Top HR Jobs in Buffalo, NY

Serve as strategic HR partner to G&A senior leaders, leading org design and restructures, driving performance calibration, using data and AI tools to surface org health risks, and translating people strategy into measurable outcomes across global, high-growth teams.

Provide generalist HR advice across employee relations, onboarding, performance management, global mobility, and cyclical HR processes. Partner with HR Business Partners on salary review, talent mapping, calibration, and engagement analysis. Identify automation and self-service opportunities, support flexible work requests, and contribute to continuous improvement within a distributed, Pacific Time Zone-based team.

The Principal People Success Partner drives talent strategies for Sales and Marketing, partners with senior leaders, influences organizational health, and leads transformations using AI.

Serve as strategic HR partner to a 2,000+ R&D organization, leading org design, performance calibration, people programs, engagement analysis, and coaching senior leaders to scale the org and improve talent outcomes.

Partner with functional leaders to translate business strategy into people strategy. Own org design, performance management, compensation, talent development, engagement, and retention. Provide coaching on career pathing, change management, and sensitive employee issues. Use people data to generate insights and recommendations, build compliant HR policies, manage global employee relations, and collaborate with People Team COEs to deliver cohesive people programs at scale.

The Senior Manager, HR Compliance is responsible for developing and executing a compliance framework across the Americas, managing immigration and global mobility programs, and ensuring adherence to applicable laws and regulations while fostering a culture of compliance within the organization.

Administer and optimize the HRMS as a Super Admin, configuring modules (payroll, time, benefits, comp), managing integrations, reporting, audits (SOX/ITGC), testing, troubleshooting, automations, and special projects to ensure data security and system performance.

Lead property HR functions including recruitment, onboarding, training, performance management, benefits and wage administration, compliance with employment laws, coaching and counseling staff and managers, and partnering with hotel leadership to maintain a hospitable, productive workforce. Provide HR support, training, and confidentiality while occasionally traveling and working variable schedules as needed.

Lead client engagements on benefits strategy, plan design, open enrollment, and administration. Stabilize operations, manage carriers/brokers, execute transitions and platform migrations, ensure compliance, advise on cost optimization and multi-state/global expansion, and expand client relationships.

Volunteer HR Generalist to support recruiting (sourcing, screening, interviewing, onboarding), maintain personnel records and new-hire documentation, coordinate office operations and policies, publish job ads, schedule interviews, prepare reports and presentations, and assist with initial fundraising campaign. Attend weekly meetings and commit to minimum 4+ hours weekly.

Manage the performance management system, support managers with individual development plans, track and evaluate development activities, support succession planning, design and run engagement surveys and programs, assess training needs, coordinate training, and evaluate training effectiveness.

Support HR Administration by performing data analysis, reporting, dashboarding, testing, documentation, and process improvement. Ensure regulatory compliance, develop/validate queries, research system functionality, support implementations, and train end users.

Supervise and train HR administration staff to ensure accurate personnel records, HRIS data entry, recruitment support, compliance with employment laws and company policies, audit HR processes, analyze HR data, and lead cross-functional projects and community partnerships.

Provide hands-on HR support for client engagements including end-to-end onboarding/offboarding, payroll coordination, multi-state compliance research, HR policy and handbook updates, recruiting support, employee records management, and employee relations resolution. Work remotely part-time (10–30 hrs/week) on temporary contract with potential to expand.

Manage the full employee lifecycle for a global remote workforce: recruitment operations, onboarding/offboarding, performance management, employee relations, HR policy development, workforce planning, HR records, compliance, and organizational development. Support managers and teams to improve HR processes and build a high-performance company culture.

Support HR initiatives across talent development, HR operations, compensation, benefits, recruiting coordination, HR analytics, and employee engagement. Conduct research, generate HR reports, develop resource materials, assist program implementation, and contribute to special projects under the supervision of HR leadership.

Manage all onboard HR functions for the cruise ship, including recruitment, training, payroll, benefits, performance management, employee relations, crew welfare, compliance with maritime labor laws, reporting, budgeting, safety/security coordination, and continuous HR process improvements to support crew engagement and operational goals.

Provide senior HR leadership and strategy across payroll, benefits, HRIS, talent acquisition, onboarding, employee relations, performance management, and compliance. Build retention frameworks, define HR KPIs, manage HR team and vendors, maintain legal compliance, draft HR budgets, and partner with leadership to drive culture, engagement, and organizational development.

Lead people strategy and partner with business leaders to solve organizational challenges. Drive retention, talent assessment, succession planning, org design, compensation, leadership development, and coach managers to enable performance and change.

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Serve as US HR SME managing compliance, HRIS (HiBob), PEO liaison (ADP TotalSource), onboarding/offboarding, payroll and benefits (including 401(k)), employee relations and ER cases (PIPs), policy updates, audits, and US-specific HR projects while partnering with global HR and payroll teams.

Lead full-cycle recruiting and HR operations for a fast-growing cloud-native infrastructure startup. Own sourcing, interviewing, onboarding, benefits administration, HR systems selection, employee relations, compliance, and strategic HR partnership with executives to scale talent and programs.

Fractional HR generalist to manage ongoing people operations and full-cycle recruiting for a small, remote agency. Responsibilities include benefits administration, multi-state compliance, onboarding/offboarding, employee relations, performance management, and running searches from job descriptions to offers using Breezy ATS. This is a 10–20 hour/week fractional/contract role reporting to co-founders.

Responds to high-volume employee and manager inquiries via phone/chat, performs transactional HR processing in Workday and related systems, documents cases, escalates complex issues, and supports HR service level and process improvement goals.

Lead global HR business partner strategy and a team of HRBPs to align HR with company goals. Oversee employee relations, global compliance, talent management, change management, diversity and inclusion, and data-driven HR initiatives. Act as trusted advisor to senior leadership and drive organizational development and high-performance culture.