Job Description
Job Title: Sr. Program Manager - Workday
Location: Irvine California / Palo Alto, CA
Duration: 6 months contract
Role Summary
Key Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Must Have
Nice To Have
Location: Irvine California / Palo Alto, CA
Duration: 6 months contract
Role Summary
- We are seeking an experienced Senior Program Manager to lead Workday implementation. This role will be responsible for end-to-end program delivery, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders and implementation partners, and ensuring a successful transition to a scalable, standalone HR technology environment.
- The ideal candidate has extensive experience delivering complex Workday implementations, strong technical and business acumen, and the ability to drive execution in a fast-paced, evolving organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end Workday implementation, from program planning and solution design through deployment, go-live, and stabilization.
- Own program scope, timelines, budget, milestones, dependencies, risks, and overall delivery quality.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams across Enterprise IT, HR, Finance, Security, and external implementation partners.
- Oversee integrations with SAP, Okta, Concur, Ashby, and other enterprise platforms.
- Drive critical implementation activities, including data migration, testing, cutover planning, and operational readiness.
- Establish effective program governance, executive reporting, issue resolution, and escalation processes.
- Manage implementation partners, ensuring accountability for deliverables, timelines, and quality.
- Support change management, business readiness, and a smooth transition from existing shared HR services to a standalone operating model.
- Ensure appropriate documentation, knowledge transfer, and handover to operational support teams.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise IT program management, with significant HR technology transformation experience.
- Proven track record leading multiple end-to-end Workday HCM implementations, including successful go-lives.
- Strong understanding of Workday architecture, HR processes, enterprise integrations, and data migration.
- Experience managing large-scale technology programs, systems integrators, and cross-functional teams.
- Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to operate independently, drive decisions, and deliver results in a complex, fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with corporate carve-outs, joint ventures, or transitioning from shared services to standalone enterprise systems.
- Familiarity with SAP, Okta, Concur, and other enterprise HR and Finance platforms.
- Workday certification, PMP, or equivalent program management credentials.
- Experience supporting global organizations with distributed teams and complex stakeholder environments.
Must Have
- Data Migration
- Enterprise Architecture
- Excellent stakeholder management
- Technical Program Management
- Workday HCM
- Workday Implementations
- Workday Integrations
Nice To Have
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Irvine, CA |
| Industry | Other/Not Classified |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1998 |
| Website | www.eteaminc.com |
About Company
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