WP Engine’s success comes all the way down to folks. It’s the people driving innovation and offering distinctive experiences who make WP Engine such a Nice Place to Work.
With Thanksgiving on the horizon within the U.S., this version of Meet the Consultants highlights one of many folks chargeable for making certain everybody at WP Engine feels appreciated.
Kelsey Janes, a Senior Folks Programs Analyst primarily based in Tennessee, makes use of her skills to handle our inner methods. Her work helps WP Engine operationalize an worker expertise through which people really feel supported of their present roles and of their ongoing profession progress.
Say whats up to Kelsey!
Kelsey Janes is a Senior Folks Programs Analyst on our Worker Expertise Operations crew, specializing in WP Engine’s Human Sources Info System (HRIS), Workday. Her each day work entails each configuration and reporting to enhance the worker expertise.
Kelsey thinks of each colleague as a buyer, aiming to make their interplay with Workday so simple as potential.
“The folks right here at WP Engine work so onerous for our exterior prospects,” she says. “I need to deliver that very same vitality to how we assist them.”
Exterior of creating methods work properly for the folks they serve, Kelsey’s passions are books and journey.
She’s been a faithful reader since childhood (evidenced by her constant presence within the firm’s #books channel in Slack) and loves visiting new locations, whether or not by the pages of a guide or in actual life.
She has a private purpose to go to all seven continents, and already has 4 checked off her record. Her latest adventures included touring to Orkney throughout a visit to Scotland. She additionally not too long ago relocated from Omaha, Nebraska, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, wanting ahead to “milder winters and attending to discover among the many mountain climbing trails across the space.”
Kelsey’s profession journey
Kelsey’s journey with WP Engine started when the corporate acquired Flywheel. “One among my work enjoyable information is that the announcement of the acquisition was on my very first Monday as a Flywheeler,” she shares. “Six years later, I’d say it’s understanding!”
Her function is crucial in bridging the hole between massive concepts and real-world execution. Deep Workday experience helps her “take tasks and reporting requests from the theoretical to the sensible,” working behind the scenes to facilitate the whole lot from improvement assessment cycles to new program rollouts to worker anniversary recognition throughout all-company City Corridor conferences.
Kelsey believes a profitable firm is constructed on profitable staff. “I’m ready to make use of my data to assist others get throughout the end line on tasks that assist our staff achieve success of their roles,” she explains. This method is rooted in some of the invaluable classes she’s discovered all through her profession: the ability of listening.
She advises towards leaping in too rapidly: “It’s simple to need to bounce into motion since you really feel such as you’ve executed one thing comparable 1,000,000 occasions earlier than,” she says.
“It’s all the time price taking the time to cease and hear to what’s being requested of you. Making a plan is all the time higher than making assumptions.”
Phrases of knowledge: Deal with the expertise
Kelsey’s skilled philosophy is deeply aligned with WP Engine’s core worth of Buyer Impressed. For her, this worth extends to each individual inside the group.
“I need the workers of WP Engine to have a very good expertise working right here,” she says. “So any time I’m engaged on a undertaking, the query on the forefront of my thoughts is ‘How can we make this work properly for our staff?’”
This dedication to inner customer support comes from a deep take care of her colleagues.
“It could be a cliché response, however having co-workers that you just belief and respect is among the finest issues you may have at any office,” she says. “The folks I work with permit me to be my finest self at work, and I’m actually grateful to them for that.”
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Kelsey is simply one of many many specialists at WP Engine who’re dedicated to creating a distinction, each for our exterior prospects and for the interior groups who assist them.
Excited about becoming a member of Kelsey and the remainder of the worldwide crew that’s powering confidence on-line? Discover WP Engine’s present openings and discover out how one can develop your profession with us.
