Principal / Senior Partner Technical Enablement Lead, Workday Wellness
Workday
- Location
- USA IL Chicago
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Principal
- H-1B history
- 103 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- Aug 13, 2026
Skills
About this role
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
It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. In the Workday Global Partner Organization, we believe that partners are essential to delivering outstanding customer experiences and extraordinary business results. We are passionate about what our partners do for our customers, we work hard, we're serious about what we do, and we have fun doing it. The Partner Strategy and Growth team in the Global Partner Organization, leads strategy, planning and business development for the partner business at Workday. We define and execute our strategy with leaders across the business; lead strategic partner relationships; and deliver sizable, net-new revenue growth with partners.
About the Role
The Workday Wellness platform enables benefit providers (Wellness Partners) to deliver seamless, API-based integration solutions within Workday’s HCM and Benefits ecosystem. As part of our strategic growth, this role bridges the gap between partner signing and live customer deployment. As the Partner Technical Enablement Lead for Workday Wellness, you will own the technical journey for our Wellness Partners, ensuring they understand Workday HCM/Benefits functionality, master our API capabilities, and are fully equipped to guide enterprise customers through successful product deployments. Success for the role will be measured in optimizing for time required for partners to adopt and reach readiness to deploy. You’ll streamline the end-to-end program and activities required between partner sign-on and operational deployment readiness.
Key Responsibilities
Lead our Wellness Partner Platform Adoption Program Facilitate structured technical onboarding sessions for Wellness Partners, including technical deep dives, authentication setup, system service coordination, and test tenant provisioning. Lead test-case development and scenario testing to validate integration capabilities prior to customer engagement. Solution Education, Training & Certification Build and maintain comprehensive learning resources, API documentation, and training modules. Design, implement, and own a solution quality certification program that establishes quality standards and differentiates partner offerings (e.g., base use cases vs. advanced "best-in-class" implementations). Define how internal teams and Workday HCM customers identify available Wellness Partners and their associated certification tiers. Provide proactive technical advisory services, ad-hoc troubleshooting, and hands-on guidance to ensure partners earn required product credentials . Partner Deployment Readiness & Customer Enablement Equip partners with both the technical expertise and program management frameworks required to lead customer deployments: Coach partners on best practices across all