People Data Program Strategist

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Employee Success Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Employee Success (ES) is made up of human resources (HR) professionals who come together to continue to build Salesforce with a goal of helping our employees do the best work of their lives. In Employee Success, we attract and retain the top talent critical to building out our organization. Whether we are recruiting the next great candidate for our company, building out new programs, or refining our current operations, Employee Success is passionate about the design, development and delivery of a world-class employee experience, which allows Salesforce to deliver a world-class customer experience in the market. Salesforce is looking for a People Data Program Strategist to join the HRIS team. This role plays a critical function in delivering seamless employee data execution across global HR programs and transformations—including M&A, job architecture redesigns, reorganizations, large-scale promotions, and system implementations. This individual focuses on data strategy, operational alignment, and program enablement—ensuring Workday and downstream systems are prepared, integrated, and governed appropriately. The ideal candidate will work across HR Centers of Excellence, DET, and global program owners to scope requirements, manage dependencies, mitigate risks, and drive end-to-end data readiness. Our Search: Responsibilities: Provide expertise in business analysis, facilitation and needs analysis, and solutions to needs * Understand and define roles and responsibilities for new or existing projects and programs * Define business requirements and lead cross-functional planning of data needs for complex HR programs * Evaluate data impacts, process changes, risks, and mitigation strategies across platforms and systems * Serve as a strategic partner to HR program owners, DET, and HRIS to align data timelines and system constraints * Develop practical specifications and conversion strategies that uphold data integrity and compliance * Facilitate testing and validation efforts during user acceptance testing (UAT), supporting cutover and hypercare as needed * Translate business goals into technical deliverables and ensure seamless handoffs to execution teams— data quality and data processing teams * Gather and clarify requirements using interviews, process maps, use cases, workshops, and data flow documentation Oversee end-to-end data readiness and execution for global ES programs, driving alignment, risk management, and seamless cutover while enabling stakeholders through training, communication, and strategic partnership. * Lead data readiness efforts including limited transaction planning windows, exception handling, and stakeholder alignment * Develop and maintain trackers, readiness tools, and cutover runbooks to support repeatable execution * Manage risks and issues logs, driving resolution through clear ownership and escalation pathways * Communicate status and risks to program leadership and executive sponsors with clarity and urgency * Partner with change management to assess system/process impacts and contribute to stakeholder enablement plans * Partner and advise Data Quality and Data Processing on best pract ... (truncated, view full listing at source)