Workday UX Consultant

Request ID: 74282-1
Title: Workday UX Consultant
Locations: Irvine, CA 92602
Duration: 6 Months
Rate Range: $50 - $56/Hour on W2 (All inclusive)
Note: Applicants must be willing to work on W2

Required Skills:
" 8 12+ years of experience in:
" HR Technology
" Workday (Core HR / Onboarding)
" Experience design / journey transformation
" Strong, hands-on understanding of:
" Workday business processes and onboarding capabilities
" Experience in:
" Journey mapping and service design
" Cross-functional program delivery
" Ability to balance:
" Experience design vision
" Platform constraints and technical feasibility
" Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills"

Role Summary
We are seeking a Workday Onboarding Experience & Journey Lead to reimagine and elevate the end-to-end onboarding experience across our HR technology ecosystem.
This role is focused on transforming onboarding from a set of disconnected processes into a seamless, intuitive, and high-impact employee journey. The individual will combine deep Workday knowledge, experience design thinking, and cross-functional collaboration to identify friction points, redesign workflows, and deliver a significantly improved onboarding experience.
This is not a traditional UX design role. It is a journey-led, product-oriented role focused on experience transformation within the realities of Workday and integrated systems.

Key Responsibilities
Onboarding Journey Ownership
" Lead the redesign of the end-to-end onboarding journey:
" Offer acceptance Pre-boarding Day 1 First 90 days
" Map current-state vs future-state experiences across:
" Employee
" Hiring manager
" HR / operations

Experience Design within Workday
" Translate experience vision into Workday-enabled solutions
" Work deeply within:
" Workday onboarding frameworks
" Business process configurations
" Notifications, tasks, and workflows
" Ensure experience design is practical, scalable, and aligned with platform capabilities

Friction Identification & Simplification
" Diagnose pain points such as:
" Too many steps / handoffs
" Lack of clarity for new hires
" Redundant or manual processes
" Poor manager enablement
" Simplify workflows and eliminate unnecessary complexity
" Drive automation-first and self-service-first thinking

Cross-Functional Experience Design
" Collaborate across:
" Recruiting (handoff from TA to onboarding)
" Core HR
" IT provisioning
" Learning / compliance
" Payroll / benefits (where applicable)
" Ensure onboarding is not siloed but connected across systems and teams

Digital Experience & Integration Thinking
" Design how onboarding experience surfaces across:
" Workday (core system)
" HR Assist / chatbot layer (if applicable)
" Email / notifications / manager tools

Prototyping & Iteration
" Create:
" Journey maps
" Experience blueprints
" Low-fidelity prototypes (flows, interactions)
" Run working sessions with stakeholders to iterate on solutions quickly
" Validate designs with real user feedback where possible

Measurement & Continuous Improvement
" Define success metrics such as:
" New hire experience score
" Time-to-productivity
" Task completion rates
" Manager satisfaction
" Establish a continuous improvement loop for onboarding"

Company Benefits & Culture

• Inclusive and diverse work environment
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits

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