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Posting Type
Remote/Hybrid
Job Overview
The HRIS Lead is a senior individual contributor who provides technical and functional leadership for Workday and related HR systems. This role partners across Human Resources, IT, and the business to design, implement, and evolve scalable HR technology solutions. Acting as a trusted advisor and Workday expert, the HRIS Lead owns complex initiatives on the HRIS roadmap, drives system strategy, and mentors other HRIS team members.Job Description and Requirements
Key Responsibilities
Lead complex, cross‑functional HRIS initiatives, including implementation of new Workday functionality, modules, and major enhancements.
Own and influence the HRIS roadmap by partnering with senior HR and business stakeholders to align system strategy with organizational priorities.
Serve as a primary Workday subject matter expert, providing guidance on configuration, optimization, and best practices across HR domains.
Translate complex business requirements into scalable system solutions, proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and downstream impacts.
Lead resolution of highly complex HRIS issues, including root cause analysis, system design decisions, and long‑term corrective solutions.
Provide technical leadership for annual and enterprise‑wide HR programs (e.g., performance management, promotions, compliance reporting, payroll year‑end).
Partner with IT and vendors to support integrations, upgrades, and security maintenance across the HR systems ecosystem.
Establish and maintain high‑quality system documentation, standards, and reporting frameworks to support scale and consistency.
Mentor and guide HRIS analysts through knowledge sharing, design reviews, and best‑practice coaching, without direct people management responsibility.
Build expertise in Workday Extend and guide the evaluation, design, governance, and deployment of applications and solutions.
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years of hands‑on Workday experience, including advanced knowledge of two or more Workday modules.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
Demonstrated experience leading complex HRIS or enterprise system initiatives.
Strong understanding of HR processes, data governance, security concepts, and systems architecture.
Experience with reporting, testing, security design, and process automation within HR technology platforms.
Demonstrated problem-solving, stakeholder management, and project leadership skills.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business and technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
Ability to quickly learn and adopt emerging Workday technologies, including Workday Extend and Workday AI capabilities.
Experience with system implementations in a global or fast‑paced technology environment.
Working knowledge of applying regional data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) within HR systems.
Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.
This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.
The expected salary range for this role is between following values:
$111,000 and $167,000The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.
Required Skills:
Access Management, Applications Support, Database Management, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Patch Management, Security Management, Software Deployments, System Administration, Technical Support, User ManagementSkills Required
- 5+ years of hands-on Workday experience
- Advanced knowledge of at least two Workday modules
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- Experience leading complex HRIS or enterprise system initiatives
- Understanding of HR processes, data governance, security concepts, and systems architecture
- Experience with reporting, testing, security design, and process automation within HR technology platforms
- Problem-solving, stakeholder management, and project leadership skills
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business and technical audiences
- Ability to learn and adopt Workday Extend and Workday AI capabilities
- Experience with system implementations in a global or fast-paced technology environment
- Working knowledge of applying GDPR and CCPA within HR systems
Relativity Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Relativity and has not been reviewed or approved by Relativity.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off options include discretionary time off and two company‑wide breaks each year, providing additional recharge time.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, telehealth access, and wellness resources such as a Headspace subscription.
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Parental & Family Support — North America offers up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with comparable regional programs in EMEA and APAC.
Relativity Insights
What We Do
At Relativity, we build innovative and comprehensive tools for making sense of unstructured data. When more people can find the facts in mountains of documents, emails, and texts, more legal and data-centric matters can be resolved equitably. Join us in our mission to help our customers organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Relativity makes software to help users organize data, discover the truth and act on it. Its SaaS product, RelativityOne, manages large volumes of data and quickly identifies key issues during litigation and internal investigations. Relativity has more than 300,000 users in approximately 40 countries serving thousands of organizations globally primarily in legal, financial services and government sectors, including the U.S. Department of Justice and 198 of the Am Law 200. Relativity does not tolerate racism or discrimination of any kind. We do not accept unfair treatment of any person or group of people. We’re committed to advocating for change to make our world a more inclusive, just place.
Why Work With Us
We believe in our team members and we want to help you own your career as part of a community of values-driven people who help customers around the world solve complex data challenges. At Relativity, you’ll take on challenging work, but you’ll also partner with talented colleagues and pursue plenty of learning and development opportunities.
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