Suraj Sinha
Break into Product Management | Ex-AWS & Workday Leader | 18 Coached
Studied at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hiring Manager at Workday
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Suraj's Offerings
Custom hourly · $75/hr
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Suraj’s Product Management Qualifications
Experience level: Group Product Manager
10+ people coached for Product Management
Hello and welcome to my profile! With a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and extensive experience in product management at top tech companies like Workday and AWS, I am well-equipped to guide you on your product management journey. As a Senior Manager in Product & Technology Strategy at Workday, I have honed my skills in understanding customer needs and enhancing user experiences. Over the years, I've successfully coached 18 individuals, helping them break into and excel in the competitive field of product management. Whether you're looking to refine your product strategy skills or navigate the complexities of a tech career, I'm here to help. Let's connect and chart your path to success! My time at Amazon sharpened my expertise in aligning product strategies with Amazon's high standards of operational excellence and customer focus. I’m passionate about helping you achieve clarity in roadmap planning, stakeholder alignment, and agile execution, empowering you to build products that truly meet customer needs and stand the test of time.
Suraj can help with:
Behavioral Interview Prep
Execution
LinkedIn Review
Product Case Interview Prep
Promotion Strategy
Resume Review
Salary Negotiation
Skill Building
Strategy & Vision
About Suraj
Suraj Sinha is a product and analytics leader at Workday, where he leads product analytics and data strategy within the Research, Analytics & Design organization. He is responsible for building governed data foundations that support product decision-making, executive reporting, and AI-driven measurement across the company. His work centers on creating clarity in complex environments — aligning teams on metrics, defining sources of truth, and turning product usage data into decisions that drive real business impact. Prior to Workday, Suraj was a product leader at Amazon, where he worked on Amazon Managed Services. In that role, he led product strategy and execution for enterprise cloud customers, partnering closely with engineering and operations teams to deliver scalable infrastructure solutions. His experience at Amazon shaped his approach to product leadership: clear writing, strong ownership, high standards, and disciplined decision-making. Across both organizations, Suraj has built and led cross-functional teams, written executive narratives, launched data platforms, and driven alignment across product, engineering, and analytics. He coaches product managers and aspiring leaders on strategic thinking, executive communication, experimentation, and operating effectively in high-performance environments.
Why do I coach?
I coach because most talented people do not struggle with intelligence or work ethic. They struggle with clarity. Clarity on how to think strategically. Clarity on how to communicate at the executive level. Clarity on what actually gets rewarded inside high performance organizations. I have worked in environments like Amazon and Workday where the bar is high and ambiguity is constant. Over time, I learned that progression is not just about doing good work. It is about defining the right problems, aligning stakeholders, writing clearly, and making decisions with conviction. Those skills are not always taught, but they can absolutely be developed. I coach to help people accelerate that learning curve. Whether you are trying to break into product, level up to senior leadership, improve your executive presence, or navigate complex organizational dynamics, my goal is simple. Help you think more clearly, operate more deliberately, and communicate in a way that drives outcomes. There is nothing more rewarding than watching someone go from “I think this is right” to “I know how to approach this.” That confidence changes careers.
Work Experience
Director, Product Management
Workday
May 2025 - Present
Hiring Manager
I drive Workday’s data product strategy across Product Management, Data Science, and Engineering, leading cross-functional teams to deliver governed, scalable, and user-centric data platforms and products. My focus is on building systems that enable smarter, faster, and more reliable decision-making both internally at Workday and for our global customer base. This includes: • Internal platforms that embed analytics into the fabric of the company, strengthening a culture of evidence-based decision-making. • Customer-facing data products that empower organizations to design richer, more personalized Workday experiences for millions of end users. By unifying telemetry, behavioral, and sentiment data with enterprise context, I help Workday and its customers unlock the full value of data at scale, turning complexity into clarity and insights into measurable business outcomes.
Senior Manager, Product & Technology Strategy
Workday
April 2024 - May 2025
Hiring Manager
Manager, Product
Workday
November 2023 - April 2024
Hiring Manager
Group Manager. Managing Principal Researchers and Data Scientists to better understand the voice of the customer and enhance the Workday User Experience.
Principal Product Manager
Workday
August 2023 - November 2023
Technical Product Manager
AWS
November 2021 - May 2022
Amazon Managed Services (AMS) AWS Managed Services (AMS) helps you adopt AWS at scale and operate more efficiently and securely. We leverage standard AWS services and offer guidance and execution of operational best practices with specialized automations, skills, and experience that are contextual to your environment and applications. AMS provides proactive, preventative, and detective capabilities that raise the operational bar and help reduce risk without constraining agility, allowing you to focus on innovation.
senior technical product manager
Workday
October 2021 - November 2021
Technical Product Manager
Workday
October 2020 - October 2021
Workday Extend (Formerly Workday Cloud Platform) Services - Metrics & Monitoring
Software Engineering Intern
Workday
May 2017 - August 2017
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering
2014 - 2018
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