HRIS Manager

## Responsibilities - Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for your pod's systems and processes—from gathering requirements and designing solutions through testing, delivery, and adoption. - Serve as the Workday subject matter expert for your domain, advising stakeholders on configuration best practices, optimization opportunities, and governance. - Assess when Workday is the right tool and when a specialized third-party platform better serves the business. You'll partner with stakeholders on those decisions and own the requirements that follow. - Understand integration concepts well enough to make informed build-vs-buy decisions and clearly define requirements for our integrations team—you won't be building integrations, but you'll know why they're needed and what they need to do. - Design, build, and maintain custom Workday reports, dashboards, and calculated fields to surface the right data to the right people at the right time. - Partner cross-functionally with IT, Finance, Business Operations, and global People teams to align on requirements, recommend solutions, and drive delivery. - Identify and drive AI and automation opportunities within your domain—reducing manual work and increasing the intelligence of your systems. - Manage testing and quality assurance, including regression testing for system updates, new configurations, and third-party changes. - Create and maintain system documentation, change management materials, and training resources that drive adoption across the People team and the broader organization. - Manage projects independently—scoping, communicating, and delivering with sound judgment about when to escalate. ## Requirements - 7+ years of hands-on HRIS experience with deep Workday knowledge across one or more functional areas. Workday Pro certification is a plus. - A systems thinker who evaluates the full People tech ecosystem—not just what's possible in Workday, but what's the right solution for the business, whether that's native configuration, a third-party tool, or a smarter process. - Technically fluent enough to understand integrations, data flows, and downstream impacts—so you can make good decisions and write clear requirements, even when someone else does the building. - Skilled at translating ambiguous business problems into clear, scalable HRIS solutions. You ask the right questions before writing a single business process step. - Experienced in end-to-end Workday implementation and enhancement work, including project management, stakeholder communication, and change management. - Knowledgeable in Workday security model design and configuration, with an understanding of how security decisions affect user experience, compliance, and downstream systems. - Curious about AI, automation, and emerging HR technology—and proactive about finding opportunities to apply them. - Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment, adapting when requirements shift, and escalating with good judgment. ## Nice to Have - None explicitly mentioned. ## Benefits - Generous and competitive global benefits - New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan - Continuous career development and pathing opportunities - Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space - Best in breed onboarding - Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.