Workday

Workday

Director of Strategic Initiatives - HCM and Workforce Management Development

USA, CA, Pleasanton · Director

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Workday, Inc. obtained a prevailing wage determination for Software Developers in Boulder, COLORADO on 2026-06-15. No matching green-card filing appears in our data yet. The determination expires in 7 days (2026-09-12), and a green-card filing must follow before then or the employer starts over.+2 more active determinations on file

Green-card follow-through: 98%

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About the role

  • Thought partnership and assisting with defining, planning and orchestrating culture based initiatives across the team.
  • Monitors and analyzes trends to provide key insights and integrates these metrics into business and operations reviews.
  • Curate and source org specific content for senior management reporting.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate and develop content for team and org-wide meetings and events. Curate and source org specific content for senior management reporting.
  • Develop and implement creative ways to cultivate all types of recognition throughout the organization and ensure representation in the Product and Corporate level recognition as appropriate.
  • Collaborate across the organization to align OKRs, including cross-team communication and alignment and proactive reporting.
  • Promote operational excellence: identify and execute on opportunities to optimize our organizational systems and processes while bringing together multiple stakeholders to help drive decisions.
  • Outcome Focused: Drive successful outcomes and bring visibility to status and progress of Key Strategic business and operational initiatives and priorities.
  • Communication: Orchestrate and develop key communication strategies.
  • Collaborate with the other Chief of Staff's in the ecosystem, especially around process change
  • Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work.
  • Design, coordinate and lead HCM & Workforce Management Engineering Professional Development Programs.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 15 years in product development experience with a demonstrated track record of - developing and executing on strategic priorities.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience strategizing and executing change management initiatives
  • Minimum of 5 years managing a fiscal budget across multiple teams
  • Experience with risk mitigation
  • Experience using critical thinking/ problem solving through curating data from multiple sources, assessing multiple viewpoints and making data-driven decisions.
  • Experience managing operational excellence
  • Experience leading teams to focusing on outcomes and results
  • Demonstrated ability to influence all levels of leadership
  • ability to handle difficult situations, conversations and skilled at delivering feedback across multiple levels of the organization.
  • We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role).

Skills

  • Your work days are brighter here.

Compensation

  • $196,000 USD - $294,000 USD
  • $171,000 USD - $294,000 USD
  • In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.

Benefits

  • Develop and implement creative ways to cultivate all types of learning and innovation ideas throughout the organization
  • Our Approach to Flexible Work
  • This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together.
  • Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

Company info

  • We are looking for a Chief of Staff who will serve as a strategic advisor and counsel to the VP of HCM & Workforce Management Engineering and will help drive forward key strategic initiatives to ensure operational excellence.
  • This role will lead all aspects of initiatives that will accelerate business operations and drive business effectiveness and efficiencies across the HCM & Workforce Management Engineering teams while creating and maintaining cross-departmental relationships to enable leadership success.
  • The successful candidate has a passion for driving continuous improvement and thrives in an employee first, customer centric culture
  • Finance and Budget Spend - Working closely with our finance partners to ensure we are keeping to our operational budgets and setting budgets with the teams

Equal opportunity

  • Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
  • If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email accommodations@workday.com, as far in advance as possible.
  • Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law.
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