HR Sr. Manager
About the role
The People Operations, Systems & Innovation team at BridgeBio builds the operational infrastructure powering BridgeBio's People function. This role serves as the senior functional owner across the People systems stack, including Workday HCM, Greenhouse ATS, VNDLY, Payroll, Benefits, and ServiceNow.
Responsibilities
Systems Ownership: Serve as primary functional administrator and HRIS product owner for Workday HCM across Core, Compensation, Talent, Absence, and Benefits. Own the People systems SDLC end-to-end, from requirements through UAT sign-off, Go/No-Go, hypercare, and project closure.
Structured Requirements Gathering: Lead structured requirements gathering with business owners across People, Finance, Legal, and TA; translate into PRDs, process flows, and formal test plans.
Semi-Annual Release Cycles: Manage semi-annual Workday release cycles, including feature evaluation, impact assessment, testing coordination, and change communication.
Enhancement Intake & Prioritization: Own the enhancement intake and prioritization pipeline, maintaining a versioned requirements library across all People systems.
Integrations, Compliance & Controls: Monitor and maintain all People system integrations; serve as named HR Business Process Owner in SOX documentation; maintain user access controls, SoD controls, and UAR evidence across all audit cycles.
AI Architecture & Automation: Contribute to the team's AI innovation agenda; architect AI-powered workflows in Moveworks/Maverick and Databricks; build data pipelines from Workday, Greenhouse, and ADP to support workforce planning and analytics.
Maverick People Assistant Implementation: Own the implementation of the Maverick People Assistant, including service catalog design, CMS authoring standards, agentic workflow configuration, and the Moveworks-to-ServiceNow integration layer.
Responsible AI Governance: Govern all AI deployments through a responsible AI framework, ensuring fairness, data privacy, compliance, auditability, and human oversight before production.
Employee Experience & Service Design: Design People systems from the employee's perspective; map the full HR journey, identify friction points, and ensure configuration produces an intuitive, consistent experience.
HR Service Catalog: Own the HR service catalog, defining every People team service, its delivery channel, SLA, and experience metrics.
Greenhouse ATS & Contingent Workforce: Own Greenhouse ATS configuration end-to-end, managing the pipeline architecture, interview kits, scorecards, offer workflows, and data hygiene. Own the VNDLY contingent workforce platform, including onboarding/offboarding workflows, tenure monitoring, classification controls, and Workday record synchronization.
Qualifications
Systems Depth: 5+ years of hands-on Workday HCM administration as a named system owner or HRIS product owner in a regulated environment; demonstrated Greenhouse ATS and VNDLY (or equivalent VMS) experience.
Configuration Expertise: Deep knowledge of Workday business processes, security roles, calculated fields, and EIB imports; hands-on ServiceNow HRSD configuration; SOX ITGC compliance with named control ownership.
Data & Analytics: Comfortable with Workday Report Writer, EIB, and structured data; Databricks/SQL for people analytics pipelines is a strong plus.
AI & Automation: Demonstrated experience evaluating and deploying AI/LLM tools; hands-on Moveworks or equivalent conversational AI platform experience (agent configuration, intent taxonomy, RAG) strongly preferred; familiarity with low-code automation (n8n, Zapier, Cowork).
Experience Designer: You think in journeys and service catalogs, not tickets and configurations; track record of using listening data to drive measurable improvements.
Cross-Functional Partner: Proven ability to build credibility across IT, Finance, Legal, and TA — equally comfortable co-signing a SOX control and running a discovery session with an HRBP.
On-site Commitment: Based in the San Francisco Bay Area; available to work regularly from SF and Palo Alto offices.