Senior Manager, Workday Platform & Enterprise Applications

Senior Manager, Workday Platform & Enterprise Applications

American Fork, Utah, United States

LVT is redefining how businesses operate in the physical world, moving beyond traditional security solutions to deliver AI-driven, actionable intelligence that makes sites smarter, safer, and more secure. Since pioneering our first mobile, solar-powered units, our commitment to scrappy, hands-on innovation has made us an established leader and one of the fastest-growing companies in intelligent site technology. We are building the next generation of solutions—from our physical units in the field to a powerful Agentic AI platform—that allows our customers to gain unprecedented visibility and control over safety, compliance, and operations. This is your chance to join a cutting-edge team that isn't just watching the world change, but actively building the technology that is changing it.

We're a team that's focused on growth and innovation, and we're proud that our crew, products, and leadership are being recognized for it.

• A Top-Tier Growth Company: Named one of the Financial Times' Fastest Growing Companies 2025 and #10 on the Inc. 5000 Rocky Mountain Regional list for 2025.
• Innovative Leadership: Our CEO, Ryan Porter, was named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2025, and our CTO, Steve Lindsey, was inducted into the Silicon Slopes CTO Hall of Fame in 2024.
• Product & Software Excellence: We were named one of The Software Report's Top 100 Software Companies of 2023 and are a winner of the Security Today Govies Award for 2025.

We are seeking a highly experienced and hands-on Senior Workday Manager to lead the strategy, governance, and operational excellence of our Workday platform across all modules. This individual will serve as the enterprise owner of Workday, ensuring system stability, optimization, integrations, security, and business alignment.

The ideal candidate has deep functional and technical expertise across Workday HCM, Payroll, and other Workday related modules, while also possessing strong managerial leadership and vendor management experience. This role requires close partnership with business stakeholders, IT teams, and third-party service providers.

This is a hands-on leadership role — not purely administrative — requiring active involvement in configuration, troubleshooting, integrations, and system design.

This role is based out of our Utah Headquarters (preferred) and reports directly to our CIO. We may consider highly-qualified remote candidates with required regular travel.

Role Responsibilities

• Platform Strategy & Governance: Own the overall strategy, roadmap, and governance of the Workday ecosystem. Provide deep expertise across: Core HCM, Payroll, Time Tracking, Recruiting & Talent, Benefits, Financials (GL, AP, AR, Expenses, Assets, Projects), Procurement & SCM, Adaptive Planning, Prism / Reporting, and Security & SoD. Lead biannual Workday release management and impact analysis and ensure system performance, scalability, and compliance.
• Hands-On Configuration & Support: Configure and maintain Workday business processes, security roles, reports, calculated fields, integrations, and notifications, Troubleshoot complex production issues across functional domains, review and approve configuration changes before deployment, lead testing efforts for enhancements and upgrades, ensure documentation of system design, changes, and architecture.
• Cross-System Architecture: Oversee integrations between Workday and enterprise systems (ERP - Oracle, SAP, NetSuite, CRM - Salesforce, ITSM - ServiceNow, payroll vendors, banking systems, and data warehouses) and partner with architects to define data flows, transformation logic, and reconciliation controls. Ensure reconciliation controls between Workday and downstream systems.
• Business Partnership: Act as trusted advisor to HR, Finance, Payroll, and Operations leaders. Translate business requirements into scalable system solutions. Lead workshops for process redesign and optimization. Identify automation opportunities to improve efficiency. Drive continuous improvement initiatives across business processes.
• Team Leadership & Governance: Lead and mentor a team of internal and external Workday analysts and administrators, establish operating model for Workday support (intake, prioritization, SLAs), develop KPIs for system performance and support effectiveness, ensure proper segregation of duties and security governance, provide executive-level updates on platform health and roadmap.
• Vendor & Compliance Management: Manage relationships with Workday AMS providers, implementation partners, integration partners, payroll vendors. Ensure vendors adhere to security, compliance, and SLA requirements, and lead escalations when necessary.
• Compliance & Controls Success: Partner with Internal Audit on: SoD design and remediation, access reviews, control documentation, audit readiness, ensure proper documentation of configuration and business processes, maintain data privacy and regulatory compliance (SOX, HIPAA, GDPR as applicable).

Our Ideal Candidate

• Extensive Domain Expertise: You possess 7+ years of enterprise applications experience, with at least 5 years of deep, hands-on Workday experience specifically across both HCM and Financials (must have both) and experience supporting Payroll within Workday.
• Technical Proficiency: You have a proven track record in Workday configuration (not just oversight) and managing integrations using EIB, Core Connectors, Studio, and APIs. Strong understanding of enterprise architecture and data flows.
• Leadership Mindset: You are a strategic thinker with a high ownership mindset, comfortable leading cross-functional teams and managing third-party AMS providers and vendors.
• Stakeholder Management: You can bridge the gap between technical IT requirements and senior business stakeholder needs, providing clear, executive-level updates on platform health. Experience working with senior business stakeholders.
• Agile & Adaptive: You thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments and possess the "systems thinking" necessary to solve complex architectural challenges.

Benefits

We believe you do your best work when your whole life is supported. We invest in our crew's health, families, and financial futures with a benefits package designed to support you inside and outside the office. Full-time benefits include, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%), and flexible PTO.

LVT is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. All candidates must pass a drug screening and background check upon employment. Some roles may also require passing a federal background check and fingerprinting. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, and/or to perform essential job functions, please reach out to your recruiter.