Workday Implementation Project Manager Jobs in California

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.
With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world.

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Senior Workday Implementation Specialist, joining our Global Payroll Implementation team.

In your role, you will be responsible for implementing and integrating multiple new customers onto our Remote Global Payroll platform where Workday serves as the core HCM system, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and seamless delivery within agreed timescales.

You will be reporting to the Manager, Global Payroll Workday Implementations.

• Proven experience implementing or integrating Workday HCM, ideally within a global payroll or HRIS context.
• Strong understanding of Workday modules including Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Time Tracking, and Integrations.
• Experience delivering end-to-end payroll implementations leveraging Workday as the source of truth for HR and employee data.
• Demonstrated ability to map and validate data between Workday and external payroll systems, ensuring compliance and data accuracy.
• Excellent and proficient understanding of global payroll operations, statutory compliance, and multi-country payroll setup.
• Strong customer onboarding and project management experience for complex, multi-entity implementations.
• Advanced data management and analysis skills (Google Sheets or Excel).
• An analytical, detail-oriented mindset with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, international environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with a customer-first mindset.
• Self-starter, comfortable working independently and asynchronously across time zones.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).
• Experience working remotely is a plus.
• Familiarity with Monday.com, Notion, Slack, and Salesforce is a plus.
• Knowledge of other payroll platforms is a plus.

• Lead end-to-end Workday payroll integrations for large and complex customers, ensuring successful setup, data migration, and go-live.
• Serve as the primary technical and functional point of contact for customers implementing Remote’s Global Payroll integrated with Workday.
• Analyse customers’ Workday environments to understand data structures, configurations, and dependencies for integration into Remote’s systems.
• Manage the data extraction, transformation, and validation processes between Workday and Remote’s Global Payroll platform.
• Partner closely with customers’ HRIS, Payroll, and IT teams to align HCM-to-Payroll data flows, ensuring accurate configuration and compliance.
• Configure Remote’s Payroll system on a customer-by-customer basis, ensuring adherence to local regulations and tax requirements.
• Coordinate and validate parallel payroll runs, reconciliations, and year-to-date adjustments to confirm setup accuracy.
• Oversee payroll go-live readiness, ensuring all integrations, validations, and compliance checks are complete.
• Transition customers to Payroll Operations teams with complete and accurate configuration documentation.
• Provide training and guidance to customers on Workday integration processes, data mapping, and payroll best practices.
• Maintain strong customer relationships to drive satisfaction, adoption, and retention.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for automation, scalability, and process optimisation.
• Maintain the confidentiality and integrity of customer and employee data at all times.
• Participate in quality assurance reviews of peer implementations to ensure consistency and compliance with Remote’s standards.
• Support the creation and maintenance of Workday integration playbooks and internal process documentation.

• You’ll report to: Manager, Global Payroll Implementations
• Team: Global Payroll Implementations
• Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply,

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries. At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook atremote.com/r/benefits . As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async .

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity.We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience.To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check seehere .

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