Program Manager

Revel IT; Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Revel IT is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead enterprise HCM initiatives focused on Workday and UKG. You will plan, coordinate, and drive execution of implementations, enhancements, and integrations, while engaging stakeholders across HR, payroll, finance, and IT.

You will develop program standards, governance routines, and operational transition practices, ensuring delivery aligns with organizational priorities and technology standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in program or project management supporting enterprise HCM platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional HCM program and projects focused on Workday, UKG, and related workforce capabilities.
• Develop and manage integrated HCM program plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, budgets, and roadmaps.
• Facilitate HCM governance and decision forums by preparing materials and tracking actions for leadership.
• Partner with HR, payroll, finance, operations, IT, vendors, and partners to align priorities and maintain delivery momentum.
• Coordinate HCM requirements, configuration decisions, data validation, testing, readiness, cutover, and transition planning.
• Gather stakeholder input to produce reports, dashboards, executive updates, RAID logs, and program documentation.
• Communicate status, risks, issues, decisions, and adoption impacts to leadership and teams.
• Support change management, readiness, training coordination, and adoption planning.
• Develop and maintain standards, templates, tools, and methodologies for HCM delivery.
• Maintain awareness of client processes, HCM tech, roadmaps, and vendor capabilities.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Planning

Facilitation

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Time management

Communication

Documentation

Change management

Vendor/partner management

Executive reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Workday

UKG

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Jira

DevOps

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Senior Program Manager provides program leadership and oversight for enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) platform initiatives, with a primary focus on Workday and UKG. This position is responsible for planning, coordinating, and driving execution of HCM platform implementations, enhancements, integrations, reporting, governance, testing, readiness, and operational transition activities. The role requires strong stakeholder engagement across HR, finance, payroll, operations, IT, vendors, and implementation partners to ensure HCM solutions align with organizational priorities, compliance requirements, workforce processes, and enterprise technology standards.

• Applicant will report directly to the Manager of the Project Management Office (PMO). Work with HR, payroll, finance, operations, IT, vendors, project managers leading the program workstreams, and implementation partners under the general direction of the manager.
• Perform in-depth analysis of HCM platform issues, risks, dependencies, business process impacts, data considerations, and readiness needs.
• Identify and recommend solutions to conventional and non-conventional Workday and UKG challenges.
• Assist in developing HCM program standards, templates, governance routines, implementation methodologies, and operational transition practices.
• Lead program planning, execution, testing, stakeholder engagement, decision support, and governance activities while explaining complex HCM platform concepts to non-technical users.

Position Accountabilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional HCM program and projects focused on Workday, UKG, and related enterprise workforce management capabilities.
• Develop and manage integrated HCM program plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, budgets, and implementation roadmaps.
• Facilitate HCM governance and decision forums by preparing materials, documenting decisions, tracking actions, and communicating status to senior leaders and program stakeholders.
• Partner with HR, payroll, finance, operations, IT, vendors, and implementation partners to clarify scope, align priorities, identify and resolve issues and risks, and maintain delivery momentum for Workday and UKG initiatives.
• Coordinate HCM requirements, configuration decisions, workflow alignment, data validation, testing, readiness, cutover, implementation, transition planning, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Gather critical information from stakeholder meetings and produce useful reports, dashboards, executive updates, decision logs, RAID logs, and HCM program documentation.
• Communicate HCM program status, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and adoption impacts to leadership, program teams, project teams, and affected business areas.
• Support HCM process improvement, change management, stakeholder readiness, training coordination, adoption planning, and operational transition activities.
• Assist in developing and maintaining standards, templates, tools, and methodologies that improve HCM delivery consistency, platform governance, implementation readiness, and operational effectiveness.
• Maintain awareness of client workforce processes, HCM technologies, platform roadmaps, vendor capabilities, and delivery practices to support modernization and continuous improvement.
• Ensure HCM work products meet business needs, quality expectations, compliance requirements, data integrity standards, platform configuration expectations, and delivery commitments.
• Balance and prioritize multiple HCM programs, platform enhancements, implementation activities, and stakeholder needs.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree; a minimum of 5+ years of experience in program management, project management, business analysis, technology delivery, or a related field, with demonstrated experience supporting enterprise HCM platforms.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional HCM programs or projects involving HR, payroll, finance, operations, technology teams, vendors, and senior leaders.
• Strong planning, organizational, facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, and time management skills.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable HCM solutions, delivery approaches, governance decisions, and operational readiness plans.
• Ability to interpret vendor feedback and provide recommendations to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Experience developing and presenting executive-level HCM reports, dashboards, status updates, decision materials, risk summaries, and implementation readiness updates.
• Strong understanding of program and project management disciplines, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, issue, dependency, resource, change, benefits, and stakeholder management.
• Experience supporting Agile or other delivery methodologies in enterprise platform, ERP, HRIS, payroll, workforce management, or HCM environments.
• Strong experience supporting Workday and UKG initiatives, including implementation planning, enhancement delivery, requirements definition, configuration coordination, workflow and business process alignment, integration coordination, testing, data validation, security and access considerations, reporting, stakeholder readiness, training support, adoption planning, issue resolution, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Working knowledge of HCM business processes such as core HR, payroll, time and attendance, absence management, benefits, talent, workforce scheduling, reporting, and employee self-service.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex HCM platform concepts, risks, tradeoffs, and implementation impacts to non-technical audiences.
• Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail.
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and related collaboration tools.
• Hands-on experience using Workday, UKG, and related enterprise tools to support program delivery, platform reporting, issue tracking, stakeholder communications, implementation governance, testing coordination, cutover planning, and executive-level decision support; experience with Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, DevOps, or equivalent tools preferred.
• PMP, PgMP, SAFe, Agile, Scrum, Prosci, ITIL, Workday, UKG, HRIS, or similar certification preferred.