WEBSITE: https://canoeintelligence.com/
TITLE: Sr. People Resources Generalist
LOCATION: New York City (hybrid)
SALARY: $105,000 - $115,000 base + bonus & equity
The Role:
The Sr. People Resources Generalist plays a key role in supporting and enhancing the full employee lifecycle. This position provides hands-on HR support to employees and managers, oversees HR operations, leads employee relations initiatives, and contributes to strategic HR projects and policy development. The ideal candidate has deep HR generalist experience, strong analytical skills, and a demonstrated ability to build trust across the organization.
What You'll Do:
- Serve as a primary HR contact for employees and managers on HR policies, performance issues, conflict resolution, and general HR inquiries.
- Oversee new hire onboarding coordination, communication, and system setup; Coordinate and lead new hire orientation for all team members
- Assist employees with benefits enrollment, questions, and escalations; coordinate with benefits vendors to resolve issues; Support open enrollment planning, communications, and execution.
- Support the full performance management cycle, including goal setting, mid-year and year-end reviews.
- Advise managers on performance documentation and development planning.
- Help identify training needs and coordinate development programs or resources for employees.
- Maintain accurate employee data within the HRIS; produce reports and dashboards to support workforce decisions.
- Lead or assist in updating company policies, employee handbook sections, and HR procedures.
- Analyze employee engagement data and partner with leadership to implement action plans.
- Lead or participate in cross-functional HR projects such as DEI initiatives, process automation, HRIS enhancements, or culture-building programs.
- Provide insight and recommendations on improving employee experience, HR efficiency, and systems improvement
What We're Looking For:
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field preferred
- 5-8 years of progressive HR generalist experience supporting a diverse employee population.
- Experience in multi-state and global HR environments strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of employment laws (FLSA, FMLA, ADA, multi state regulations).
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence and coach at all levels.
- Strong understanding of benefits administration and oversight, including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, and 401(k)
- High degree of professionalism, discretion, and judgment.
- Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret HR data and develop insights.
- Proficiency with HRIS platforms (ADP,) Familiarity with Lattice and Gsuite preferred
- Proven ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
What You'll Get:
- Medical, dental, vision benefits
- Flexible PTO
- 401(k)
- Flexible work from home policy
- Home office stipend
- Employee Assistance Program
- Gym/Wifi reimbursement
- Education assistance
- Parental Leave
Our Values:
- Client First -> Listen, and deliver client-centric solutions
- Be An Owner -> Take initiative, improve situations, drive positive outcomes
- Excellence -> Always set the highest standard for yourself and others
- Win Together -> 1 + 1 = 3
Who We Are:
Canoe is reimagining alternative investment data processes for hundreds of leading institutional investors, capital allocators, asset servicing firms and wealth managers. By combining industry expertise with the most sophisticated data capture technologies, Canoe's technology automates the highly-frustrating, time-consuming, and costly manual workflows related to alternative investment document and data management, extraction and delivery. With Canoe, clients can refocus capital and human resources on business performance and growth, increase efficiency, and gain deeper access to their data. Canoe's AI-driven platform was developed in 2013 for Portage Partners LLC, a private investment firm.
Canoe is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
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What We Do
Canoe offers first-of-its kind AI technology powering the future of alternative investments. Canoe has reimagined the future of alternative investments with cloud-based, machine-learning technology for document collection, data extraction, and data science initiatives. We transform complex documents into actionable intelligence within seconds and empower allocators with tools to unlock new efficiencies for their business. Since the beginning, we’ve maintained a focused, client-first approach to building and enhancing our technology and will continue to do so. By introducing automation to alternatives document collection and data management workflows, institutional investors, wealth managers, and general partners are seeing dramatic improvements in data accuracy and access, team efficiency, and client satisfaction.
Why Work With Us
At Canoe, we look for people who are open-minded, willing to roll up their sleeves, and constantly ask questions. We believe that diverse backgrounds and perspectives foster conversation and innovation, and collaborate to make each other better. Canoe's success is intertwined with each individual's success, which is why we focus on the team.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Depending on role, employees may be hybrid in-office in NYC, London, or Jacksonville, or fully remote.
