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At Workday, we help the world's largest organizations adapt to what's next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.

About the Team
Workday is seeking a Senior Director, Global Site Experience to lead an expanding team focused on site health around the world. This position reports into the Senior Director, Employee Life. The Site Experience Team is part of Talent Experience, which is under People & Purpose (HR). With regional leaders in North America, EMEA, and APJ, and a Global Director/program lead based out of the US, this team ensures Workday is a great place to work for all - no matter who you are or what place you call home.

About the Role

In this newly crafted role, a strategic leader in the employee experience space will have the opportunity to lead the team shaping high-visibility programs and events across our global office footprint and our remote workforce. Our programs are designed to build connections amongst employees, celebrate our employee's contributions, and engage everyone in the Workday experience. We believe these experiences reinforce and strengthen our culture of innovation, focus on efficiency, and customer-centric approach. We know vibrant local office cultures will in turn strengthen our business. By investing in employees, we know they'll invest in our customers and products in return.

The perfect candidate will be successful in a range of settings working with audiences from emerging career to executives. They'll approach their work with an employee-first outlook, and possess the ability to respond quickly while remaining cognizant of the long-term outlook and objectives.

Like many companies, we're expecting our workforce of the future to use our office spaces differently. The majority of our employees will be able to spend a portion of their time working from home. Your team will be tasked with understanding how these shifts impact the experience of individual employees as well as the large-scale impacts on our culture, programs, and strategy. Workday's offices are slowly reopening at this time. Initially, this role will focus on our Workmate Experience during our transition period as we return to the office. After our offices fully reopen, your focus will shift to in-office site experiences as well as the hybrid worker experience.

About You

• Evolve our existing informal site leadership roles and network and define the future of site leadership at Workday
• Formally launch our Site Experience team and lead the organizational change process as we apply and adapt the core model globally
• Direct a team of five (with employees in US, APJ, and EMEA). Each team member will be responsible for a portfolio of offices and working with the Site Leader and Committee at each location within their portfolio.
• This role will also directly support a small number of sites in the US (exact offices dependent on hiring location).
• Serve as a model of how to solve problems cross-functionally; build exceptional partnerships with a wide range of partners who influence site health: Workplace, Business Technology, People Operations, People Partners, Total Rewards, Belonging & Diversity, Learning, Finance, etc.

You, along with your team, will be responsible for:

• Working with Site Leaders to think critically about the site experience they wish to create in a post-COVID world.
• Using a suite of employee sentiment metrics to monitor site health & advise site leaders on how to respond to various insights, and then Identifying, diagnosing, and proposing solutions for site-specific challenges .
• Acting in partnership with Site Leaders and Site Leadership Committees to project manage specific interventions including gathering the necessary resources (Employee Networks, Belonging and Diversity, Total Rewards, etc.)
• Supporting other teams who are implementing global programs and/or changes that impact a particular site or region; partner with those teams to plan a site-specific roll out strategy and ensure local teams are accountable for the success of the initiative.
• Working closely with regional HR team members to align around an overall people strategy.
• Ensuring flawless event and program delivery for Employee Life - including employee volunteering, wellbeing, employee engagement around environmental sustainability, fun and social events, as well as other teams within P&P as needed. This team may be asked to help plan regional signature events such as an annual year-end party for our largest offices, but normally our network of employee volunteers who serve as culture champions at each office plan the more routine events.
• Partner with the Senior Global Program Manager, Employee Networks, to ensure that all local events meet the site needs.

Other Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a client facing role in human resources, culture, and employee experience
• Likes to both lead/vision and execute
• Is highly agile and likes working in a constantly evolving environment
• Loves building programs and isn't deterred by bumps along the way
• Patient; able to celebrate the small wins in pursuit of a bigger goal
• Builds strong partnerships and uses connections to get the job done
• Has an undeniable skill advising executive audiences
• Comfortable presenting across audiences and purposes; adapts messaging easily
• Has remarkable interpersonal skills (you might have a background in marketing and communications)

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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