Staff Workday Analyst

An overview of this role

As a Staff HRIS Analyst, you'll architect, optimize, and innovate the backbone of GitLab's People Technology ecosystem—a Workday HCM platform supporting 2,500+ team members across 40+ countries. You'll be critical to building the future of how GitLab team members experience work. Over the next 3 years, we're transforming into a unified, AI-augmented employee experience where team members get the right guidance at the right time, in their flow of work.

You'll own Workday's day-to-day reliability and configuration while simultaneously driving our strategic roadmap forward—implementing intelligent automation, embedding AI capabilities, and building seamless integrations that give team members the insights and tools they need to do their best work.

What You’ll Do  

• Own end-to-end Workday administration: configure modules, maintain business processes, manage bi-annual Workday releases, and iterate on configurations across at least two of the following areas: Advanced Compensation, Absence, Time Tracking, or Talent
• Ensure data integrity and compliance through systematic auditing, security reviews, and proactive issue resolution s
• Lead annual People program delivery with full ownership of configuration, testing, integration impacts, and stakeholder coordination
• Advance our unified employee experience vision by deploying Workday AI capabilities, orchestrating cross-system integrations with core platforms and building intelligent automation and dashboards that transform how team members navigate talent management, compensation, and benefits
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable system solutions, balancing user experience, compliance requirements, and technical constraints across global operations
• Facilitate design sessions with key stakeholders to understand needs, challenge assumptions, and recommend scalable, enterprise ready, solutions 
• Champion human-centered design by understanding how team members and managers actually work, then building experiences that meet them in their flow
• Stay current on Workday, HR technology, and data management trends, and identify opportunities to improve GitLab’s People Technology ecosystem, including integrations and related tools.

What You’ll Bring 

• Extensive hands-on Workday administration with deep expertise in a subset of Advanced Compensation, Absence, Benefits, Time Tracking, or Talent modules.
• Strong strong knowledge of and deep experience facilitating the deployment of integration and automation capabilities 
• Proven track record building executive-grade Workday reports, calculated fields, a