Senior Manager, Workday Absence & Time Tracking

Revolution Medicines is a global, commercial-state oncology company dedicated to discovering, developing and delivering innovative medicines for patients with RAS-addicted cancers. Leveraging its differentiated RAS(ON) tri-complex inhibitor platform, the company is advancing a broad, integrated portfolio of oral RAS(ON) inhibitors designed to directly target the active, cancer-driving state of RAS. Founded on rigorous scientific inquiry and a willingness to challenge long-held assumptions, Revolution Medicines is committed to changing the trajectory of disease for patients with RAS-addicted cancers worldwide.

Our people are united by a shared way of working: follow the science, challenge assumptions, act with urgency and hold ourselves to a high standard of rigor—all in service of patients.

The Opportunity:

As a key member of RevMed’s expanding Workday team, the Senior Manager, Workday Absence and Time Tracking will help build the systems foundation for our next stage of growth. This role will partner across the organization to translate evolving business needs into scalable solutions and a forward-looking roadmap that enables RevMed to grow effectively to 3,000–5,000+ employees. In this role, you will serve as the functional lead for RevMed's Workday Absence and Time Tracking modules, translating business needs and workforce policies into scalable, well-governed system solutions. You will combine deep configuration expertise with a consultative approach to support accurate time capture, reliable absence administration, payroll readiness, compliance, and an effective employee and manager experience.

This role requires both strong Workday Absence and Time Tracking expertise as well as strong broad Workday HCM systems knowledge. You will partner cross-functionally to drive optimization, governance, and continuous improvement across time and absence processes as well as partner on broader systems processes and projects. As a collaborative member of the Workday and broader HR teams, you will contribute beyond your primary modules, partnering across the team on shared priorities, broader systems processes, and enterprise projects. You will help drive optimization, governance, and continuous improvement across time and absence processes while ensuring alignment with RevMed's mission and core values. You will report directly to the Director, People Operations & Systems.

Responsibilities:

Serve as the Workday Time Tracking and Absence subject matter expert, owning configuration, maintenance, and optimization of:

Time entry templates, time types, and eligibility rules.

Absence plans, accruals, carryover rules, balance caps, and validations.

Work schedules, calendars, period schedules, and approval workflows.

Support global and regional rollouts, new country deployments, and regulatory or policy changes affecting time and absence.

Partner with People Operations, Payroll, Benefits and HR leaders to design, configure, and optimize Workday Absence and Time Tracking solutions, serving as the functional lead.

Drive the Workday roadmap and continuous improvement strategy for Absence, Time Tracking, and related Workday capabilities, while contributing to shared Workday priorities and broader People Operations and HR initiatives. Prioritize scalable, compliant solutions aligned with business objectives, operational efficiency, data integrity, payroll accuracy, and user experience.

Lead cross-functional initiatives and projects across the Workday & HR Portfolio, primarily focused on time and absence systems and processes, including policy changes, process redesigns, integrations, Workday releases, enhancements and other shared team priorities.

Partner closely with the Workday Architect Lead to align solutions with enterprise architecture standards, maintain scalable and compliant data flows across integrated systems, evaluate Workday releases, and guide feature adoption.

Lead requirements gathering and translate business, payr...