Responsibilities:Platform Strategy, Governance & Product Ownership:- Serve as the Workday Product Owner and platform leader for Recruiting and Learning, owning the functional roadmap, enhancement backlog, release priorities, and continuous improvement strategy.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, HR Operations, IT, Compliance, and business leaders to align Workday capabilities with enterprise talent goals, operational priorities, and compliance requirements.
- Evaluate new Workday features, emerging capabilities, and platform innovations to determine business value, adoption readiness, risk, and implementation priority.
- Define success metrics and monitor platform performance, including recruiting cycle efficiency, candidate experience, learning completion, compliance visibility, system adoption, support trends, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Workday Recruiting Leadership:- Lead the design, optimization, and governance of Workday Recruiting capabilities, including requisitions, candidate management, job postings, interview processes, offer management, dispositioning, communications, approvals, templates, and recruiting security.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition leadership to improve recruiter, hiring manager, and candidate experiences through streamlined workflows, automation, data quality, reporting, and process standardization.
- Guide complex configuration decisions and ensure recruiting business processes are scalable, compliant, auditable, and aligned with upstream workforce planning and downstream hire, onboarding, payroll, and reporting processes.
- Oversee issue resolution, root cause analysis, enhancement prioritization, testing, and stakeholder communication for Workday Recruiting production support and projects.
Workday Learning Leadership:- Lead the design, optimization, and governance of Workday Learning capabilities, including learning catalogs, courses, lessons, programs, campaigns, assignments, enrollments, certifications, completion tracking, reminders, and learner access.
- Partner with Learning and Development, Compliance, HR Operations, and business stakeholders to support required training, onboarding learning paths, professional development, role-based learning, and compliance reporting.
- Ensure Workday Learning processes support accurate completion tracking, regulatory readiness, manager visibility, learner engagement, and reliable reporting for required and optional learning.
Release Management, Delivery & Operational Excellence:- Participate in Workday bi-annual release planning, impact analysis, regression testing, feature evaluation, deployment readiness, and adoption activities for Recruiting and Learning.
- Manage enhancement delivery from intake through implementation, including requirements definition, solution design, configuration oversight, testing strategy, change impact assessment, documentation, and post-production support.
- Partner with IT, integration teams, vendors, and managed service providers to ensure reliable data flows, secure integrations, timely issue resolution, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
- Maintain operational standards, support processes, knowledge articles, configuration documentation, testing assets, and controls to ensure platform stability and audit readiness.
Stakeholder Engagement, Reporting & Team Leadership:- Serve as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor for Workday Recruiting and Learning, providing strategic guidance, solution recommendations, and decision support to functional and technical stakeholders.
- Develop dashboards, reports, scorecards, and insights that support executive visibility, data-driven decision-making, compliance monitoring, and continuous improvement across Recruiting and Learning.
- Engage in cross-functional meetings, design sessions, prioritization discussions, stakeholder updates, training, and change management activities to promote alignment and adoption.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:- Advanced functional and configuration knowledge of Workday Recruiting and Workday Learning, with the ability to lead solution design, governance, optimization, and issue resolution across both areas.
- Strong product ownership and platform management skills, including roadmap development, backlog prioritization, release planning, stakeholder alignment, and value realization.
- Ability to translate Talent Acquisition and Learning and Development strategies into scalable Workday solutions that improve user experience, operational efficiency, compliance, reporting, and data integrity.
- Strong understanding of recruiting lifecycle processes, learning administration, compliance training, role-based security, business processes, integrations, reporting, calculated fields, and downstream HR dependencies.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, facilitate decision-making, manage competing priorities, and influence stakeholders at manager, director, and executive levels.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, define success measures, assess risks, and recommend actionable improvements.
- Knowledge of HR technology governance, data privacy, compliance requirements, audit readiness, change control, release management, and production support best practices.
- Excellent communication, documentation, training, and change management skills, with the ability to guide both technical and non-technical audiences.
EDUCATION (Required and/or Preferred):- Bachelor's degree, required
- Master's degree, preferred
FIELD OF STUDY:- Accounting
- Finance
- Human Resources
- Information Technology
WORK EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:- 5+ years of experience in HR technology, HRIS, or Workday platform support, with significant hands-on experience in Workday Recruiting and Workday Learning.
- 3+ years of experience leading Workday initiatives, platform enhancements, roadmap planning, release management, governance, or cross-functional HR technology projects.
- Proven experience with Workday configuration and serving as a product owner, functional lead, platform manager, or senior Workday subject matter expert for Recruiting, Learning, Talent, or related Workday HCM capabilities.
- Experience leading requirements gathering, solution design, configuration oversight, testing, stakeholder review, change management, deployment readiness, and post-production support.
- Experience with Workday security, business processes, reporting, dashboards, calculated fields, integrations, data validation, audit controls, and production support for Recruiting and Learning.
- Experience partnering with Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, HR Operations, IT, Compliance, Payroll, vendors, and business leaders to deliver scalable HR technology solutions.
- Experience with Workday reporting tools, creating and maintaining dashboards, and generating ad hoc reports.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to train and support users at all levels of the organization.
CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES:- Workday Recruiting, Workday Learning, Workday HCM, Workday Pro, or Workday Platform Administrator certification, preferred
PRIMARY LOCATION:SECONDARY LOCATION(S):- Lafayette, LA
- Traverse City, MI
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Pay Range:
110,591.00 - 163,704.00 USD annually
This range represents the anticipated base salary for this role. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance, including medical dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a company match, paid time off and holidays, professional development support, and employee wellness resources.
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