Engineering Hiring

Hiring Practices

Please reference our internal hiring repository for internal best practices and guidelines.

R&D New Headcount GHPID Request, Backfill & Transfer Process

New Headcount and Backfill Processes

Budgeted new headcount review occurs on a regular basis across Engineering Leadership, Talent Acquisition, Finance Business Partners (FPB), and People Business Partners (PBP). The process to open a new headcount is Talent Acquisition and Finance-driven, with a focus on ensuring communication, consistency and collaboration between the Engineering and People teams.

The process for both new headcount and backfill processes can be found in the Talent Acquisition handbook section.

Headcount Transfer Process

1. Department Heads and PBPs: If two Department Heads agree to move a new headcount between their teams each leader should reach out to their respective PBPs to discuss org structure and/or org planning considerations. PBPs will share relevant information (org design/level/placement) with Finance and Talent Acquisition through the Triad process.
2. Talent Acquisition: TA will own the process of creating an Approved Needing Swap issue in the Headcount Project to confirm that both departments are in agreement with the move.
3. Finance Business Partner: The FBP will create a GHPID for the forecasted role in Adaptive, add the GHPID to the Issue and mark the step as complete, signaling the forecast has been updated. If more information is required, the FPB will reach out to the department leader or PBP before providing a GHPID.
4. People Business Partner: After a GHPID has been allocated, the PBP will ensure that both the “Cost Center” and “Supervisory Org” dimensions in Workday are updated and accurate.