Leave and Absence Management Consultant

rations and become a trusted advisor to customers-helping organizations transform the way they manage leave.

About the Role
As a Presales Solution Consultant, you'll play a key role in positioning UKG's market-leading Leave and Absence Management solutions. Partnering with our Sales team, you'll bring subject-matter expertise, demonstrate our solutions, and shape conversations with HR and compliance leaders across industries.
This is a great opportunity for experienced HR/leave professionals to leverage their domain knowledge in a strategic, customer-facing role-while contributing to a best-in-class HCM platform.

What You'll Do
Customer Engagement & Sales Strategy
• Collaborate with Account Executives to drive opportunities and deliver tailored product demonstrations for HR, benefits, and compliance stakeholders.
• Serve as a trusted leave expert, aligning UKG's solutions with each customer's unique regulatory, operational, and policy-driven needs.
• Lead discovery sessions to uncover business requirements and craft consultative responses to challenges around FMLA, State, Local, and company specific leave policies.
• Contribute to RFP/RFI responses and support sales cycles through product expertise and storytelling.
Solution Expertise & Pre-Sales Enablement
• Showcase how UKG Leave solutions simplify the administration of multi-jurisdictional leave programs and improve compliance through automation and integration.
• Highlight UKG's ability to handle complex use cases including intermittent leave, return-to-work workflows, and policy exceptions.
• Stay informed about evolving state and federal leave legislation to reinforce UKG's value as a compliance partner.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Work closely with Product Management and Marketing to provide feedback and ensure leave messaging reflects the latest capabilities and market needs.
• Educate and support internal sales teams with enablement content, demos, and product updates.
• Act as a customer advocate internally, helping shape the future of UKG's leave solutions.

What You Bring
Basic Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience in U.S.-based leave administration, with deep understanding of FMLA, state-specific leave laws, and internal policy application.
• Passion for helping organizations improve processes through HR technology.
• Strong presentation and communication skills-comfortable engaging executives and HR practitioners alike.
• Experience working with HCM, payroll, or leave management systems.
• Ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in a presales, solution consultant, or implementation role (a plus-but not required).
• HR certification (e.g., SHRM-CP, PHR) or leave compliance training.
• Prior UKG product experience or familiarity with UKG Pro, UKG Ready, or Dimensions is a plus.

Company Overview:

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry - because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process

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The pay range for this position is $102,300.00 to $147,050.00, however, base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location. This position is also eligible for commissions and restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation. Information about UKG's comprehensive benefits can be reviewed on our careers site at https://https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits