--- title: Workday’s CTO traded his C-suite title for a technical... description: Peter Bailis, who joined Workday as CTO in May 2025, has left the company and taken a member of technical staff role at Anthropic, where he will focus on... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/workday-s-cto-traded-his-c-suite-title-for-a-technical-staff-role-at-anthropic-yjtqcqqiy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Workday’s CTO traded his C-suite title for a technical staff role at Anthropic | daily.dev og:description: Peter Bailis, who joined Workday as CTO in May 2025, has left the company and taken a member of technical staff role at Anthropic, where he will focus on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/workday-s-cto-traded-his-c-suite-title-for-a-technical-staff-role-at-anthropic-yjtqcqqiy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yJTQcqqiY.png og:image:alt: Workday’s CTO traded his C-suite title for a technical staff role at Anthropic og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Workday’s CTO traded his C-suite title for a technical staff role at Anthropic **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Peter Bailis, who joined Workday as CTO in May 2025, has left the company and taken a member of technical staff role at Anthropic, where he will focus on reinforcement learning engineering. The move trades C-suite authority for direct technical proximity to frontier AI development. Bailis brings deep enterprise software expertise — from Google Cloud AI products to Workday's agentic AI strategy — at a moment when Anthropic is actively building HR applications that compete with Workday's core business. The hire reflects a broader pattern of senior enterprise tech executives choosing individual contributor roles at AI labs, and signals Anthropic's accelerating push into enterprise product development, backed by a $100M partner network, a Claude marketplace, and enterprise customers now representing ~80% of its revenue. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@khauma** · 0 upvotes > interesting... ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again](https://daily.dev/posts/already-rich-already-successful-why-the-last-wave-of-tech-winners-is-grinding-again-x5zrthmxn) · TechCrunch · 32 upvotes · 5 comments - [Claude Cowork comes to web and mobile](https://daily.dev/posts/claude-cowork-comes-to-web-and-mobile-ffmv51wwr) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Anthropic’s Claude Tag aims to turn workplace AI from a personal assistant into a teammate](https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-s-claude-tag-aims-to-turn-workplace-ai-from-a-personal-assistant-into-a-teammate-jbzs4iqhn) · InfoWorld · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#reinforcement-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/reinforcement-learning), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/workday-s-cto-traded-his-c-suite-title-for-a-technical-staff-role-at-anthropic-yjtqcqqiy) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Workday’s CTO traded his C-suite title for a technical staff role at Anthropic","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/workday-s-cto-traded-his-c-suite-title-for-a-technical-staff-role-at-anthropic-yjtqcqqiy","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/workday-s-cto-traded-his-c-suite-title-for-a-technical-staff-role-at-anthropic-yjtqcqqiy"},"datePublished":"2026-04-09T15:19:46.301Z","dateModified":"2026-04-09T15:20:09.518Z","description":"Peter Bailis, who joined Workday as CTO in May 2025, has left the company and taken a member of technical staff role at Anthropic, where he will focus on...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6e621848b99d41558af126b12897be69?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6e621848b99d41558af126b12897be69?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/workday-s-cto-traded-his-c-suite-title-for-a-technical-staff-role-at-anthropic-yjtqcqqiy","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"ai,ai-agents,reinforcement-learning,anthropic","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Workday’s CTO traded his C-suite title for a technical staff role at Anthropic"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/workday-s-cto-traded-his-c-suite-title-for-a-technical-staff-role-at-anthropic-yjtqcqqiy","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"interesting…","datePublished":"2026-04-09T21:06:49.150Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/yJTQcqqiY#c-JHVymvVGU","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Kahlil Wallace","url":"https://daily.dev/khauma","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--QvppE9Ip--/f_auto/v1767378558/avatars/avatar_7eQFeSQRDx0muV3n92gxT?_a=BAMAK+ZW0"}}]} ```