We are looking for an HR Specialist in Shanghai to manage day-to-day HR operations. This role will act as the local HR representative, ensuring smooth employee support, HR compliance, and benefits administration locally while partnering with the APAC/International HR team and other stakeholders.
What Will You Do:Manage and execute day to day administrative and operational HR tasks.
Maintain accurate, complete and up-to-date employee records, documentation and personnel files in accordance with company policies, data privacy requirements and record retention standards
Ensure HR practices comply with China employment laws and company policies
Manage employee local onboarding processes, partnering with International/ US HR manager, HRBPs, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth and compliant employee experience.
Support implementation and communication of global and local HR policies and maintain the China Employee Handbook.
Work closely with HRBP and HQ to ensure policies are communicated clearly and implemented effectively
Support payroll, benefits, HR reporting, audits, and HR projects
Support site events and wellbeing initiatives to promote a positive and inclusive workplace culture.
Assist and processes transactional activities according to the HR processes defined by company.
Responsible for employee certificate preparation or any other documentation required in Chinese and issue the hardcopy for employees.
Work as the system admin for DingTalk leave system including employee account management, annual leave/carryover entitlement calculation and set up in system, annual leave reminder preparation and any other system support as per request.
Support in HR Operation projects locally as set by company globally.
Bachelor’s degree or above in Business Administration or a relevant field.
3+ years of experience in HR operations and/or administration
Experience working with a US company preferred
Strong understanding of China employment practices, HR operations, and local labor regulations.
Experience managing employee records, HR documentation, onboarding, leave administration, payroll inputs, and employee lifecycle processes.
Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and employee data management is preferred.
Strong stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills, with a proactive and customer-oriented mindset
Fluent in both written and spoken English
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Business Administration or a relevant field
- 3+ years of experience in HR operations and/or administration
- Strong understanding of China employment practices, HR operations, and local labor regulations
- Experience managing employee records, HR documentation, onboarding, leave administration, payroll inputs, and employee lifecycle processes
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Experience working with a US company
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and employee data management
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills with a proactive, customer-oriented mindset
What We Do
DDN is the world’s largest private data storage company and the leading provider of intelligent technology and infrastructure solutions for Enterprise At Scale, AI and analytics, HPC, government and academia customers. Through its DDN and Tintri divisions, the company delivers AI, Data Management software and hardware solutions, and unified analytics frameworks to solve complex business challenges for data-intensive, global organizations. DDN provides its enterprise customers with the most flexible, efficient and reliable data storage solutions for on-premises and multi-cloud environments at any scale. Over the last two decades, DDN has established itself as the data management provider of choice for over 11,000 enterprises, government, and public-sector customers, including many of the world’s leading financial services firms, life science organizations, manufacturing and energy companies, research facilities, and web and cloud service providers.
