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Staff Business Applications Lead, People Systems

Redwood Materials

Redwood Materials

IT, People & HR
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on May 20, 2025

About Redwood Materials

Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 to create a circular supply chain for electric vehicles and clean energy products, making them more sustainable and driving down the cost for batteries. We’re doing this by developing and deploying new technologies to increase the scope and scale of recycled and sustainable materials in the global battery supply chain.

Staff Business Applications Lead, People Systems

Essential Duties:

Redwood Materials is looking for a strategic, delivery focused Staff Business Applications Lead for People Systems to be a central technical focal point for all people applications. This role will collaborate with HR, IT, and business leaders to plan and deliver the people systems that enable the employee experience and provide key people analytics/insights to leadership. The successful candidate will develop the people applications roadmap, including continuous improvements for Workday and Greenhouse, drive technical integrations, develop the people application support strategy, and lead the technical people analytics strategy.

Responsibilities Will Include:

  • Bring an ownership mindset to people systems ensuring the technology enables the employee experience and delivers desired outcomes.
  • Define people systems roadmap and execution plan aligned with HR, IT and cross functional business objectives.
  • Build out robust, real time people data pipelines for reporting and dashboarding for various levels of leadership.
  • Ensure the accuracy and integrity of people analytics while driving adoption across the organization.
  • Lead the design, development, and delivery of robust people data integrations leveraging the single source of truth, Workday, to ensure accurate people and organizational data is reflected across the systems landscape.
  • Develop and implement a support strategy that will effectively educate users and have a robust feedback loop to identify, triage, and prevent common issues.
  • Approach people problems with a product mindset and translate to technical solutions that are tailored for the needs of Redwood Materials.
  • Analyze product data to drive strategic decisions and create efficient workflows.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
  • Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service. ·
  • Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, Human Resources, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 10+ years of experience with people systems, including demonstrated success implementing Workday
  • Proven track record of leading and delivering successful ERP solutions, preferably in large, complex organizations.
  • Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders, lead cross-functional teams, and manage external partners.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a results-oriented mindset.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to travel up to 25% to Redwood Materials or other key locations as required.

Physical Requirements:

  • Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
  • Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards
  • Must be able to talk, listen and speak clearly on telephone

Working Conditions:

  • Environment, such as office or outdoors.
  • Exposures encountered, loud noise, or extreme heat/cold.
  • Essential physical requirements, such as climbing, standing, stooping, or typing.
  • Indicate if required to work weekends, nights, or be on-call as a regular part of the job.
  • Travel requirements.

The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

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