HRIS Manager

The Role, In a Nutshell:

Are you passionate about leveraging HR technology to improve the employee experience, streamline operations, and drive data-driven decision-making? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments where you can own, optimize, and expand critical systems?

At Chainguard, we’re scaling rapidly, and we need an HRIS Manager to ensure our HR systems and data infrastructure are accurate, efficient, and set up for long-term success.

This role is more than just maintaining an HRIS—it’s about driving system improvements, integrations, and automation to meet evolving business needs. You will serve as the go-to expert for our People Team tech stack, ensuring that our HR systems support our people, processes, and strategic objectives.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role with the potential to grow into team leadership as our People function expands. If you have deep expertise in HR systems administration, data integrity, and process optimization, this is your opportunity to shape the HR technology foundation of a high-growth company

What You’ll Do:

• System Administration: Serve as the primary administrator for Workday, managing configuration, security, workflows, and integrations.
• Process Optimization: Partner with HR, Payroll, IT, and other stakeholders to design and implement scalable, efficient processes within the HRIS.
• Reporting & Analytics: Build and maintain reports and dashboards to support data-driven decision-making for leaders across the organization.
• System Enhancements: Evaluate, test, and implement new features, modules, and system updates to improve functionality and user experience.
• Training & Documentation: Develop and deliver training resources, user guides, and best practices to improve adoption and maximize system usage.
• Data Integrity: Maintain data accuracy and compliance with data privacy regulations; establish governance standards and conduct regular audits.
• Vendor Management: Coordinate with Workday and third-party vendors for technical support, issue resolution, and enhancement projects.

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years of experience administering HRIS platforms, preferably in high-growth or global environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with system configuration, reporting, and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and projects in a fast-paced setting.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Clear and collaborative communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with Workday administration, including multiple modules (Core HCM, Advance Compensation, Benefits, Performance, etc.).
• Familiarity with HR processes across the full employee lifecycle.
• Experience with HRIS integrations and data governance best practices.
• Understanding of compliance and data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).

Why You’ll Love It Here:

• Impact & Ownership: You’ll have the autonomy to design and optimize HR systems that support our global workforce.
• Fast-Paced Growth: You’ll be building processes and infrastructure that scale with us as we expand.
• People-First Culture: Our HR systems are built to enhance—not hinder—the employee experience.
• Collaboration & Trust: Work closely with HR, Finance, and IT leadership to deliver strategic initiatives.
• Flexibility & Remote-First Work: Manage your time and work from where you’re most productive.

Base Salary Range

$140,000 - $170,000 USD

About Us

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.

Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.

Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.

We live and breathe our company values:

We are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.

We have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.

We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.

We trust each other and assume good intentions - We’re transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A few of the benefits we offer:

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a $400 monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
• For a full list of our benefits and rewards, click here.

If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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