Director, HR Technology Programs - Hybrid NY

Scope Of Responsibilities

• Lead HR technology transformation initiatives including new system implementations, feature rollouts, integrations, and process improvements.
• Ensure employee experience remains at the forefront of all technology changes.
• Manage vendor relationships, including service level agreements (SLAs), while partnering with IT as Product Owner to resolve emerging issues and execute PI planning.
• Lead HR operational process modernization, including end-to-end onboarding digitization, workforce data integrity, and enterprise HR reporting and analytics.
• Oversee the digitization of employee onboarding from offer acceptance to day one, enforcing regulatory compliance and data accuracy through close partnership with functional stakeholders.
• Ensure all onboarding artifacts are captured digitally, stored securely, and integrated with HR systems for reporting and audit readiness.
• Design and implement an enterprise-level HR data model ensuring source-to-report consistency across HRIS, ATS, onboarding, payroll, benefits and performance systems through close partnerships with functional stakeholders.
• Define and enforce data standards, governance policies, and audit controls to maintain trusted people data across the organization.
• Partner with IT, compliance, and enterprise data teams on integrations, security, and reporting pipelines.
• Establish, monitor, and govern a portfolio of HR KPIs aligned with organizational goals in partnership with key stakeholders.
• Ensure data definitions are standardized, widely understood and actionable.
• Leverage AI, emerging HR technologies, and people analytics to drive innovation, continuous process improvement, and operational insights.
• Demonstrate a forward-thinking, innovative mindset and provide strategic insights into how technology and analytics can execute enterprise and HR strategies with measurable outcomes.
• Foster a culture of innovation, ensuring prioritization of high-impact work and effective capacity planning.
• Ensure enterprise alignment around all AI use cases for HR.
• Manage key stakeholder relationships, ensuring analytics and technology strategies align with business needs.
• Partner with members of the HR team and functional leaders to define needs and to gain insights regarding priority business issues.
• Build strong partnerships across IT and Enterprise Analytics to optimize systems integrations, functionality, data architecture, governance, and employee experience.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the HR Technology Program team.
• Build data literacy and capabilities across HR by developing and deploying an HR data playbook.
• Establish report production standards, schedules, SLAs, and quality checks.
• Ensure HR reporting outputs are compliant, repeatable, and aligned with enterprise reporting best practices.
• Drive performance metrics tied to onboarding outcomes including onboarding completion rate, time to productivity, and compliance milestone adherence.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent HR technology experience.
• 10+ years of progressive HR operations, or HR technology.
• Strong background in data architecture, governance, systems integration, and technology transformation.
• Proven expertise in HR technology platforms and leveraging AI for HR innovation.
• Strong facilitation, consulting, and influence skills across a variety of audiences.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate complex data into insights.
• Demonstrated success leading high-performing teams and building organizational capability in data literacy.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and change leadership skills.