Principal Partner Enablement Architect

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This role splits time across three areas: building and maintaining global flagship programs and academies (50%), integrating mission-critical GTM initiatives into role-based onboarding and curriculum with Functional Architects (35%), and keeping our partner learning library accurate and aligned with GCOE standards through analytics, feedback, and audits (15%).

While the role is primarily scoped as above, you will be responsible for working with our entire team to set a global partner enablement strategy and architecture; help shift towards AI-driven role-based learning, improve our partner onboarding and sales-track accreditations and lead partner GA readiness for new products and major releases.

Key Responsibilities (Swim Lanes & Core Actions)

• Flagship Curriculum Architecture & Design: Define the overall scope, high-level objectives, structured learning maps, and sequential learning paths for weeks/months-long global programs and academies across Partners.
• Program Owner & Readiness Co-Design: Partner extensively with Program Owner counterparts and Role Readiness counterparts to co-design and maintain high-impact curriculum tracks, ensuring seamless delivery and alignment with field metrics.
• Multi-Architect Collaboration: Collaborate actively with Product Architect and Functional Architects on critical business initiatives to support the build (if needed) and drive smooth curriculum integration.
• Content Governance & Quality Alignment: Provide strict content oversight across flagship programs; guide LXDs on content creation requirements, and integrate new materials into the existing catalog to prevent build in isolation.
• Global Cohort Performance & Analytics: Co-own and analyze Flagship Program Performance Dashboards in partnership with Program Owners; report cohort trends, ramp success, and quality markers during QBRs.

VISA Sponsorship is not available for this role

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in curriculum architecture, instructional design, or talent development in a large-scale global enterprise, ideally focused on external partners.
• 5+ years of experience managing global flagship enablement academies (such as sales onboarding, customer success academies, or technical partner academies) from strategy to delivery.
• 5+ years of experience in cross-functional collaboration with program managers, field enablement operations, and executive business leaders.
• 1+ years of experience applying enterprise AI solutions to manage and scale massive learning databases, tagging, and modular curriculum maps.

Other / Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Adult Learning, Educational Design, or related field.
• Expert-level stakeholder management and partnership skills, with a track record of building consensus between curriculum architects, program owners, and readiness teams.
• Advanced data analytics proficiency (Excel/Google Sheets including pivot tables, lookups, connected sheets) to analyze global cohort progression and performance metrics.
• Direct experience configuring complex sequential learning paths within modern learning tech: Workday Learning, Sana Learn, and agentic/AI tools (Notebook LM, Sana Agents, Hyperbound etc.)
• Certifications in program evaluation, instructional design, performance improvement, or specialized AI for L&D training.

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.

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