Principal HR Technology Consultant

PTC is seeking a Principal HR Technology Consultant to serve as a strategic partner to our various business functions and departments. This role sits at the intersection of technology, process design, and stakeholder consulting, helping ensure our Workday ecosystem supports scalable, efficient, and compliant People processes.

This is not a traditional HRIS administration role. We’re looking for someone who can blend strong Workday functional expertise with business consulting and stakeholder partnership. The ideal candidate understands how to evaluate requests through both a technical and organizational lens, balancing system capabilities, user experience, process impact, and long-term sustainability.

What You’ll Do

Strategic Business Partnership

• Serve as the primary HR Technology partner for assigned business functions, with an initial focus on Talent Acquisition and the flexibility to support evolving business priorities across the organization.
• Act as the primary HR Technology partner for assigned business functions, helping stakeholders identify priorities and define technology roadmaps.
• Lead recurring monthly and quarterly stakeholder meetings to review business priorities, discuss enhancement requests, and align on future needs.
• Translate business challenges into scalable technology and process solutions.

Workday & Process Optimization

• Evaluate project and enhancement requests to determine whether system changes, process changes, reporting solutions, or alternative approaches best address business needs.
• Partner with Centers of Excellence (COEs) to document future-state processes and ensure alignment between business requirements and technology capabilities.
• Configure and optimize Workday functionality across Talent Acquisition and other HR domains as needed.
• Troubleshoot system issues and drive solutions through root-cause analysis.
• Provide guidance on Workday best practices, system capabilities, and the long-term implications of configuration decisions.

Delivery

• Support the evaluation, planning, testing, and implementation of Workday enhancements, leading test strategy, execution, validation, and user acceptance testing to ensure solutions meet business requirements.
• Partner with HR, Talent Acquisition, COEs, IT, and global stakeholders to deliver integrated solutions, facilitate alignment, and support integrations, enhancements, and technical issue resolution.
• Maintain compliance with governance, security, and audit requirements while promoting best practices, data integrity, and scalable, sustainable solutions aligned with enterprise standards., * Thinks like a consultant, not an administrator.
• Can independently take ownership of ambiguous challenges and drive them to resolution.
• Understands both the technical and human side of system changes.
• Can explain complex Workday concepts in simple business language.
• Builds credibility stakeholders.
• Brings recommendations, not just answers.
• Considers process, adoption, compliance, and user experience before making system changes.
• Is comfortable taking a problem, leveraging available resources, and driving a solution with minimal direction.

• Strong consulting, facilitation, and communication skills.
• 5+ years experience supporting Workday in multiple modules, Talent Acquisition and Talent modules a bonus but not required
• Experience configuring and optimizing Workday functionality.
• Strong understanding of HR business processes
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable system solutions.
• Experience conducting testing, validation, and user acceptance activities.
• Demonstrated success influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and balance competing priorities.
• Experience working across global, matrixed organizations., If you share our passion for problem-solving through innovation, you’ll likely become just as passionate about the PTC experience as we are. Are you ready to explore your next career move with us?

$115,000-$140,000 life insurance, vision insurance, paid time off, sick time, tuition reimbursement, 401(k) United States, Massachusetts, Boston 121 Seaport Boulevard (Show on map) Jul 31, 2026, PTC carefully considers a wide variety of factors when determining compensation. The anticipated annual salary range for this position is between $115,000-$140,000. The salary range reflects a good-faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Additionally, candidates may be eligible for a performance-based bonus. Employees also have the opportunity to become a PTC shareholder through our employee share purchase program (ESPP), which allows for the purchase of discounted PTC stock. Certain roles may also be eligible for participation in our equity programs. Employees may be eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance, paid time off and sick leave, tuition reimbursement, 401(k) contributions and employer match, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage and, if you are an office-assigned employee, a generous commuter subsidy. All total rewards and benefits programs are subject to applicable plan eligibility and other terms and conditions.

Our world is transforming, and PTC is leading the way.Our software brings the physical and digital worlds together, enabling companies to improve operations, create better products, and empower people in all aspects of their business.

Our people make all the difference in our success. Today, we are a global team of nearly 7,000 and our main objective is to create opportunities for our team members to explore, learn, and grow - all while seeing their ideas come to life and celebrating the differences that make us who we are and the work we do possible., Life at PTC is about more than working with today’s most cutting-edge technologies to transform the physical world. It’s about showing up as you are and working alongside some of today’s most talented industry leaders to transform the world around you.