Top HR Jobs in Portland, ME

Serve as the strategic HR partner for G&A leaders, leading organizational design, restructuring, performance calibration, leadership coaching, change communication, and people-program implementation. Use employee data, engagement insights, AI tools, and headcount models to guide decisions and identify organizational risks. Support globally distributed teams while handling sensitive personnel information with discretion and partnering with senior executives across Finance, Legal, Compliance, and People functions.

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.

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.

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.

Lead global HR strategy and operations for a multi-site manufacturing company. Drive talent acquisition, total rewards, employee relations, performance management, compliance, change management, and HR process standardization. Serve as senior advisor to leadership, support multi-region workforce planning, and enable scalable HR systems and development programs to support company growth.

Analyzes and supports HR programs, policies, governance, and initiatives through data extraction, reporting, research, quality control, and process assessment. Develops employee communications and documentation, monitors vendor service levels, resolves escalated issues, and provides insights to HR leaders. The role supports regulatory compliance, risk management, continuous improvement, and small-scale projects while collaborating with internal stakeholders and external vendors.

Lead HR for a multi-state insurance agency (18 locations, ~200 employees). Serve as strategic partner to executives; oversee talent acquisition, employee relations, compliance, compensation, benefits, performance management, training, and HR operations. Manage multi-state employment law compliance, HR team, vendor relationships, and HR metrics to support business decisions. Support organizational development, succession planning, and culture initiatives.

Provides day-to-day employee relations advice to managers, employees, and HR partners across multiple business lines. Handles performance management, workplace behavior, accommodations, terminations, workforce transitions, investigations, and policy guidance. Coaches leaders, assesses risks, manages cases, ensures employment-law compliance, identifies trends, prepares management reporting, and escalates high-risk issues. The role also supports HR process improvements, stakeholder partnerships, and consistent policy implementation.

Provides day-to-day employee relations advice to managers, employees, and HR partners across multiple business lines. Handles complex performance, conduct, accommodation, leave, compensation, safety, disciplinary, termination, and workforce transition matters. Investigates issues, assesses risk, manages case documentation, interprets HR policies, coaches leaders, identifies trends, escalates high-risk concerns, and recommends solutions. The role also supports policy implementation, process improvements, reporting, stakeholder partnerships, and manager capability development.

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.

Own day-to-day HR operations, including multi-state payroll, benefits, leave, compliance, HRIS administration, onboarding, offboarding, workers’ compensation, retirement plans, employee records, audits, and process improvement. Serve as a trusted resource for employees and managers, resolve issues independently, maintain accurate documentation, and partner with People leadership to build scalable HR processes.

Lead HR strategy and execution for frontline operational workforce across warehouse, transportation, and data center sites. Manage and develop a team of HR Directors, partner with Operations and centralized HR COEs to translate programs into consistent on-the-ground execution, oversee workforce planning, labor relations escalation, compliance, safety, metrics, and continuous improvement. Travel ~25% to support distributed sites.

Coordinates recruiting, onboarding, offboarding, employee records, HR administration, compliance tracking, leave administration, reporting, training, performance management, and engagement initiatives. Serves as a first point of contact for HR questions while supporting the HR Business Partner and maintaining confidential information. The role is fully remote and requires strong organization, communication, analytical, and time-management skills.

Serve as HR business partner aligning people strategies with business goals across assigned units. Provide employee relations guidance, performance management, talent acquisition support, compliance oversight, training evaluation, policy administration, FMLA/leave coordination, and partner with HR COEs to drive HR initiatives and change management.

Remote HR internship supporting recruitment, onboarding, employee records, engagement, HR operations, compliance documentation, performance management assistance, and general HR administrative tasks.

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.

Build and operate core HR processes, including onboarding, offboarding, performance reviews, merit and promotion cycles, career pathing, employee recognition, learning and development, benefits support, and immigration assistance. Own the implementation and configuration of Rippling, using AI tools to improve efficiency while maintaining compliant documentation, data handling, and decision-making practices. Partner closely with employees and managers in a growth-stage company.

Analyze workforce data and develop HR dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, visualizations, and automated reporting solutions. Identify trends across the employee lifecycle, evaluate engagement and employee programs, ensure data quality and compliance, and provide actionable recommendations to HR and business leaders. The role also supports employee listening strategies, reporting process improvement, data governance, and executive-level presentations.

Lead companywide recruiting and help build the organization’s people infrastructure. Responsibilities include sourcing candidates, developing compensation and retention programs, managing payroll and benefits, overseeing performance evaluations, creating onboarding and training processes, and advising leadership on employment-law compliance. The role supports a distributed team and works closely with executive and legal teams.

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.

Manage HR operations including onboarding, employee relations, and performance management. Support recruitment, implement HR policies for compliance, facilitate training and engagement programs, and analyze HR data to inform decisions and improve employee experience.

Lead HR operations and strategy for a US remote site, partnering with business leaders to drive employee relations, performance management, compensation, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness. Implement HR programs, advise on policy and compliance, conduct investigations, track HR metrics, and manage special projects to support a People First culture.

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.

Partner with business leaders to deliver HR strategy and programs including talent management, performance coaching, employee relations, workforce planning, and change management. Advise on policies, support recruitment and retention initiatives, and drive people-related projects to achieve business goals.