Senior HRIS Analyst (Workday)

Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, the most watched person in the world. Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, Beast Industries encompasses a diverse portfolio of ventures that extend far beyond its origins on YouTube. With a mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact, Beast Industries operates across various domains including digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives. At Beast Industries, we believe in the transformative power of digital media and its potential to entertain, educate, and effect positive change. Our commitment to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy drives us to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build a legacy that inspires future generations.

Location: Chicago, IL or New York, NY

Architect the digital backbone of global HR operations through Workday

MrBeast is looking for an analytical, strategic, and tech-savvy Senior HRIS Analyst (Workday) to join our General team working on scaling our global HR and IT infrastructure. In this role, you will serve as a techno-functional subject matter expert responsible for designing, optimizing, and maintaining Workday across the entire employee lifecycle. You will thrive in a fast-paced environment, ensuring top-tier data integrity, seamless integrations, and actionable workforce visibility through advanced analytics.

• Lead the architectural design, delivery, and ongoing evolution of Workday to support evolving organizational goals across HR, IT, and Finance.
• Serve as the primary system administrator for Workday Core HCM, managing business process configurations, security roles, and calculated fields.
• Architect and maintain seamless integrations between Workday and external ecosystem tools, including Deel, Greenhouse, Britehire, 15Five, and Okta.
• Build and support robust integrations utilizing Workday Studio, EIBs, and REST/SOAP APIs.
• Establish automated ETL data pipelines using tools like Airbyte or Fivetran to extract Workday data into centralized data warehouses (Snowflake/BigQuery).
• Drive executive decision-making by creating advanced reporting solutions, executive dashboards, and leveraging Workday People Analytics and Prism Analytics.
• Own end-to-end Workday release management, feature evaluation, and regression testing to ensure continuous operational uptime with zero unhandled production issues.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable technical specifications while developing documentation and change management strategies to support user adoption.

• 8 years of total HRIS/HR technology administration experience, with 5 years of direct, hands-on Workday configuration in mid-sized or fast-growth organizations.
• Deep functional expertise in Workday Core HCM, Compensation, Benefits, and Time Tracking modules.
• Advanced technical proficiency building integrations using Workday Studio, EIBs, APIs, and managing Workday security architecture (ISUs and security groups).
• Hands-on experience working with SQL, ETL tools (Airbyte or Fivetran), and cloud data warehouses (Snowflake or BigQuery).
• Familiarity with Workday People Analytics, Prism Analytics, and custom dashboard creation.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills, with a proven ability to bridge the gap between technical specs and business needs.
• Uncompromising focus on data integrity, system security, and operational quality under tight deadlines.
• Experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments supporting modern enterprise tools (e.g., Okta, Greenhouse, Deel) is a strong plus.

The target total compensation ranges from $200,250 - $278,450 including a fixed annual salary of $135,000– $203,000, an employee equity plan grant, bonus, plus comprehensive benefits.

Equity grants are issued in good faith, subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility.

We are redefining what entertainment and storytelling look like at global scale. Every piece of content we publish reaches millions and influences culture in real time. This is your opportunity to lead the team that decides how those moments come to life across every screen.

• Competitive Salary
• Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Dental, Vision and company-paid Life Insurance 
• Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA) 
• 401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
• Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
• Company-provided technology package 
• Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days