Senior Workday Manager

Guild

13h • $150,000 - $190,000

About The Position

The Senior Manager, People Tech provides expert-level configuration, administration, integration, and support for Workday and other People Systems in scope, ensuring reliable operation and continuous improvement. The role partners with stakeholders to gather requirements, deliver solutions, and ensure quality within the functional area.

The Senior Workday Manager owns system configuration, administration, and day-to-day operations; designs and maintains functionality; diagnoses and resolves issues; and delivers enhancements and releases. The role also recommends solutions based on stakeholder requirements, ensures quality through testing, identifies process and automation improvements, and stays current on system updates and releases.

Requirements

• At least 5–7 years of experience configuring, administering, and supporting one or more enterprise business systems within a functional area.
• A proven track record of leading improvement projects with measurable results in operational efficiency or service quality.
• Strong understanding of business processes and the ability to translate requirements into scalable system configurations.
• Experience leading and developing a small team, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Knowledge of SOC II compliance and experience supporting internal and external audits with access and change controls.
• Knowledge of Agile or other iterative project management methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Own the configuration, administration, and day-to-day operation of systems, ensuring reliability, data integrity, and alignment with business processes.
• Design, configure, and maintain system functionality.
• Diagnose and resolve system issues and deliver enhancements and releases for systems in scope.
• Partner with stakeholders to gather requirements and recommend solutions within the functional area.
• Ensure solution quality through testing.
• Identify and implement process and automation improvements within the functional area.
• Stay current on system updates and releases.

Benefits

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser, with Kaiser currently available only in California and Colorado due to coverage limitations.
• Access to a 401(k).
• Vacation policy.
• Eight days of fully paid sick leave.
• Family-friendly benefits, including parental leave, a two-week ramp-up period following a leave of six weeks or more, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility benefits, and caregiving benefits.
• Wellness benefits, including free and low-cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services.
• Education benefits and tuition assistance.
• Stock options.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed