# Staff Product Analyst (Workday Total Rewards & HCM)

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $148,000-$203,500 USD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/okta/jobs/7786209
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_f0213e2c-b39

## Description

We are looking for a Staff Product Analyst, Workday Total Rewards & HCM to join our People Technology Team. Working closely with People Technology leaders, you will play a critical role in the ongoing global optimisation of Okta's Workday platform, with a primary focus on Benefits and Advanced Compensation configuration and enhancements, while also supporting Core HCM processes as part of a broader Total Rewards scope.

You will work across departments and geographies, partnering with teams across People, Payroll, IT, Finance, and international offices. This is a great fit for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, working cross-functionally, and making a tangible impact on how our global workforce operates.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Own the end-to-end Workday configuration lifecycle across Benefits, Advanced Compensation and Core HCM, from requirements gathering and solution design through testing, deployment, and adoption

- Lead and support annual events including Open Enrollment and Annual Compensation Reviews, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and a seamless employee experience

- Build and maintain custom reports, dashboards, and hubs that deliver actionable insights to business stakeholders

- Manage Workday upgrades and evaluate new functionality to identify opportunities for process improvement and automation

- Identify gaps in system utilisation and champion the adoption of standard Workday features to reduce manual work and improve efficiency

- Support knowledge sharing and capability building across the People Technology team through hands-on training and documentation

**Requirements:**

- 7+ years of Workday experience with deep hands-on expertise in Benefits and Advanced Compensation configuration (4+ years in Advanced Compensation), with working knowledge of Core HCM

- Strong understanding of Total Rewards business processes and how configuration decisions impact the end-user experience and platform adoption

- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable solutions and evaluate trade-offs across multiple configuration approaches

- Experience managing a backlog of enhancements and prioritising across competing business needs and technical constraints

- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and translate technical concepts into clear business language

- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across People, Payroll, Finance, and IT in a fast-paced, global environment

- Design, build, test, and deploy Workday integrations using EIBs, Core Connectors, and Report as a Service (RaaS)

**Nice to Have:**

- Workday Certifications in Benefits, Advance Comp, Core HCM

- Experience with additional Workday modules such as Time Tracking, Absence, Payroll, or Talent Management

## Skills

### Required
- Workday
- Benefits and Advanced Compensation configuration
- Core HCM
- Total Rewards business processes
- Configuration decisions
- Scalable solutions
- Trade-offs
- Backlog management
- Prioritisation
- Communication skills
- Senior stakeholders
- Technical concepts
- Collaboration
- People, Payroll, Finance, and IT