Staff HRIS Analyst, Workday & AI-Driven People Tech

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

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Flexible PTO

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock-P

Growth and Development Fund

Parental leave

Home office support

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Staff HRIS Analyst, People Technology - Workday, to own and evolve our HRIS landscape, partnering with stakeholders to reduce friction and enable scalable, reliable people data across the company.

You will lead complex Workday initiatives, drive annual programs, and champion system governance, reporting, and integrations in a public-company, SOX ITGC-compliant environment.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Workday HCM

Workday configuration

Product ownership mindset

AI in HR tech

SOX ITGC

Tools

Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)

Workday integrations

Reporting tools

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Staff HRIS Analyst, People Technology - Workday, to own and evolve our HRIS landscape, partnering with stakeholders to reduce friction and enable scalable, reliable people data across the company.

You will lead complex Workday initiatives, drive annual programs, and champion system governance, reporting, and integrations in a public-company, SOX ITGC-compliant environment.