Director, HR Technology

Semtech

Director of HR Technology leading HR systems transformation efforts for Semtech's HR landscape. Collaborating with HR and IT to enhance employee and manager experience across the Americas.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeSan Jose • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $180,000 - $222,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Responsible for driving, championing, and executing initiatives which support the transformation of the Semtech landscape.
Manage the portfolio of HR system applications and projects: synchronize projects and their interdependencies; coordinate resource capacity and availability; facilitate transitions from projects to operations; identify barriers to change and drive organizational change.
Innovates and continuously optimizes Workday and other HR applications to fit business needs.
Serve as a key AI Champion of the HR function helping to set AI strategy and development of the HR team’s skillsets.
Leverage all HR systems to provide meaningful data and analytics.
Take operational responsibilities for HR tickets solving, HRIS training curricula creation and roll out.
Ensure relationship management with the other functions stakeholders to identify and manage risks and dependencies.
Handle and raise project risks and issues as appropriate, establish success metrics for projects and ensure project performance is tracked and measured.
Periodically review support team and structure to help demand management and capacity planning, utilizing metrics and services delivery standards.
Provide thought leadership regarding HR technology solutions and strategies for new programs, projects and enhancements to existing solutions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in business discipline preferred; Master’s degree a plus.
10 years HR Technology experience; leading enterprise projects, system maintenance, data/analytics.
Ability to align HR processes, system functionality, and data governance with departmental/regional vision and goals, specifically as it relates to designing for the employee/manager.
Familiar with the end-to-end employee life cycle process including: Recruiting, Onboarding, Employee master data, Talent, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Integration, and Reporting.
Have (a) managed a Workday shop for at least 3 years and (b) personally led a complete HRIS implementation (ideally of Workday) or another HRIS system of equal magnitude.
Strong project management and communication skills, including strong agile and design thinking expertise.
Capability to balance competing priorities and drive projects to completion in a fast-paced environment and sometimes under conditions of ambiguity.
Expert level Workday experience is required.
Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate across functional and technical partners.
Creative thinker with a desire to problem solve.
Ability to lead a team and create a culture of innovation and trust.
Hands-on and strong results orientation.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Responsible for driving, championing, and executing initiatives which support the transformation of the Semtech landscape.
Manage the portfolio of HR system applications and projects: synchronize projects and their interdependencies; coordinate resource capacity and availability; facilitate transitions from projects to operations; identify barriers to change and drive organizational change.
Innovates and continuously optimizes Workday and other HR applications to fit business needs.
Serve as a key AI Champion of the HR function helping to set AI strategy and development of the HR team’s skillsets.
Leverage all HR systems to provide meaningful data and analytics.
Take operational responsibilities for HR tickets solving, HRIS training curricula creation and roll out.
Ensure relationship management with the other functions stakeholders to identify and manage risks and dependencies.
Handle and raise project risks and issues as appropriate, establish success metrics for projects and ensure project performance is tracked and measured.
Periodically review support team and structure to help demand management and capacity planning, utilizing metrics and services delivery standards.
Provide thought leadership regarding HR technology solutions and strategies for new programs, projects and enhancements to existing solutions. 🎯 Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in business discipline preferred; Master’s degree a plus.
10 years HR Technology experience; leading enterprise projects, system maintenance, data/analytics.
Ability to align HR processes, system functionality, and data governance with departmental/regional vision and goals, specifically as it relates to designing for the employee/manager.
Familiar with the end-to-end employee life cycle process including: Recruiting, Onboarding, Employee master data, Talent, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Integration, and Reporting.
Have (a) managed a Workday shop for at least 3 years and (b) personally led a complete HRIS implementation (ideally of Workday) or another HRIS system of equal magnitude.
Strong project management and communication skills, including strong agile and design thinking expertise.
Capability to balance competing priorities and drive projects to completion in a fast-paced environment and sometimes under conditions of ambiguity.
Expert level Workday experience is required.
Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate across functional and technical partners.
Creative thinker with a desire to problem solve.
Ability to lead a team and create a culture of innovation and trust.
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Hard Skills & Tools

HR TechnologyWorkdayHRIS implementationdata analyticsproject managementdata governanceemployee life cycleagile methodologydesign thinkingcapacity planning

Soft Skills

communication skillsleadershipproblem solvinginnovationrelationship managementorganizational changecreativityresults orientationability to balance prioritiesthought leadership

Certifications

Bachelor’s degreeMaster’s degree