HR Manager
- Location
- New York, NY (Hybrid)
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Department
- Operations
- Compensation
- $175K – $325K, Offers equity
Benefits. A competitive package designed around the needs of every single employee. Coverage is total.
Compensation is set at the top 1% of the market for the role and location. Final offer amounts are determined by a single factor.
About the role
Califa is hiring an HR Manager to own every part of the employee experience, from offer letter to exit interview. The role covers people operations, benefits, compliance, policy, and employee relations for the entire company.
The HR Manager is the company’s neutral party. The role handles every complaint, every investigation, and every policy question confidentially, including the ones about leadership, and reports its findings to the CEO.
The right candidate has run HR at companies of every size, and can give the employee here their full attention.
What you’ll do
- Own onboarding, offboarding, and everything in between.
- Administer payroll, benefits, leave, and the annual open-enrollment period.
- Write and maintain the employee handbook, and collect the signed acknowledgment.
- Investigate every workplace complaint promptly, impartially, and to completion.
- Run the performance review cycle and the calibration that follows it, in a single sitting.
- Keep the company compliant with New York State and New York City employment law.
- Plan the offsite and the holiday party, and book a table for each.
What we’re looking for
- 10+ years in human resources, with 5+ years as the sole HR person at a company.
- SHRM-SCP or SPHR certification, current, and a working knowledge of the other.
- Has handled more than 500 employee relations cases, each documented and closed.
- Expert in HRIS, payroll, and benefits platforms, and able to run all three by hand when they are down.
- Has conducted a fair and impartial investigation into a complaint about the person who signs your paycheck.
- Has rolled out a company-wide policy change with no one finding out about it from someone else.
- Remembers every employee’s birthday without a reminder.
- Available for confidential conversations at any hour, in person, behind a closed door.
Nice to have
- Background in employment law, mediation, or both.
- Experience building a compensation framework with published bands.
- Has run engagement surveys with a 100% response rate.
- Familiarity with the Technical Recruiter’s applicant tracking system.