Senior People Systems Analyst

About the Company

The mining industry has steadily become worse at finding new ore deposits, requiring >10X more capital to make discoveries compared to 30 years ago. KoBold builds AI models for mineral exploration and deploys those models—alongside our novel sensors—to guide decisions on KoBold-owned-and-operated exploration programs.

About the Role

With over 300 employees across 12 countries, wrangling our People data into well-architected systems for smooth administration and analysis is challenging. We are looking for someone who is capable of building and maintaining systems and contributing to the execution of processes within those tools, such as onboarding and offboarding. The ideal candidate is a certified Workday Pro who thinks in first principles when configuring our tools and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Principal configurator of all Workday modules, reports, and business processes
• Thoughtfully architect our HR data across all places where it exists
• Manage the administration of review cycles within and outside of Workday
• Manage HR-related integrations in collaboration with IT
• Serve as our employee's point of contact for HR systems questions
• Configure and maintain various security roles and permissions
• Partner with internal teams to build reporting and tools that leverage HR data outside of our HR systems
• Contribute to the entry and management of employee data

Qualifications

• 5+ years of doing the work outlined in this job description
• Easily gets done whatever they need in Workday
• Better than any other HR person you have worked with at Excel (or, able to work with data programmatically or in more advanced analytical platforms – e.g., python notebooks, Tableau, Airtable/Coda, etc.)
• Power-user of AI; aggressively finds opportunities to use automation to replace repetitive manual repetitive work
• Easily gets done whatever they need in Workday
• Exceptional project management and communication skills
• First-principles thinker who can reference best practices without defaulting to them
• Intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn about all aspects of mineral exploration, particularly in the geology