Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confidential Careers is seeking a hands-on Human Resources Manager to lead HR operations across its U.S. businesses. The role owns the employee lifecycle, supports employees and managers, and oversees compliance, employee relations, payroll, benefits, leave, performance management, and HR systems.
Responsibilities
- Compliance: Ensure federal, state, and local employment law compliance; maintain handbooks, policies, and notices; manage requirements as we enter new states; partner with outside counsel on higher-risk matters
- Employee relations: Manage complaints, investigations, discipline, and terminations; advise managers on performance issues with consistent documentation
- Onboarding and offboarding: Run the employee lifecycle from hire through exit, including documentation, transfers, compensation changes, and exit interviews
- Payroll and taxes: Oversee multi-state payroll across both entities, including bonuses, commissions, and deductions, state registrations, and payroll tax compliance with Finance and external providers
- Benefits and 401(k): Administer medical, dental, vision, and other benefits, open enrollment, and the 401(k) plan; manage brokers, carriers, and plan providers
- Leave management: Manage FMLA, state-specific, parental, medical, and disability leave, accommodations, and return-to-work, with confidential records
- Performance management: Run review cycles, coach managers, and support PIPs, promotions, and compensation changes
- Inventory and assets: Track equipment, uniforms, and employee-issued property; report on and reconcile discrepancies with Operations, Finance, and IT
- HR operations and systems: Maintain employee records and HR systems, build scalable policies and processes, and provide HR reporting to leadership
Skills
- 5+ years of progressive U.S. HR experience with significant hands-on operations and employee relations responsibility
- Strong working knowledge of U.S. federal and state employment law
- Hands-on experience with payroll administration, benefits and 401(k) administration, and leave and accommodations management
- Experience independently handling investigations, discipline, performance issues, and terminations
- Experience working with payroll providers, benefits brokers, and employment counsel
- Someone hands-on, practical, and highly organized, who is discreet with confidential information, communicates clearly at all levels, and is comfortable building processes in a growing company without an established corporate HR infrastructure
- You are business-minded and understand that HR should protect the company, support employees, and enable the business to operate effectively
- Multi-state experience strongly preferred
- Highly desirable: growing, multi-entity, or multi-location organizations
- A plus: technology, fitness, hospitality, retail, or other operationally complex environments
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