Staff HRIS Analyst, People Technology - Workday

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 126,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Flexible PTO

Equity compensation & ESPP

Growth and development fund

Parental leave

Home office support

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an experienced HRIS Product Owner to lead Workday across HCM, compensation, and benefits, while integrating the broader People tech ecosystem. The role focuses on scoping root needs, designing durable solutions, and ensuring secure governance in a public company setting.

You will drive reporting, analytics, and data-driven decisions, partnering with stakeholders to scale People operations and enable a proactive, AI-enabled workflow culture.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Workday experience across HCM, compensation, benefits, time tracking, talent, performance, and security.
• AI-forward approach to automate workflows and accelerate analysis.
• Experience building and scaling people technology in a public company with SOX ITGC.
• Product ownership mindset with strong stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Own the HRIS product roadmap and drive system evolution.
• Diagnose root needs and co-design durable solutions.
• Lead Workday configuration, release readiness, and testing for annual programs.
• Build and govern integrations across the People tech ecosystem.
• Define and enforce security and access governance.
• Create reports and dashboards for data-driven decisions.
• Drive mass data changes with testing and accuracy.
• Elevate system capability enabling self-sufficient users.

Skills

Workday HCM

SOX ITGC

AI workflows

Product ownership

Data reporting

Systems integration

Stakeholder comms

Security governance

Tools

EIB

Job description

What You’ll Do

• Own the HRIS product roadmap-proactively identifying gaps, championing improvements, and driving system evolution that reduces friction and enables scale across People operations.
• Push past surface-level requests to diagnose root needs, challenge assumptions, and co-design solutions that are durable, efficient, and built to last.
• Lead Workday configuration, release readiness, and testing for annual People programs and system updates to support on-time launches and smoother releases.
• Build and govern integrations across the People technology ecosystem, including troubleshooting issues and improving system reliability and uptime.
• Define and enforce security and access governance practices across People systems-navigating SOX ITGC requirements with fluency, keeping innovation moving rather than stalled.
• Create reports, dashboards, and analyses that help stakeholders make faster, more informed decisions with clearer and more reliable people data.
• Drive mass data changes, policy rollouts, and system updates with careful testing and strong attention to detail to keep data changes accurate and on schedule.
• Elevate system capability across the organization-enabling users and building toward a self-sufficient workforce that gets the most from the tools available to them.

What You’ll Bring

• Deep, hands-on Workday expertise across HCM, compensation, benefits, time tracking, talent, performance, and security—with a track record of driving outcomes, not just managing configurations.
• Bring an AI-forward approach to people technology — actively experimenting with and applying AI tools to automate workflows, accelerate analysis, and eliminate manual work, while helping the team build the literacy to do the same.
• Experience building and scaling people technology in a public company environment with working knowledge of SOX ITGC requirements.
• Ability to approach people systems with a product ownership mindset, including defining problems, evaluating tradeoffs, and owning outcomes.
• Strong integration experience, including Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) and related Workday ecosystem tools, with the instinct to build solutions that are scalable, not just functional.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to turn complex system logic into clear requirements, decisions, and stakeholder updates.
• Sound judgment in assessing business impact, downstream effects, and change management implications when designing system changes.
• Consulting instincts and presence: you've led design discussions, navigated ambiguity, and earned trust as the person stakeholders come to when they need a true thought partner, not just a ticket taker.
• Intellectual curiosity and a bias for action—you don't wait to be told what to fix; you find it, frame it, and drive it forward.

About the team

The People Technology team builds and maintains the systems foundation that helps GitLab scale as a global, all-remote company. We work across core people systems, integrations, reporting, and compliance, partnering asynchronously with stakeholders in multiple regions to improve reliability, usability, and insight across the tools that enable the People organization. We are focused on creating scalable, resilient solutions that reduce friction for teams, strengthen compliance, and make it easier for GitLab team members and leaders to do their best work.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity . Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

United States Salary Range $126,400 - $213,600 USD

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification.

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Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.

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