Senior HRIS Analyst (Workday)

About the role

Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast), with a mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact across digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives. Location: Chicago, IL or New York, NY. MrBeast is looking for an analytical, strategic, and tech-savvy Senior HRIS Analyst (Workday) to join the General team working on scaling our global HR and IT infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural design, delivery, and ongoing evolution of Workday to support evolving organizational goals across HR, IT, and Finance.
• Serve as the primary system administrator for Workday Core HCM, managing business process configurations, security roles, and calculated fields.
• Architect and maintain seamless integrations between Workday and external ecosystem tools, including Deel, Greenhouse, Britehire, 15Five, and Okta.
• Build and support robust integrations utilizing Workday Studio, EIBs, and REST/SOAP APIs.
• Establish automated ETL data pipelines using tools like Airbyte or Fivetran to extract Workday data into centralized data warehouses (Snowflake/BigQuery).
• Drive executive decision‑making by creating advanced reporting solutions, executive dashboards, and leveraging Workday People Analytics and Prism Analytics.
• Own end‑to‑end Workday release management, feature evaluation, and regression testing to ensure continuous operational uptime with zero unhandled production issues.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable technical specifications while developing documentation and change management strategies to support user adoption.

Requirements

• 8+ years of total HRIS/HR technology administration experience, with 5+ years of