Global Digital HR Experience Specialist

Hitachi Vantara Corporation; Tewkesbury; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking a Global Digital HR Experience Specialist to enhance employee journeys through digital HR platforms. The role involves designing employee experiences, analyzing insights, and collaborating with various teams to ensure impactful HR solutions. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s or Master’s in HR or IT, 3-5 years in digital HR, and strong problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in digital HR platforms or employee experience.
• Experience with cross-functional teams (IT, design, HR).

Responsibilities

• Oversee design of employee journeys across digital HR platforms.
• Identify and oversee critical touchpoints impacting employee engagement.
• Build and maintain governance frameworks for employee feedback collection.
• Translate insights into actionable improvements.

Skills

HR technology platforms knowledge

Design Thinking

UX/UI principles

Strong analytical skills

Collaboration skills

Project management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in HR, Information Technology

Tools

Workday

Adobe XD

Figma

Survey tools

Job description

Description

Global Digital HR Experience Specialist

Location: Global (preferably India, open to Europe)

Department: Global DHR

Reports to: Director of Digital Experience

Role Overview

As a Digital HR Experience Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in embedding a human-centered approach across Digital HR landscape. You will champion the “people lens” in decision-making, ensuring that employee experience is prioritized at every stage of the HR Digital journey. This role is instrumental in shaping and governing the Voice of the Customer, driving actionable insights, and influencing global stakeholders across Digital HR, both globally and regionally partnering with sectors.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the design of end-to-end employee journeys (e.g., onboarding, learning, performance, mobility) across digital HR platforms in close partnership with COEs.
• Moments That Matter: Identify, design, and oversee critical touchpoints in the employee’s digital HR journey that significantly impact engagement and satisfaction in employee lifecycle.
• Ensure digital experiences are consistent, intuitive, and reflective of the company’s EVP and culture.
• Voice of the Employee Governance: Build and maintain governance frameworks for collecting and analyzing employee feedback on digital HR platforms through reference groups, surveys, focus groups, continuous listening, and pulse checks.
• Insight-Driven Recommendations: Translate insights into actionable improvements and business cases for investment. Drive the identified strategic recommendations in close partnership with global Digital HR CoE and Sector leads.
• Report experience impact to HR and leadership (e.g., adoption, productivity, engagement).
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment and integration of people experience initiatives across the organization.

Qualifications

Education & Background

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HR, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in managing digital HR Platforms, employee experience, UX/UI, customer experience (CX), or web content management.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (IT, design, HR, analytics, etc.).

Technical Skills

• Working Knowledge of HR technology platforms especially Workday.
• Understanding of Design Thinking, Service Design and UX principles, digital accessibility standards (WCAG), and responsive design best practices.
• Ability to interpret and act on data insights to optimize digital experiences.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights and capability to use analytics tools.
• Familiarity with design tools such as Adobe XD, Figma, or Sketch and facilitation tools such as Miro, Mural etc.
• Familiarity with survey tools, listening platforms, and experience design methodologies.

Soft Skills

• Strong human-centric mindset with the ability to translate employee needs into engaging digital experiences.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong problem-solving and project management abilities; comfortable managing multiple priorities.
• Detail-oriented, creative, and passionate about improving the customer digital journey.
• Passion for creating inclusive, engaging, and meaningful employee experiences.