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Posted Jun 1People Systems Lead - HRIS
at Lambdalabs
Remote
Responsibilities
- Own ongoing payroll operations partnership with the People and Accounting teams. - Integration & Data Architecture: Design and manage integrations between Workday and upstream/downstream systems (NetSuite, BigQuery, Okta/Lumos,
- - Stakeholder Enablement: Train and support end users across the People team, drive adoption, and build documentation and governance standards for tenant changes and release management.
Requirements
- Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers.
- Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers.
- If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us. *Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco or San Jose office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
- You will manage the implementation partner relationship through go-live, then build the in-house team that owns the platform on an ongoing basis.
- This role requires deep Workday domain expertise, payroll fluency, and the ability to translate People team needs into scalable, SOX-defensible solutions.
- At least one full-cycle Workday implementation including Payroll go-live as the customer-side architect or in-house owner. Prior
- experience at a high-growth or pre-IPO / public company strongly preferred. - Technical Expertise: Deep proficiency in Workday's data model, business process framework, security model, calculated fields, EIBs, Core Connectors, and Studio integrations.
- Working knowledge of SQL or Workday Report Writer, and familiarity with data pipelines (BigQuery, dbt, Fivetran, Workato). - People Domain Knowledge: Strong understanding of People processes including onboarding, offboarding, compensation planning,
- Comfortable speaking the language of HR Business Partners, People Ops, and Finance stakeholders. - Compliance & Controls: Practical knowledge of SOX
- Experience working with external auditors. - Communication & Leadership: Ability to work directly with senior People and Finance leadership and translate ambiguous
- Experience hiring, mentoring, or leading a People Systems team. Player-coach orientation: comfortable being hands-on while also growing a function. - AI Automation & Development: Hands-on
- experience leveraging AI/ML tools to enhance People workflows, whether through native HRIS capabilities, custom-built solutions, or third-party AI integrations. Nice to Have - Prior
- experience with Workday's API and programmatic integrations (REST, SOAP, RaaS). - International payroll
- Experience building internal AI-powered apps or prototypes (e.g., on AWS, Vercel, or similar) that augment People workflows. - Hands-on familiarity with NetSuite GL posting, Okta/Lumos identity governance, Greenhouse, Lattice, Carta, or Workato. - Prior
- experience migrating from Rippling, BambooHR, ADP, UKG, or SAP SuccessFactors to Workday.
- About Lambda - Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast - Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove - We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG - Our
Experience
- Experience: 10+ years in HRIS / People Systems, with at least 4+ years of hands-on Workday HCM and Payroll implementation and administration experience.
Benefits
- benefits carriers, 401(k), ATS, perf, equity admin) using Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, and Workato as appropriate. - Implementation Partner Management: Lead the Workday implementation partner relationship end-to-end: scope, SOW, sprint cadence, UAT, cutover, hypercare.
- benefits open enrollment, leaves of absence, performance management, and US payroll tax and compliance.
- Salary Range Information The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors.
- However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose
Additional details
- Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.
- We are seeking an experienced People Technology leader to own and scale our People Systems platform, with Workday as the core tool.
- This role will be central to deploying Workday HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Absence, and Talent capabilities as the company prepares for and operates as a public company.
- You will partner closely with the People team, Finance, Accounting, Legal, and Business Technology to design and deliver HR processes, payroll operations, and cross-functional workflows that give leadership accurate, auditable visibility into workforce data. Your
- responsibilities will include architecting Workday's tenant configuration, supervisory and security models, payroll setup, integration layer, and reporting framework.
- What You’ll Do - Platform Ownership: Own the end-to-end design, build, and administration of Workday HCM, including tenant configuration, supervisory orgs, business processes, security model, and environment management across implementation, sandbox, and production tenants. - Payroll Deployment & Operations: Lead the deployment of Workday Payroll (US first, international as scoped) with full SOX-compliant controls over pay calculation, tax filing, GL posting to NetSuite, and off-cycle processing.
- Hold the partner accountable to deliverables and timeline. - Reporting & Analytics: Build the People reporting and analytics layer: headcount close, attrition, comp planning, DEI, payroll register reconciliation.
- Feed clean headcount actuals into Pigment EPM for FP&A. - SOX & Compliance: Establish and enforce controls around payroll, comp, terminations, access provisioning, and master data changes.
- Partner with external SOX advisors on ITGC and IPE design for the People stack.
- - Team Building: Hire and grow a small in-house People Technology team (2-3 ICs over 12-18 months) covering Workday HCM/Payroll admin, integrations and reporting, and adjacent People Ops tooling.