Workday Product Lead – HCM, HR Systems

Gartner

HR Systems Product Lead managing Workday HCM technologies to drive growth and improve HR processes at Gartner. Collaborating with stakeholders to enhance HR Systems functionalities and resolving issues.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeIrving • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $86,000 - $118,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Evolve the Compensation & Benefits, and Time & Absence technology portfolio and roadmap in partnership with HRIS leadership, our HR business owners, and other stakeholders across the business.
Maintain relationships with key business partners to ensure visibility and partnerships for issue resolution and enhancements.
Drive and maintain the Workday Compensation, Benefits, and Absence capabilities within our HR Systems team.
Own and execute on system administration for Workday, including configuration, business processes, security & compliance, notifications, auditing and data quality management.
Drive and maintain capability-specific, vendor-led releases and system enhancements, including the configuration and development of new features, deploying enhancements, as well as creation and execution of test plans, user acceptance and regression testing.
Support operational excellence in our existing systems of record, continuously evolving processes, ensuring the priority resolution of issues and application of project management principles for longer term initiatives.
Manage bug/issue resolution processes: root cause analysis, impact analysis and driving solution design; in addition to implementing, testing and deploying solutions.
Support Reporting & Analytics team for the definition and testing of report & dashboard needs of the organization including requirements gathering, designing and testing.
Configure, test and process mass data loads via the Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).
Support Compliance enablement via HRIS systems and processes, including liaising with key contacts to understand changes in regulatory environment.
Execute quality assurance efforts to ensure the accuracy of data and information.
Participate in requirements gathering sessions with functional subject matter experts, IT and users.
Support broader HR Systems HCM team in handling end users inbound request and escalations including the development of knowledge management collateral to support training and education efforts.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field preferred.
Minimum 2 years of experience configuring and managing Workday HCM and other HR systems, including experience with business processes, data structure, domain and BP security, EIBs, reporting & calculated fields, data auditing.
Annual benefits and compensation cycle management is a plus (i.e., Open Enrollment and Annual Merit Compensation Review).
Knowledge of HR business processes.
Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
Experience developing reports and calculated fields in Workday.
Strong service orientation with a high sense of ownership and accountability.
Proven ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
Strong work ethic and motivated to achieve goals and exceed expectations.
Exceptional time management skills and an ability to handle multiple assignments and meet deadlines.
A ‘systems’ thinker with a process orientation and significant attention to detail.
Superior interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
High level of executive presence.
Change management experience preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation.
Limitless growth and learning opportunities.
A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.
Enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.
20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.
Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.
401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.
Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
Parental leave.
Tuition reimbursement.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Employee Assistance Program.
Gartner Gives Charity Match.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Workday HCMconfigurationbusiness processesdata structureBP securityEnterprise Interface Builder (EIB)reportingcalculated fieldsdata auditingquality assurance

Soft Skills

service orientationownershipaccountabilityanalytical skillstroubleshootingproblem-solvingtime managementinterpersonal skillswritten communicationoral communication