State Street Corporation

Head of GHR Technology - Vice President

State Street Corporation • $115K — $216K *
Princeton, NJ 08540In-Person
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12-15+ years in technology leadership, preferably in HR or corporate functions.
  • Experience managing large global application portfolios with complex requirements.
  • Strong knowledge of HR systems, integrations, and data privacy.
  • Profiicient in identity/access management and operational compliance.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead global technology teams and vendors effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the GHR Technology strategy with alignment to HR and enterprise goals.
  • Own a global HR application portfolio of approximately 160 applications.
  • Drive simplification and rationalization of the HR tech landscape.
  • Oversee the execution of key transformations and deliverables.
  • Ensure stable operations for Workday and over 160 HR applications.
  • Maintain compliance with enterprise standards and lead cybersecurity initiatives.
  • Act as a strategic partner to HR leadership, enhancing decision-making through improved transparency.

Benefits

  • 401K retirement savings plan with company match.
  • Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and family care.
  • Access to Employee Assistance Program for support.
  • Eligibility for performance-based incentive compensation.
Full Job Description
Head of GHR Technology - Vice President

Corporate Functions Technology

Reports to: Managing Director, Corporate Functions Technology

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

Technology Strategy & Portfolio Ownership
  • Define and execute the GHR Technology strategy aligned with HR business priorities and enterprise technology direction.
  • Own the end-to-end global HR application portfolio (~97 applications), spanning core HR, payroll, benefits, talent, analytics, and employee experience platforms.
  • Drive simplification, standardization, and rationalization of the HR application landscape where feasible.

Delivery & Book of Work Execution
  • Own delivery of the key transformation and important deliverables.
  • Experience building and deploying GHR AI & Intranet related capabilities across a large global company.
  • Ensure disciplined intake, prioritization, dependency management, and transparent delivery execution.
  • Improve speed, predictability, and quality of HR technology delivery.

Platform Operations & Resilience
  • Ensure stable, resilient operation of Workday and 97+ HR applications and 180+ integrations supporting payroll, benefits, time, and security-critical processes.
  • Own production support, release management, lifecycle management, and vendor performance.
  • Strengthen business continuity and resiliency for critical HR services globally.

Risk, Cyber & Compliance
  • Ensure HR applications comply with enterprise standards for ISRMP, ARB, IAM (SailPoint), MFA, CMK, SIEM, data privacy, and resiliency.
  • Lead remediation of cybersecurity and compliance gaps across the HR portfolio.
  • Maintain continuous audit and regulatory readiness in partnership with Risk, Audit, and Cyber teams.

Business Partnership & Stakeholder Alignment
  • Act as a strategic technology partner to HR leadership globally.
  • Improve roadmap transparency, prioritization clarity, and stakeholder alignment to enable faster decision-making.
  • Clearly communicate delivery risks, constraints, and trade-offs.

People, Vendors & Financial Management
  • Lead a global GHR Technology organization, including internal teams and strategic vendors.
  • Build future-ready capabilities across engineering, integration, data, platform ownership, and operations.
  • Own vendor governance, licensing, and financial oversight across the GHR Technology portfolio.

Experience & Competencies
  • 12-15+ years of progressive technology leadership experience supporting large-scale enterprise platforms, preferably HR or corporate functions.
  • Demonstrated experience managing large, global application portfolios with complex regulatory and operational requirements.
  • Strong understanding of HR systems, integrations, data privacy, and identity/access management.
  • Proven people leadership experience managing global technology teams and vendors.
  • Ability to operate effectively in a highly matrixed, regulated environment and influence senior business leaders.


Salary Range:
$115,000 - $216,250 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home.

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Learn more about State Street Corporation
Size
39,335 employees
Market Cap
$28.4 billion
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Net Income
$2.4 billion
Founded
1792
5 Year Trend
-4.9%
NASDAQ
STT
* Ladders Estimates

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