Top Remote HR Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

The HR Coordinator supports day-to-day HR operations, assisting with onboarding, employee support, recruiting coordination, compliance, and reporting, while ensuring smooth HR processes.

Lead HR strategy and operations: employee relations, conflict resolution, performance management, onboarding, pay equity audits, training, policy compliance, and HR reporting. Partner with executive leadership and board to align HR with organizational goals and maintain confidential personnel records.

Lead end-to-end HR operations projects, translate priorities into actionable plans, align stakeholders, and ensure delivery. Design and implement scalable HR processes, document workflows, and improve efficiency. Partner with HR, IT, Finance, Legal, Payroll, and business stakeholders to gather requirements, manage risks and dependencies, and support change management. Own priority initiatives from implementation through stabilization and build sustainable controls and handoff documentation.

Act as an embedded HR advisor to business leaders across regions, guiding performance management, employee relations, workforce planning, talent initiatives, and people-data analysis to translate business goals into practical people actions.

Manage full-cycle recruitment, onboarding/offboarding, benefits and payroll support, HRIS (Paylocity) administration, reporting, employee relations, training coordination, and HR operational improvements for a remote workforce.

Provide day-to-day HR operational and administrative support across HR Operations and Employee Relations. Maintain employee records, support HR policies, onboarding, engagement initiatives, HR reporting, investigations, and coordination with Talent Acquisition to ensure compliant, consistent HR processes and a positive employee experience.

Manage all pre-employment screening (background checks, drug screens, verifications, health screenings), act as liaison among candidates, hiring managers, vendors, and occupational health providers, monitor progress, resolve issues, and ensure compliance. Support onboarding and HR operations in Workday, maintain confidential employee records, produce reports and SOPs, and recommend process improvements.

The Talent Acquisition & HR Specialist will manage full-cycle recruiting, support talent management initiatives, and assist with administrative support for the HR team.

The HR Generalist manages recruitment, onboarding, staff relations, benefits, performance management, compliance, and HRIS, ensuring organizational effectiveness in staffing.

This role supports HR activities including employee relations, compliance with laws, training, and policy implementation, while enhancing employee engagement and retention.

Lead HR operations and administration across the employee lifecycle, managing onboarding, HRIS/Workday data, compliance, employment verifications, records retention, reporting, process improvement, audits, and HR service delivery while partnering with Talent Acquisition, Payroll, Benefits, and business leaders.

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.

Serve as the Founders right hand managing end-to-end hiring, onboarding/offboarding, people operations, and executive support. Tasks include recruiting, scheduling interviews, maintaining hiring KPIs, inbox and calendar management, document handling, Google Sheets tracking, and ad-hoc travel booking. Role demands proactive problem-solving, ownership, and process improvement in a fast-paced, fully remote startup environment.

Serve as strategic HR partner to the Regional Vice President and field leaders to align people strategies with business goals. Coach leaders, diagnose organizational challenges, lead workforce planning, interpret workforce data, support change and onboarding, and deploy HR solutions to drive performance, engagement, and scalable team design across a multi-site region.

Lead HR data governance and a team responsible for Workday employee data integrity. Set standards, run audits, resolve complex multi-entity data issues, support cyclical programs (comp/performances), and drive automation/AI initiatives while partnering cross-functionally with HRIS, Payroll, Finance, Legal, and internal audit.

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.

Lead and build HR operations and systems at an early-stage company: manage HR systems, reporting and dashboards, process improvement, performance management, compliance, automation/AI initiatives, partner with Product and customers, and document/communicate change across the organization.

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.

Lead Workday HCM administration and HR technology optimization. Design and configure solutions, build reports and dashboards, analyze data flows, troubleshoot and support HR users, manage testing and deployments, and assist with Recruiting, Core HCM, Compensation, and Benefits processes including Open Enrollment.

Support and configure Oracle Fusion HCM modules (Learning, Performance, Recruiting, Onboarding). Partner with HR, IT, and business stakeholders to design, test, implement, and optimize HR processes and system enhancements. Lead deployments, drive adoption, provide training and documentation, analyze HR data, and recommend scalable, user-focused solutions.

Provide tactical HR support to a ~500-agent remote contact center, handling employee relations, investigations, coaching, performance management, training, HR documentation, recruitment partnership, and HR projects while ensuring compliance with policies and employment laws.

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.

The HR Generalist will manage HR programs and projects, handle payroll, ensure compliance, support clients, and optimize HR processes while fostering client relations.

The Senior Manager, HR Systems leads the strategy and execution of people analytics using Workday, focusing on data-driven workforce decisions and analytics capabilities.

The HR Business Partner collaborates with leaders to develop HR strategies, supports performance management, fosters inclusivity, and ensures legal compliance.