Director, People Technology

Chobani•Frisco, TX

About The Position

The Director, People Technology is the technology lead for Chobani’s People Team and is accountable for the strategy, roadmap, delivery, and performance of its People technology ecosystem. This hands-on builder role sets direction while working alongside the team to develop practical, scalable solutions and translate emerging technology into business value. The Director leads the People Technology team and partners with IT, Information Security, the People Service Center, Payroll, People Analytics, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Procurement, business leaders, and external partners. The role owns the technology experience across the employee lifecycle and serves as product and portfolio owner for SAP SuccessFactors and related platforms. It sets strategy and governance; guides platform design, configuration, integrations, testing, releases, adoption, support, and continuous improvement; and ensures systems, data, workflows, access, and controls support accurate operations and compliance. The Director also leads the People Technology workstream in enterprise transformation initiatives, manages vendor relationships and technology evaluations, and builds and develops a high-performing team.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive experience in HR technology, HR systems, product management, or related People functions, including significant leadership responsibility in a complex organization.
7+ years leading teams, major HR technology initiatives, or enterprise platform portfolios across strategy, delivery, governance, and stakeholder outcomes.
Deep strategic experience leading SAP SuccessFactors and broader People Technology ecosystems, with hands-on platform expertise sufficient to guide solution design, challenge configuration decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and lead technical teams and partners.
Demonstrated success building or materially improving an HR technology ecosystem, rather than simply maintaining one.
Experience selecting, implementing, integrating, optimizing, and retiring technology across a broader HR platform portfolio.
Ability to influence senior leaders, translate business needs into technology decisions, and communicate complex tradeoffs clearly.
Experience leading cross-functional transformation with People, IT, Security, Payroll, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Procurement, and external partners.
Strong knowledge of HR data governance, privacy, security, controls, audit requirements, and records retention.
Experience with Jira Service Management, ServiceNow, or a similar service-management platform.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI-enabled HR tools and workflow automation.
Experience with payroll and timekeeping integrations, including ADP or UKG.

Responsibilities

Own the technology experience across the employee lifecycle, ensuring People platforms are intuitive, connected, scalable, and designed around employee, manager, and People Team needs.
Define and deliver a multi-year People technology strategy and roadmap aligned with People Team and business priorities.
Assess the technology ecosystem, identify gaps and opportunities, and recommend whether to build, buy, optimize, integrate, or retire solutions.
Monitor market trends, emerging platforms, AI, and automation, and translate relevant developments into pilots, investments, and roadmap decisions.
Establish intake, prioritization, and governance for enhancements and new requests, balancing value, risk, stability, technical debt, and capacity.
Develop business cases and executive recommendations that clearly communicate outcomes, tradeoffs, dependencies, cost, and risk.
Serve as product and portfolio owner for People Technology, including SAP SuccessFactors and platforms supporting the employee lifecycle.
Set direction and ensure effective delivery across platform design, configuration, integrations, testing, releases, adoption, support, and continuous improvement.
Work alongside the team on critical initiatives and complex issues by shaping solutions, reviewing configurations and testing, removing barriers, and supporting stabilization.
Partner with IT to strengthen integrations, monitoring, data flows, and root-cause resolution across the technology environment.
Ensure foundation data, organizational structures, workflows, permissions, and configurations support accurate operations, reporting, analytics, and downstream systems.
Establish and govern the People Technology support model, including support tiers, handoffs, service expectations, escalation paths, and accountability with the People Support Center.
Lead the People Technology workstream for enterprise initiatives, including organizational change, acquisitions, international expansion, workforce transformation, and major system implementations.
Challenge existing processes and assumptions, simplifying and redesigning work before introducing technology or customization.
Embed change management into delivery by aligning stakeholders, assessing impacts, preparing users, and driving sustained adoption.
Establish governance, data ownership, controls, access management, and decision rights in partnership with relevant People and enterprise functions.
Ensure platforms and processes meet privacy, security, audit, records-retention, SOX, and other applicable requirements.
Lead technology evaluations and RFPs; manage vendor roadmaps, performance, contracts, budgets, renewals, risk, and value realization.
Build, coach, and develop a high-performing People Technology team with clear ownership and strong product, technical, and customer capabilities.
Set priorities and expectations while staying close to the work to pressure-test decisions, solve problems, and help the team deliver.
Create a culture of curiosity, experimentation, partnership, accountability, and disciplined execution.

Benefits

Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Disability insurance
Health savings account
Flexible spending accounts
Tuition reimbursement
401(k) match of 100% on up to 5% of eligible pay
Fertility assistance
Childcare assistance
12 weeks of parental leave at full pay after six months of continuous employment
Employee assistance program
Fitness discounts
Wellness reimbursement
On-site gym access at certain locations
120 hours of paid time off
11 paid holidays
Paid volunteer time off
Bonus
Equity