Senior Workday Recruiting & Onboarding Analyst

Minneapolis, MN 55402 • Hybrid (60% in-office)

Temporary full-time role (estimated 4 months) • $60.00–$72.00/hour

About the role

The HR Product team is hiring an experienced Workday Analyst for Recruiting and Onboarding. This person will have a primary focus on enhancement configuration in Workday Recruiting and Onboarding, working as part of an Agile team to deliver on business vision and priorities. Responsibilities include designing, configuring, testing, and delivering system capabilities to enhance candidate, employee, recruiter, and stakeholder experiences, promoting cross-functional collaboration to drive innovation within an agile framework.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional configuration, activities, and testing to implement features and deliver outcomes.
• Design, automate, and optimize business processes, business rules, and workflows that are scalable for rapidly changing experiences and strategies.
• Identify business needs, define outcomes, assess gaps, and participate in release and product planning while managing delivery expectations.
• Provide technology input to product roadmaps for HR strategic platforms including Workday, Phenom CRM, and Jira.
• Evaluate new applications, modules, or vendors by defining business and technical requirements, comparing solutions, identifying fit gaps, and managing the RFP process.
• Collaborate with leadership, IT, functional stakeholders, global experience owners, and service center teams to shape and design positive stakeholder experiences.
• Research and resolve reported problems or pain points within HR platforms, analyze security issues, and recommend corrective and proactive actions in partnership with stakeholders and vendors.
• Analyze product adoption, successes, and opportunities for future enhancements.
• Participate in, facilitate, or manage all technology testing, including defining and executing automated testing scripts.
• Serve as a functional administrator and subject matter expert for Workday Recruiting and Onboarding, ensuring system configuration, security, reporting, integrations, and operational processes align with business needs, compliance requirements, and HR technology governance standards.
• Partner closely with Talent Acquisition, HR Operations, IT, Legal, Compliance, and vendor partners to support end-to-end recruiting and onboarding capabilities, resolve production issues, evaluate enhancement requests, document configuration decisions, and support change management and user adoption.
• Maintain Workday Recruiting configuration, including job requisitions, candidate stages, interview processes, offer processes, job application business processes, questionnaires, notifications, templates, and condition rules.
• Support Workday releases, regression testing, tenant validation, defect triage, documentation, and change control processes.
• Provide end-user support, develop job aids or documentation, facilitate training, and promote adoption of recruiting and onboarding technology changes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer engineering, human resources, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of relevant technical experience in Workday, with hands-on experience administering Workday Recruiting and/or Onboarding, including business process configuration, security, reporting, testing, and production support.
• Global configuration experience in Workday (5+ years).
• Advanced experience in requirement gathering, design, prototype, and testing of Workday Recruiting and onboarding solutions according to customer requirements.
• Strong knowledge of I-9 processes, onboarding administration tasks, journeys, and job application dynamic process configuration.
• Experience working in an agile team and executing in a scrum environment.
• Experience with Jira, Phenom CRM platform, and E-Verify (5+ years).
• Advanced understanding and demonstrated ability to support analysis, drive automation, make process recommendations, and implement technical changes for current and future product development.
• Knowledge of HR functions and business rules, including payroll, compensation, recruiting, staffing practices, and benefits.
• Proven experience in configuration and design of complex workflows and business rules.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of Workday security administration concepts, including domain and business process security, role-based access, segregation of duties, and confidential recruiting data handling.
• Strong understanding of data integrity, audit controls, compliance considerations, and HRIS governance practices related to recruiting, onboarding, I-9, E-Verify, and candidate data.
• Ability to partner with HR, Talent Acquisition, IT, Legal, Compliance, and vendors to translate business requirements into scalable, sustainable Workday solutions.

Skills

• JIRA
• Onboarding
• Recruiting
• Workday
• Phenom CRM platform
• E-Verify
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Windows infrastructure