Top Senior HR Jobs in Madison, WI

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.

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

The Vice President of Human Resources leads strategic HR initiatives, overseeing workforce planning, employee relations, organizational culture, and compliance to ensure operational effectiveness.

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.

Own and manage the HR technology ecosystem with Workday as the core HCM. Lead HR IT team, prioritize and deliver HR technology projects and integrations (including SAP and third-party vendors), maintain governance, data standards, security, and performance. Partner with HR, Finance, IT, and vendors on roadmap, system upgrades, documentation, training, and support to improve processes and employee experience. Manage vendors, consultants, and staff; oversee technical issue resolution and systems analyst training. Travel to campus 10-25% and local commuting proximity preferred.

Act as the primary HR Business Partner for Area Directors and General Managers, translating business priorities into people strategies. Lead talent lifecycle activities, coach leaders, manage complex employee relations and union matters, drive organizational effectiveness, enable change, and use workforce data to inform HR solutions and compliance.

Provide autonomous HR generalist support across international markets: develop and localize policies and contracts, ensure statutory compliance, build SOPs and HR capability, manage employee relations and lifecycle processes, standardize HR reporting, own onboarding, and maintain organized HR records across jurisdictions.

Lead and oversee HR service delivery across the employee lifecycle, executing complex Workday/HRIS transactions, coordinating projects and process improvements, producing reports and metrics, ensuring compliance and audit readiness, and partnering with cross-functional teams to maintain data integrity and operational excellence.

Manage day-to-day HR operations and own payroll for Philippines-based staff: collect and validate timesheets, calculate pay and statutory contributions, maintain records, ensure Philippine labor law compliance, support onboarding/offboarding and employee relations, and improve HR/payroll workflows.

Lead global HR business partnership, driving strategies for organizational effectiveness, employee relations, talent development, and coaching managers. Collaborate with leaders across functions and deliver integrated HR programs aligned with company objectives.

Serve as the strategic HR Business Partner for the Commercial organization, advising senior leaders, supporting sales-focused programs (incentive plans, onboarding), leading org design and workforce planning, driving talent strategy, performance management, and employee relations. Provide data-driven insights, deliver presentations, mentor junior HRBPs, and collaborate with L&D, Compensation, and Operations. Travel approximately 10–20%.

The Human Resources Manager oversees HR operations, manages hiring and onboarding, and collaborates with the team on employee relations and compliance.

Lead HR Generalist responsible for global HR initiatives, regional talent development, performance management, and employee relations within the Americas, ensuring compliance and supporting high-performance teams.

Senior HR Business Partner supporting Sales and field-based commercial teams across US and Canada. Provide strategic HR partnership to executive and senior leaders on talent strategy, organization design, succession planning, leadership development, change initiatives, performance management, employee relations, and workforce analytics. Collaborate with HR Centers of Excellence and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver integrated HR solutions, coach leaders, and improve organizational effectiveness and employee experience.

Part-time HR leader responsible for multi-state employment compliance, updating policies and handbook, employee relations and investigations, advising leadership on HR matters, coordinating with ADP PEO for payroll/benefits, and supporting onboarding/offboarding and ad hoc HR projects for a distributed remote team.

Own day-to-day HR operations for US employees across acquired businesses. Serve as primary HR contact, manage PEO relationship, ensure multi-state compliance, lead onboarding and M&A integrations, support benefits and payroll, build scalable HR processes, advise on employee relations and leave, and partner with People, Finance, and Operations to maintain accurate records and foster a high-performance, empathetic culture.

Lead and manage all site HR functions for Catalent's Madison biologics facility, including employee relations, performance management, training, compensation, benefits, compliance, staffing, onboarding, leadership development, and HR team supervision. Act as strategic HR partner to site leadership to align people programs with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

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.

Lead strategy and governance for HR digital experiences and knowledge management. Design and optimize employee portals, knowledge articles, search, taxonomies, and self-service tools using data and user research. Translate complex policies into user-friendly content, collaborate with HR, IS, vendors, and technical teams, and maintain/configure content in ServiceNow and related platforms.

Serve as a strategic HR partner to senior leaders in West R&D, driving organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, succession planning, compensation guidance, change leadership, and complex employee relations to improve engagement, retention, and leadership capability.

Strategic HR Business Partner advising Engineering, Research, Product Strategy, and Technical Operations on organizational design, workforce planning, leadership coaching, performance management, compensation, employee experience, and HR operations. Build people programs, drive talent and succession planning, partner with recruiting and legal, leverage people data and AI tools, and serve as a Rippling administrator to scale processes across globally distributed technical teams.

Serve as an embedded strategic HR partner for market unit leaders, driving workforce planning, org design, compensation analysis, performance coaching, complex employee relations, HR technology adoption, and harmonization of job architecture across a remote, multi-jurisdictional workforce.

As an HR and Payroll Specialist, you will manage payroll and HR operations, ensuring compliance and efficiency across multiple countries, primarily the US and Canada. Responsibilities include processing payroll, overseeing HR administrative tasks, and managing benefits administration while maintaining legal compliance.