Director, HR Applications – Workday

The Director, HR Applications – Workday will serve as the IT application leader responsible for the overall strategy, delivery, and support of the Workday HR application suite. This role will partner closely with HR business stakeholders, regional teams, and IT teams to drive Workday transformation, optimize business processes, and ensure the platform supports the company’s growth and evolving HR operating model.

This leader will oversee the Workday application landscape across Core HCM, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking, Talent, Performance, Reporting, Integrations, and related HR processes. The role will also work closely with the APAC team and other global partners to ensure consistent delivery, strong governance, operational excellence, and successful execution of major HR initiatives.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the overall strategy, roadmap, delivery, and support model for the Workday HR application suite.
• Partner with HR leadership and business stakeholders to align Workday capabilities with HR transformation goals and business priorities.
• Oversee major HR processes and annual cycles, including Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Performance, Talent, Absence, and employee lifecycle processes.
• Provide leadership and direction to global Workday teams, including APAC-based resources, technical architects, configuration teams, and support partners.
• Drive Workday enhancements, integrations, automation, reporting, and process improvements to improve employee and manager experience.
• Ensure strong governance around Workday security, access controls, business processes, data quality, integrations, and compliance requirements.
• Partner with Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, HR Operations, Legal, Finance, and IT teams to deliver scalable and compliant solutions.
• Lead prioritization of Workday initiatives, balancing business needs, platform capabilities, risk, and operational capacity.
• Support major transformation programs, system rollouts, vendor engagements, and Workday roadmap planning.
• Establish application support standards, documentation, release management, testing discipline, and production change controls.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to automate manual processes, reduce cycle time, and improve data accuracy.
• Serve as the senior IT point of contact for Workday-related strategy, escalations, and executive-level discussions.

REQUIRED:

• Strong experience leading Workday HR applications in a global enterprise environment.
• Deep understanding of Workday HCM and related modules such as Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking, Talent, Performance, Reporting, Security, and Integrations.
• Experience partnering with HR leadership and business stakeholders on strategic roadmap planning and transformation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of HR business processes, employee lifecycle management, compliance, data governance, and global HR operations.
• Proven ability to lead global teams, including offshore or APAC-based delivery and support teams.
• Experience managing major HR cycles such as compensation planning, benefits enrollment, payroll operations, performance cycles, and organizational changes.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to translate business needs into scalable Workday solutions and long-term application strategy.
• Experience with application governance, production support, release management, change management, and audit controls.

PREFERRED:

• Experience with Workday integrations, reporting, security, and business process configuration.
• Experience supporting global payroll, benefits, and compensation transformation programs.
• Familiarity with HR technology ecosystem integrations, including ServiceNow, payroll providers, recruiting/onboarding platforms, finance systems, and employee experience tools.
• Strong focus on automation, AI-enabled transformation, self-service, and employee experience improvements.
• Experience managing vendor partners, implementation partners, and internal technical teams.

Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Sandisk is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at jobs.accommodations@sandisk.com to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 10/08/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.  Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.