People Operations & Employee Lifecycle Specialist

Sandisk • Milpitas, CA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

As a People Operations & Employee Lifecycle Specialist, you will design, enable, and deliver people processes that power a high-quality, compliant, and scalable employee experience across the full employee lifecycle. You will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including People Business Partners, People Operations, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, Total Rewards, Payroll, and Information Technology/HRIS, to translate business needs into practical workflows, eliminate manual work through automation, and drive data integrity and operational excellence. This role blends strategic people-process ownership with hands-on execution, with a particular emphasis on disciplined lifecycle operations for onboarding and offboarding/termination activities.
This role is ideal for a bold, action-oriented change agent who thrives in fast-paced environments and brings strong problem-solving, systems thinking, and connector instincts. Through high-impact collaboration and delivery across the people portfolio, you will help advance our people operations processes where people leaders are empowered, teams thrive, and the employee experience is meaningfully elevated.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, IT, Business Administration, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of Workday and ServiceNow experience with business process and functional expertise.
• Strong project management capabilities with a track record of driving mid-sized Workday and ServiceNow projects from requirements gathering through deployment.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including partnering effectively with senior HR leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Proven ability to thrive amid ambiguity and competing priorities, delivering results on multiple complex projects with minimal supervision.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities with the ability to translate business needs into scalable solutions.
• Passion for operational excellence, optimizing processes, creating comprehensive documentation, and driving efficiency.
• Experience in HR Operations, People Operations, or HR Business Partnering; demonstrated experience with formal process mapping and documentation.
• Lean, Kaizen, Six Sigma, or operational excellence experience (certification or equivalent hands-on work).

Responsibilities

• Design, standardize, and continuously improve end-to-end global operational processes across the employee lifecycle, including hiring, onboarding, employee changes, and offboarding.
• Own and ensure disciplined execution of termination processing, including manager guidance, access deprovisioning coordination, last-day logistics, exit documentation, and statutory/compliance requirements by location.
• Drive continuous improvement across people operational processes using structured project and process management methodologies (e.g., Lean/Six Sigma) and maintain documentation standards to ensure lifecycle processes meet policy, regulatory, and data integrity requirements.
• Identify opportunities for automation, system optimization, and AI-enabled capabilities to improve accuracy, efficiency, and scalability; partner with HR Technology to implement workflow enhancements, integrations, and reporting solutions.
• Standardize documentation, training materials, and change adoption plans to ensure sustainable process execution; create process documents, training materials, and work instructions for People Operations teams and People Leaders.
• Implement and monitor operational metrics, dashboards, and performance indicators to measure data quality, compliance effectiveness, service delivery, and process efficiency; use insights (ticket volume, recurring issues, employee feedback) to prioritize improvements.
• Maintain clear documentation standards and audit-ready processes across all People Support; proactively identify and implement process improvements that strengthen reliability and reduce risk.
• Operationalize people policies through process workflows, approvals, and controls; partner closely with People Experience, Legal, Business People Partners, and regional stakeholders to ensure compliant execution.
• Draft and revise HR policies as requested, ensuring clarity, alignment with organizational values, and consistency across global contexts; translate updates into accessible systems, guidance, and training.
• Support communication and change-management efforts related to policy and organizational processes.

Benefits

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees