growing SKU in the oCHRO portfolio ($32M ARR product line).
- Delivered an integrated conversational AI experience enabling 80M MAU to search and apply for jobs.
- Defined GTM strategy for OpenAI App SDK integration leading to FY27 launch; created requirements for AEO to surface job postings to LLM channels (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude).
- Delivered multi-channel campaign automation (email, SMS, WhatsApp, landing pages) with personalized multi-modal content to scale outreach to 10M monthly users.
Aug 2024 — Present
Senior Product Manager — Architecture & Product Experience Strategic Programs
Workday
- Led product diligence for 3 acquisitions, resulting in 2 closings including HiredScore AI ($52M ARR product line).
- Assessed product-market fit and 12-month integration roadmap for HiredScore, scrutinizing AI and Gen AI capabilities and identifying first integration touchpoints.
- Analyzed 19 prior acquisitions to surface cross-functional failures and define improved processes across diligence, integration model, and GTM strategy.
Dec 2022 — Aug 2024
Senior Product Manager — UI Platform Consumer Experience
Workday
- Led a 30+ person multi-disciplinary team of PMs, engineers, research & design, and data analysts overhauling strategic user journeys for a $4B revenue HR and Finance suite.
- Delivered zero-to-one intuitive UIs for onboarding, navigation, and information architecture for 70M MAU on the Absence product.
Apr 2021 — Dec 2022
Product Manager — UI Platform Consumer Experience
Workday
- Migrated 1,700+ customers to Workday's next-gen UX for the Recruiting Career Site, connecting 18M daily candidates to Fortune 500 companies; defended $200M+ ARR product.
- Launched a new Career Site application flow UI, sustaining 97% customer renewal rate.
- Reduced candidate application completion time by shipping a consumer-grade full-stack experience while maintaining 99.7% uptime SLA.
Apr 2019 — Apr 2021
Senior Associate Product Manager — UI Platform Design System
Workday
- Delivered a reusable React component library and Design System across 6 product pillars and 2 acquisitions, slashing engineering time from months to days.
- Achieved 100% Design System and component library adoption across all product pillars and acquisitions.
Aug 2017 — Apr 2019