Max Wessel
Senior Vice President of Product
About
Max Wessel serves as Senior Vice President of Product at Workday, with responsibility for the agentic evolution of Workday’s application portfolio across HR and finance. He brings extensive experience leading teams that have transformed enterprise software, scaled organizations from tens to thousands of people, modernized product strategies, and grown businesses from early-stage concepts into hundreds of millions in revenue.
Previously, Max served as CEO of Degreed, where he oversaw the introduction of agentic learning tools and the replatforming of its skills data management platform. Prior to Degreed, Max was an Executive Vice President at SAP, where he held a variety of product and business leadership roles. He led the launch of multiple business lines, including SAP’s education, process intelligence, and low-code development platforms.
Max holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Northwestern University.
