SoFi
Senior Manager, Workday HCM
San Francisco - CA; Seattle - WA; Cottonwood Heights - UT · Senior
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About the role
- At SoFi, Workday is a shared enterprise platform across HR and Finance, making this a highly cross-functional role.
Responsibilities
- Drive prioritization and execution of roadmap initiatives, balancing enhancements, technical debt, compliance, and innovation
- Support system enhancements and continuous improvement efforts to ensure scalability and usability
- Partner with HR, Finance, and IT stakeholders to translate business needs into effective system solutions
- Build strong, trusted relationships through consistent communication, transparency, and delivery
- Partner closely with HR and business leaders, understanding their functional priorities and proactively recommending how Workday can enable better outcomes
- Drive solutions that prioritize employee and manager experience-focusing on simplicity, usability, and clear design over complexity
Requirements
- 7-10+ years of experience with Workday HCM, including hands-on configuration across core modules
- 3-5+ years of people leadership experience, including leading high-performing, techno-functional teams
- Proven experience operating in a cross-functional, enterprise environment, partnering across HR, Finance, and IT
- Experience leading or supporting large-scale implementations, enhancements, or platform transformations
- Strong understanding of HR processes and systems, with the ability to connect business needs to system capabilities
- Experience supporting SOX, audit, or regulated environments
- Experience influencing senior-level stakeholders
- If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.
- Strong, hands-on expertise across Workday HCM
- Experience supporting Workday releases, enhancements, and ongoing platform optimization
Compensation
- The base pay range for this role is listed below.
- Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate's experience, skills, and location.
Benefits
- Own end-to-end delivery of Workday initiatives across HCM modules, including core HR, talent, compensation, benefits, and integrations
- To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!
Company info
- Shape a brighter financial future with us.
- Together with our members, we're changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.
- We're a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals.
- The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we're at the forefront.
- We're proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people's lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way.
- Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.
- We're looking for a Senior Manager, Workday HCM to lead the execution and continuous improvement of our Workday HCM platform.
- This role is responsible for delivering against the Workday roadmap, driving operational excellence, and ensuring the platform effectively supports business needs at scale.
- We've deployed a broad footprint across HCM (core HR, onboarding, performance, advanced compensation, benefits) as well as Finance (financials, payroll, time tracking, time off, and expenses).
- You'll partner closely with IT, Finance, and People teams to drive aligned, scalable solutions across this ecosystem, balancing the needs of multiple functions on a shared platform.
- This is a hands-on leadership role-you'll drive priorities, while staying close enough to the platform and team to actively guide execution, unblock work, and ensure high-quality delivery with a strong focus on creating simple, intuitive experiences for employees and managers.
- You'll lead the Workday team and partner directly with senior HR and business leaders as a thought partner-bringing a deep understanding of HR functions, shaping solutions, and proactively identifying how technology can better support the business.
- Roadmap Execution & Platform Evolution
- Contribute to and help shape the Workday HCM roadmap in partnership with senior leadership
- Evaluate Workday releases, vendor roadmap, and industry trends to proactively evolve our platform
- Stakeholder Partnership & Influence
- Provide recommendations and influence decisions across stakeholders, navigating competing priorities
- Serve as a key point of contact for Workday HCM, ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility, alignment, and confidence in delivery
- Delivery & Operations
- Lead backlog management, intake, and prioritization processes to ensure aligned and efficient delivery
- Ensure strong operational rigor across system performance, data integrity, security, and compliance
- Establish and maintain governance, release management, and change control processes
This listing is sourced directly from SoFi's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.