Lambda
People Systems Lead - HRIS
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) · Senior
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About the role
- Your responsibilities will include architecting Workday's tenant configuration, supervisory and security models, payroll setup, integration layer, and reporting framework.
- Feed clean headcount actuals into Pigment EPM for FP&A. - SOX & Compliance: Establish and enforce controls around payroll, comp, terminations, access provisioning, and master data changes.
Responsibilities
- Platform Ownership: Own the end-to-end design, build, and administration of Workday HCM, including tenant configuration, supervisory orgs, business processes, security model, and environment management across implementation, sandbox, and production tenants.
- Payroll Deployment & Operations: Lead the deployment of Workday Payroll (US first, international as scoped) with full SOX-compliant controls over pay calculation, tax filing, GL posting to NetSuite, and off-cycle processing.
- Own ongoing payroll operations partnership with the People and Accounting teams.
- Implementation Partner Management: Lead the Workday implementation partner relationship end-to-end: scope, SOW, sprint cadence, UAT, cutover, hypercare. Hold the partner accountable to deliverables and timeline.
- People Data & Systems: Own the People data layer that feeds reporting and analytics: Pigment ID across Ashby and Workday, headcount close, attrition data, payroll register reconciliation. Feed clean headcount actuals into Pigment EPM for FP&A.
- SOX & Compliance: Establish and enforce controls around payroll, comp, terminations, access provisioning, and master data changes. Partner with external SOX advisors on ITGC and IPE design for the People stack.
- Team Building: Hire and grow a small in-house People Technology team (2-3 ICs over 12-18 months) covering Workday HCM/Payroll admin, integrations and reporting, and adjacent People Ops tooling.
- Stakeholder Enablement: Train and support end users across the People team, drive adoption, and build documentation and governance standards for tenant changes and release management.
- Roadmap & Strategy: Develop and maintain a multi-quarter platform roadmap aligned with Lambda's People function maturity goals, partnering with Business Technology and People leadership to prioritize enhancements
- Comfortable presenting to executives, managing competing priorities independently, and holding implementation partners accountable.
Requirements
- This role requires deep Workday domain expertise, payroll fluency, and the ability to translate People team needs into scalable, SOX-defensible solutions.
- Deep proficiency in Workday's data model, business process framework, security model, calculated fields, EIBs, Core Connectors, and Studio integrations.
- Working knowledge of SQL or Workday Report Writer, and familiarity with data pipelines (BigQuery, dbt, Fivetran, Workato).
- Technical Expertise: Deep proficiency in Workday's data model, business process framework, security model, calculated fields, EIBs, Core Connectors, and Studio integrations.
Nice to have
- Prior experience with Workday's API and programmatic integrations (REST, SOAP, RaaS).
- International payroll experience (LATAM, Canada, India, EMEA).
- Hands-on familiarity with NetSuite GL posting, Okta/Lumos identity governance, Greenhouse, Lattice, Carta, or Workato.
- Prior experience migrating from Rippling, BambooHR, ADP, UKG, or SAP SuccessFactors to Workday.
- 10+ years in HRIS / People Systems, with at least 4+ years of hands-on Workday HCM and Payroll implementation and administration experience.
- At least one full-cycle Workday implementation including Payroll go-live as the customer-side architect or in-house owner.
- Prior experience at a high-growth or pre-IPO / public company strongly preferred.
Compensation
- The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors.
- However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
- We offer generous cash & equity compensation
Benefits
- We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
Company info
- We offer generous cash & equity compensation
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Equal opportunity
- Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer.
- Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
- Equal Opportunity Employer
Visa & Work Authorization
- ational origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law
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