Workday Onboarding Experience and Journey Lead Must Have Technical/Functional Skills • 812+ years of experience in: • HR Technology • Workday (Core HR / Onboarding) • Experience design / journey transformation • Strong, hands-on understanding of: • Workday business processes and onboarding capabilities • Experience in: • Journey mapping and service design • Cross-functional program delivery • Ability to balance: • Experience design vision • Platform constraints and technical feasibility Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills Roles & Responsibilities Role Summary We are seeking a Workday Onboarding Experience & Journey Lead to reimagine and elevate the end-to-end onboarding experience across our HR technology ecosystem. This role is focused on transforming onboarding from a set of disconnected processes into a seamless, intuitive, and high-impact employee journey. The individual will combine deep Workday knowledge, experience design thinking, and cross-functional collaboration to identify friction points, redesign workflows, and deliver a significantly improved onboarding experience. This is not a traditional UX design role. It is a journey-led, product-oriented role focused on experience transformation within the realities of Workday and integrated systems. Key Responsibilities Onboarding Journey Ownership • Lead the redesign of the end-to-end onboarding journey: • Offer acceptance Pre-boarding Day 1 First 90 days • Map current-state vs future-state experiences across: • Employee • Hiring manager • HR / operations • Identify key moments that matter and define target experience outcomes •Experience Design within Workday • Translate experience vision into Workday-enabled solutions • Work deeply within: • Workday onboarding frameworks • Business process configurations • Notifications, tasks, and workflows • Ensure experience design is practical, scalable, and aligned with platform capabilities •Friction Identification & Simplification • Diagnose pain points such as: • Too many steps / handoffs • Lack of clarity for new hires • Redundant or manual processes • Poor manager enablement • Simplify workflows and eliminate unnecessary complexity • Drive automation-first and self-service-first thinking •Cross-Functional Experience Design • Collaborate across: • Recruiting (handoff from TA to onboarding) • Core HR • IT provisioning • Learning / compliance • Payroll / benefits (where applicable) • Ensure onboarding is not siloed but connected across systems and teams •Digital Experience & Integration Thinking • Design how onboarding experience surfaces across: • Workday (core system) • HR Assist / chatbot layer (if applicable) • Email / notifications / manager tools • Ensure a consistent and cohesive experience layer, even across multiple systems •Prototyping & Iteration • Create: • Journey maps • Experience blueprints • Low-fidelity prototypes (flows, interactions) • Run working sessions with stakeholders to iterate on solutions quickly • Validate designs with real user feedback where possible •Measurement & Continuous Improvement • Define success metrics such as: • New hire experience score • Time-to-productivity • Task completion rates • Manager satisfaction • Establish a continuous improvement loop for onboarding Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and coordinate with Offshore and Onshore teams Education Bachelors in Engineering Salary Range: $120000 - $160000 a year #LI-JH1 •Experience Design within Workday • Translate experience vision into Workday-enabled solutions • Work deeply with in: • Workday onboarding frameworks • Business process configurations • Notifications, tasks, and workflows • Ensure experience design is practical, scalable, and aligned with platform capabilities •Friction Identification & Simplification • Diagnose pain points such as: • Too many steps / handoffs • Lack of clarity for new hires • Redundant or manual processes • Poor manager enablement • Simplify workflows and eliminate unnecessary complexity • Drive automation-first and self-service-first thinking •Cross-Functional Experience Design • Collaborate across: • Recruiting (handoff from TA to onboarding) • Core HR • IT provisioning • Learning / compliance Education Bachelors in Engineering Salary Range: $120000 - $160000 a year #LI-JH1