From ATS to AI Agents: Inside Workday’s AI Strategy for Talent Acquisition.

In the second episode of GenAI & HR season 2, Mouhidine Seiv, Founder and CEO of HrFlow.ai, sits down with Adam Godson, General Manager, Talent Acquisition Products at Workday. Adam leads strategy, innovation, and product execution for Workday Recruiting, Paradox, and HiredScore, and previously led Paradox before it joined Workday. That gives him a rare view of how these products are built and how they’re used day to day.

Adam breaks down the shift from applicant tracking systems to AI agents, and what it means in practice for recruiters, talent acquisition teams, and the wider business.

Adam will share with us:

• The Paradox story and the vision behind bringing Workday Recruiting, Paradox, and HiredScore together
• How Workday decides what to build, what to acquire, and where to partner, including the role of Workday Marketplace
• How the recruiter’s role is evolving, and where human judgment and relationships matter most
• Whether AI agents should be managed like employees, and who is accountable for their actions and results
• How fairness can be tested and demonstrated in AI-assisted recruiting
• How to measure the ROI of agents, and whether human performance is the right benchmark
• Which pricing models make sense: per user, usage, tasks completed, or outcomes delivered

Meet the speakers

Adam Godson (Guest)

General Manager, Talent Acquisition Products, Workday

Adam leads strategy, innovation, and execution for Workday’s AI-powered talent acquisition suite, which brings together Workday Recruiting, Paradox, and HiredScore. Before Workday acquired Paradox in 2025, he served as Paradox’s CEO, President, and Chief Product Officer, helping scale its conversational AI hiring platform with some of the world’s largest employers. Earlier in his career, he spent several years as CTO of Cielo, designing technology-driven recruiting solutions for global organisations.

Mouhidine Seiv (Host)

Founder and CEO, HrFlow.ai

Mouhidine is a data scientist and entrepreneur who founded HrFlow.ai in 2016. HrFlow.ai is the Hiring SuperIntelligence Frontier Lab that helps HR tech companies, staffing agencies, and recruitment firms automate their talent acquisition and talent management workflows with proprietary and custom AI models. Before launching the company, he spent two years in research at École Normale Supérieure and École Centrale Paris, where he also taught deep learning for natural language processing and recommendation systems. Today, he leads HrFlow.ai’s mission to build safe Hiring SuperIntelligence that helps reduce unemployment at a global scale.