People Operations & Employee Lifecycle Specialist

Role Overview

As a People Operations & Employee Lifecycle Specialist, you will co-create, enable, and deliver people processes that power a high-quality, compliant, and scalable employee experience across the full employee lifecycle. Partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including People Operations, Digital Experience, IT/HRIS, Business People Partners, and Centers of Excellence to translate business needs into practical workflows, eliminate manual work through automation, and drive data integrity and operational excellence.

What You Will Do

Design, standardize, and continuously improve global operational processes across the employee lifecycle, including hiring, onboarding, employee changes, and offboarding. Drive continuous improvement of people operational processes using structured project and process management methodologies (e.g., Lean/Six Sigma) and maintain documentation standards to ensure lifecycle processes meet policy, regulatory, and data integrity requirements.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role is ideal for a bold, action-oriented change agent who thrives in fast-paced environments and brings strong problem-solving, system thinking, and connector instincts. Through high-impact collaboration and delivery across the people portfolio, you will help advance our people operations processes, empowering people leaders, enabling teams to thrive, and meaningfully elevating the employee experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, IT, Business Administration, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years of Workday and ServiceNow experience with business process and functional expertise
• Strong project management capabilities with experience in driving mid-sized Workday and ServiceNow projects
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including partnering effectively with senior HR leaders and cross-functional stakeholders
• Proven ability to thrive amid ambiguity and competing priorities, delivering results on multiple complex projects with minimal supervision
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities with the ability to translate business needs into scalable solutions
• Passion for operational excellence, optimizing processes, creating comprehensive documentation, and driving efficiency
• Experience in HR Operations, People Operations, or HR Business Partnering; demonstrated experience with formal process mapping and documentation
• Lean, Kaizen, Six Sigma, or operational excellence experience (certification or equivalent hands-on work)

Benefits

• 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
• The Sandisk’s Savings 401(k) Plan