Vice President, HCM & Pay Engineering

About the role

The Vice President of Software Engineering will serve as a pivotal leader within the UKG Product & Technology organization, reporting directly to the Engineering Leader responsible for UKG’s HCM and Pay product suite. This highly visible executive role requires an accomplished engineering leader with deep expertise in building and scaling SaaS enterprise products. The VP will shape the long-term platform vision for the product suite, drive SaaS-first engineering excellence, reliability and scalability, and enable faster innovation to deliver more customer value. This leader will inspire high-performing global teams, foster strong cross-functional partnerships, and engage directly with UKG’s largest customers across a wide range of industries.

Responsibilities

• Define, influence, and execute the engineering strategy and product roadmap for the foundation portfolio in HCM and Pay product suite, ensuring alignment with UKG’s broader business objectives.
• Champion a SaaS-first engineering mindset, emphasizing modern architectures, service ownership, scalability, security, and performance.
• Drive deep service ownership and operational maturity within engineering teams through modern SaaS practices, CI/CD, observability, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the complete software development lifecycle—from product definition through continuous deployment and support—ensuring on-time delivery of high-quality, highly available solutions.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, Customer Success, and other internal/external stakeholders to engineer forward-thinking features and capabilities.
• Engage with strategic customers across industries to gather insights, shape product direction, and drive continuous service and experience improvements.
• Lead, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering teams across multiple global locations, fostering a culture grounded in innovation, accountability, inclusion, and excellence.
• Attract, retain, and develop world-class technical talent, building teams that consistently deliver exceptional results.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships across Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, and other key functions to ensure seamless delivery and ongoing customer satisfaction.
• Uphold and amplify UKG’s culture and core values, inspiring trust, teamwork, and empowerment.

About You

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise-level software engineering, with 10+ years in senior leadership roles managing large, distributed engineering organizations.
• Demonstrated excellence leading engineering teams building and operating scalable SaaS products across diverse technologies, platforms, and architectures.
• Deep experience with Agile methodologies, modern DevOps practices, continuous delivery, and cloud-native engineering.
• Proven ability to inspire and lead high-performing teams, grounded in integrity, intellectual curiosity, and positive, energizing leadership.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including customers, executives, and cross-functional partners.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and engineering fundamentals, with hands-on understanding of complex technical environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; advanced degree preferred.

Company Overview

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge.

Equal Opportunity Employer

UKG is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, disability, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories. View The EEO Know Your Rights poster

Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process

If you need reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com.

Pay Range

The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation.

Learn More

Learn more about UKG’s benefits and rewards at https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits.