Senior Manager, Global HR Technology

As a Senior Manager, Global HR Technology – Compensation, you’ll be part of our Global HR Technology team working as a remote employee, leading the global HR technology strategy for Compensation and Advanced Compensation within Workday, supporting more than 43,000 employees across 60+ countries. Reporting to the Director, HR Technology, the Senior Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for the compensation technology portfolio, including oversight of business support resources, roadmap planning, and delivery execution.

The position partners closely with senior HR leaders, process owners, Centers of Excellence, Payroll, IT, and regional teams to align technology solutions with enterprise priorities. The ideal candidate brings deep Workday expertise, strong people leadership, and the ability to drive complex global initiatives that improve scalability, operational efficiency, data integrity, and employee experience.

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Provide strategic direction, partnership and operational leadership across the Compensation landscape. Establish priorities, allocate resources, develop team capabilities, and hold team members accountable for solution quality, stakeholder partnership, and delivery outcomes. Assess business needs and processes across the Workday ecosystem to define the functional technology vision. Partner with functional leads, process owners, and COE leaders to translate enterprise objectives into a cohesive strategy and prioritized portfolio.

Own the near- and long-term technology roadmap across supported functional areas. Evaluate emerging Workday capabilities, industry practices, business value, dependencies, and organizational capacity to recommend technology enhancements and sequence of delivery. Provide senior functional leadership for complex Workday solutions, with deep expertise in Core HCM, Compensation, Advanced Compensation, and Job Architecture. Guide architecture and configuration decisions to ensure solutions meet business requirements, support global consistency, allow for appropriate local variation, and remain maintainable over the long term.

Support technology delivery for global merit, bonus, and other compensation planning processes. Partner with Compensation leadership to translate program strategy into scalable system capabilities and ensure readiness for critical compensation cycles. Own request intake, prioritization, and delivery governance across strategic initiatives, enhancements, and operational needs. Resolve competing priorities, assess resource constraints, and communicate delivery commitments, risks, and decisions to senior stakeholders.

Identify and direct opportunities to streamline global Compensation processes through Workday functionality, automation, and standardization. Improve data integrity, reduce manual effort, and strengthen the effectiveness of ongoing operations. Lead complex initiatives across HR, Payroll, IT and regional teams. Build alignment on requirements, dependencies, decision ownership, and implementation approaches, ensuring solutions account for impacts across connected systems and processes. Support the business in the creation and execution of Test Scenarios and Expected Outcomes.

Evaluate the adoption and effectiveness of existing functionality to identify opportunities to maximize platform value. Assess new Workday capabilities and product direction to inform roadmap priorities and future business improvements. Oversee requirements definition, design, configuration, testing, implementation, and stabilization for portfolio initiatives. Ensure standards are adhered to for documentation, approvals, and change control for the team’s functional areas. Provide senior leadership with clear…