Mid Level Human Capital Management Jobs
Mid level human capital management jobs go to professionals ready to own workforce initiatives end to end, mentor junior HR staff, and shape people-strategy decisions with limited day-to-day oversight. Openings run across Accounting & Auditing, Technology & Software, and Consulting & Professional Services, with a mix of on-site, remote, and hybrid settings, and employers like Paylocity, Paychex, and Argano hiring at this level now.
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INTRODUCTION
Your work days are brighter here.
We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Workday Success Plans (WSP) Team are all about our customers and their post launch journey. We build programs to help them drive business value from their Workday applications. The team delivers a variety of programs and services to our customers ranging from feature demonstrations to full feature deployments. At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too! We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Sr. Functional Consultant, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful implementation of Workday's product solutions. You will provide your implementation expertise to our clients while understanding how to best configure and test Workday solutions to meet their business requirements.
ABOUT YOU
The ideal candidate will have a broad and deep understanding of all areas of Workday HCM Reporting & Analytics including Report Writer, Prism Analytics, Composite Reporting, Calculated Fields, Dashboards, Discovery Boards, and Worksheets. The candidate has demonstrable understanding of professional services and enablement services as it relates to enterprise software in the Cloud.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5+ years of HCM Reporting, Analytics, and Data warehousing experience for enterprise software applications
- 3+ years of proven ability building and maintaining Workday HCM Reporting & Analytics
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability to work multi-functional as a “virtual” team leader and possess strong and effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to customize approach for a variety of audiences
- Capable of influencing, interacting and collaborating with senior management and technical resources both internally and externally
- Ability to perform effective product demonstrations as part of any enablement program
- Experience implementing Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft or similar software applications
- Experience working with BI Tools (Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Business Objects)
- Understanding of data modeling concepts with an ability to manipulate data using software tools and SQL
- Workday Certification in at least one of the following: Workday Financials, Workday HCM, Workday Reporting
- Ability to gain a thorough understanding of Workday concepts as new features are released
- Ability to distill complex concepts into understandable presentations for our customers
- Strong critical thinking skills so as to understand sophisticated, technical process issues and facilitate/influence decision making
- Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience required
- Professional services experience is a plus
- Ability to travel up to 10%
COMPENSATION
- Primary Location Base Pay Range: $122,800 USD - $184,200 USD
- Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $111,000 USD - $197,300 USD
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.
LOCATION
Primary Location: USA.IL.Chicago
OUR APPROACH TO FLEXIBLE WORK
With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree. Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law.
Workday prohibits taking adverse action against any candidate or employee for reporting a possible violation of this policy, requesting one or more work accommodations, exercising a privacy right, or cooperating in an investigation in accordance with applicable law. Any employee who retaliates against a candidate or employee for doing so may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment, to the fullest extent allowable under applicable law.
If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email accommodations@workday.com, as far in advance as possible.
ARE YOU BEING REFERRED TO ONE OF OUR ROLES?
If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!
At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers.
Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not.
In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.
INTRODUCTION
Your work days are brighter here.
We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Workday Success Plans (WSP) Team are all about our customers and their post launch journey. We build programs to help them drive business value from their Workday applications. The team delivers a variety of programs and services to our customers ranging from feature demonstrations to full feature deployments. At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too! We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Sr. Functional Consultant, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful implementation of Workday's product solutions. You will provide your implementation expertise to our clients while understanding how to best configure and test Workday solutions to meet their business requirements.
ABOUT YOU
The ideal candidate will have a broad and deep understanding of all areas of Workday HCM Reporting & Analytics including Report Writer, Prism Analytics, Composite Reporting, Calculated Fields, Dashboards, Discovery Boards, and Worksheets. The candidate has demonstrable understanding of professional services and enablement services as it relates to enterprise software in the Cloud.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5+ years of HCM Reporting, Analytics, and Data warehousing experience for enterprise software applications
- 3+ years of proven ability building and maintaining Workday HCM Reporting & Analytics
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability to work multi-functional as a “virtual” team leader and possess strong and effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to customize approach for a variety of audiences
- Capable of influencing, interacting and collaborating with senior management and technical resources both internally and externally
- Ability to perform effective product demonstrations as part of any enablement program
- Experience implementing Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft or similar software applications
- Experience working with BI Tools (Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Business Objects)
- Understanding of data modeling concepts with an ability to manipulate data using software tools and SQL
- Workday Certification in at least one of the following: Workday Financials, Workday HCM, Workday Reporting
- Ability to gain a thorough understanding of Workday concepts as new features are released
- Ability to distill complex concepts into understandable presentations for our customers
- Strong critical thinking skills so as to understand sophisticated, technical process issues and facilitate/influence decision making
- Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience required
- Professional services experience is a plus
- Ability to travel up to 10%
COMPENSATION
- Primary Location Base Pay Range: $122,800 USD - $184,200 USD
- Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $111,000 USD - $197,300 USD
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.
LOCATION
Primary Location: USA.IL.Chicago
OUR APPROACH TO FLEXIBLE WORK
With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree. Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law.
Workday prohibits taking adverse action against any candidate or employee for reporting a possible violation of this policy, requesting one or more work accommodations, exercising a privacy right, or cooperating in an investigation in accordance with applicable law. Any employee who retaliates against a candidate or employee for doing so may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment, to the fullest extent allowable under applicable law.
If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email accommodations@workday.com, as far in advance as possible.
ARE YOU BEING REFERRED TO ONE OF OUR ROLES?
If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!
At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers.
Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not.
In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.
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Who's Hiring
- Paylocity28
- Paychex3
- Argano2
- Digital Realty2
- ADP1
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- Accounting & Auditing31
- Technology & Software9
- Consulting & Professional Services4
- Construction & Real Estate2
- Fintech1
Mid Level Human Capital Management Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a mid level human capital management job?
Position your experience around ownership and impact, not just task completion. Highlight moments where you led a workforce initiative, managed a full hiring cycle, or introduced a people-operations improvement that had measurable results. Tailor your resume to show depth in a specialization like talent acquisition, HRIS, or compensation, and make clear you can work with minimal supervision on complex HR projects.
Which companies hire mid level human capital managements?
Companies hiring mid level human capital managements right now include Paylocity, Paychex, and Argano, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Mid-size and enterprise employers across both private and public sectors tend to hire at this level as they build out dedicated people-operations teams and need professionals who can run programs independently.
Are there remote mid level human capital management jobs?
Yes, remote and hybrid options are widely available at this experience level. About 84% of mid level human capital management openings are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting a broader shift toward flexible work in HR and people-operations functions. Roles focused on HRIS administration, talent operations, and workforce analytics tend to offer the most location flexibility.
How do I move up to a mid level human capital management role?
Growth from entry level into mid level human capital management comes from deepening a specialization, such as benefits administration, employee relations, or recruiting operations, while progressively taking ownership of full projects rather than supporting pieces of them. Demonstrating measurable impact, such as reducing time-to-fill or improving retention metrics, signals readiness. Earning an HR certification like PHR or SHRM-CP also strengthens your case for advancement.
Which industries hire the most mid level human capital managements?
Mid Level human capital management roles concentrate in Accounting & Auditing, Technology & Software, and Consulting & Professional Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. These sectors tend to have large and complex workforces that require dedicated HR professionals capable of independently managing programs like performance management cycles, compliance training, and workforce planning at scale.