Workday Recruiting Senior Principal Consultant

Overview

As a senior Workday Recruiting expert and delivery leader, you guide the design, configuration, and successful delivery of recruiting solutions for clients. You act as a trusted advisor, aligning Workday Recruiting with business goals and leading complex solution discussions. You mentor teams, support pre-sales activities, and shape practice development to scale the Workday recruiting practice. This role combines strategic guidance with hands-on delivery across medium to large implementations, including stakeholder engagement and post-go-live transition.

Pay / Benefits

• entrepreneurial environment
• opportunity to do great work
• outreach programs
• learning opportunities
• global operations
• Affinity groups

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior Workday Recruiting SME guiding talent acquisition strategy and best practices
• Lead workshops, discovery sessions, and design discussions to define scalable Workday Recruiting solutions
• Own solution design and oversee configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live activities
• Functional lead for medium to large Workday Recruiting deployments, managing risks and decisions
• Provide strategic guidance on recruiting processes, candidate lifecycle, and hiring workflows
• Collaborate with HCM, Talent, Learning, Security, Reporting, Integrations, Change Management, and Project Management teams
• Support testing, data conversion, cutover, and deployment throughout the project lifecycle
• Mentor and coach consultants, providing quality reviews and leadership
• Contribute to business development through solutioning, estimations, proposals, and presentations
• Contribute to practice development via methodology improvements, training, assets, and knowledge sharing
• Maintain expertise in Workday Recruiting functionality and trends

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Active Workday Recruiting Certification required
• Additional Workday certifications in HCM, Talent, or Learning desirable
• 5+ years of Workday implementation experience with multiple end-to-end deployments
• Proven experience leading Workday Recruiting workstreams on medium to large implementations
• Deep functional expertise in talent acquisition processes, recruiting operations, and candidate lifecycle management
• Experience gathering requirements, facilitating workshops, solution design, configuration, testing, and deployment
• Experience supporting pre-sales activities including estimations, proposals, and presentations
• Strong leadership, mentoring, stakeholder management, and consulting skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with executive stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment
• Eligible for UK SC Clearance and willing to travel on-site as needed
• Minimal travel required, on-site as needed

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• mentoring
• Workday Recruiting
• HCM
• Talent

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