Top Remote HR Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Provides day-to-day HR support, including employee inquiries, onboarding, offboarding, employee relations, HR transactions, reporting, and policy interpretation. Maintains accurate HR records, supports service-center workflows, unemployment claims, labor relations, and workforce data analysis. Partners with stakeholders and HR teams on initiatives, training, process improvement, and compliance while safeguarding confidential information and managing competing priorities.

Supports daily HR operations, including onboarding, orientations, exit interviews, leave administration, unemployment claims, OSHA reporting, compliance tracking, employee engagement, recruitment support, communications, and HR initiatives. Provides administrative assistance to HR business partners and hiring managers, maintains confidential records, tracks HR data, and supports meetings and presentations. Requires strong organization, communication, interpersonal, analytical, and Microsoft Office skills.

Participate in a paid, remote interview about your SMB’s payroll and HR software stack. Discuss administrative workflows, employee data and compensation management, software features, integrations, usability, competitor platforms, and challenges faced by SMB HR teams. Participants should be active HR, payroll, operations, or business professionals with direct experience evaluating, implementing, or administering HR and payroll systems.

Leads Workday implementation, configuration, solution design, governance, integrations, reporting, data validation, testing, and post-go-live support. Partners with HR, IT, Finance, and business leaders to translate requirements into scalable solutions, establish HRIS governance and support models, ensure data integrity and compliance, and manage complex global initiatives. Drives automation, process optimization, documentation, stakeholder alignment, and sustainable HR technology operations.

Owns day-to-day People Operations for a global workforce across the US, Canada, and India. Responsibilities include HRIS management, payroll and benefits administration, onboarding and offboarding, compliance, recruiting workflows, employee relations, leave administration, performance review cycles, and HR reporting. The role also supports managers with coaching and progressive discipline, maintains policies and personnel records, and requires up to 15% travel.

Supports HR administration throughout the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, personnel records, I-9 documentation, background checks, employee communications, payroll and timekeeping questions, benefits enrollment, compliance tracking, and employee relations documentation. Provides bilingual English and Spanish support, coordinates transitions from hiring through project deployment, maintains confidential HR databases, and collaborates with recruiting and operations teams supporting a large workforce.

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.

Leads HR strategy for U.S. multi-site manufacturing operations across seven locations and approximately 500 associates. Partners with Operations leaders on workforce planning, talent and succession strategies, organizational design, employee relations, leadership development, change management, and retention. Coaches site HR Managers, supports transformation in a matrixed environment, ensures employment-law compliance, and uses workforce analytics to guide organizational decisions. Requires travel up to 30%.

Leads people-readiness strategy and execution for major business expansion initiatives. Owns workforce planning, organizational design, recruiting, compensation, HR systems, employee relations, onboarding, training, communications, and change management. Develops integrated HR project plans, manages risks and dependencies, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, and measures readiness outcomes. Requires extensive HR and manufacturing experience, strong influence and project leadership skills, and the ability to operate across regions and cultures. Significant domestic travel up to 75% is required, with possible international travel.

Partners with senior leaders across headquarters and operating companies to deliver strategic HR support. Leads M&A due diligence and integration, workforce planning, organizational design, talent development, succession planning, employee relations, leadership coaching, engagement, compliance, and HR risk mitigation. Analyzes HR metrics, collaborates on compensation and benefits, and advances scalable HR practices, tools, and systems across a complex, multi-entity environment.

Own the HR systems ecosystem, including configuration, workflows, integrations, automation, data integrity, reporting, compliance controls, and Jira intake. Lead system implementations, upgrades, redesigns, documentation, and training while partnering across People Operations, IT, Compliance, Security, Finance, Legal, and vendors. Apply AI and automation to reduce manual work and improve employee support.

Serve as a strategic HR partner to senior leaders, translating business objectives into people strategies. Lead talent management, succession planning, leadership development, organizational design, change management, and data-informed workforce initiatives. Collaborate globally with HR teams to implement scalable programs, improve organizational effectiveness, and support cross-cultural teams. The role requires strong business acumen, executive influence, communication, analytics, and experience in crypto, fintech, or regulated financial services.

Provides fractional HR leadership and consulting to Christian ministries, churches, and mission organizations. Responsibilities include developing HR strategies, coaching executives and staff, guiding organizational change, managing compliance and people programs, mentoring HR teams, and supporting recruiting, compensation, benefits, training, performance management, engagement, policies, and employee relations. The role is mostly remote, part-time, and includes occasional travel to the Dallas area.

Leads the people strategy for R&D and Regulatory functions at a biotechnology company. Partners with HR specialists on talent acquisition, rewards, employee relations, communications, talent development, and succession planning. Advises senior leaders on organization design, workforce planning, change management, performance, and complex employee issues. Supports enterprise-wide programs, culture initiatives, and employee experience while managing and mentoring HR talent.

Serve as a strategic HR advisor across multiple software companies and countries. Lead employee relations investigations, performance management, workforce planning, organizational design, manager coaching, people analytics, compliance guidance, and HR program development. Support M&A integration by harmonizing people practices across acquired entities, reinforcing culture, and managing cross-entity HR initiatives. Partner with senior leaders, legal counsel, Total Rewards, and Payroll in a fast-paced, multi-entity environment.

Serve as a fractional Director of HR advising alternative asset firms and family offices on full-scope HR programs: policy design, compliance, compensation, talent management, employee relations, vendor oversight, people analytics, and special projects. Develop actionable plans, KPIs, and measurement frameworks; support managers, handle sensitive investigations and regulatory matters, and drive leadership development and succession planning.

Supports HR operations by advising managers and employees, conducting onboarding, handling policies and documentation, and coordinating dispute resolution. Oversees general affairs, facility operations, lease vehicles, vendors, invoices, space planning, employee events, SOPs, bilingual communications, and management reporting. Requires Korean-English fluency, supervisory experience, budgeting skills, and proficiency with Microsoft Office.

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.

Provide employee support through phone, email, and chat, resolving moderately complex inquiries about payroll, time away, leave, benefits, HR policies, and HR systems. Use Workday HCM and ServiceNow to manage cases accurately and confidentially while ensuring compliance with company policies. The role requires strong English and Mandarin communication skills and careful handling of sensitive employee issues.

Manage employee data and documentation accurately and confidentially within People Operations. Use ServiceNow to handle cases, coordinate compliant documentation workflows, collaborate across teams, and support HR-related tasks. The role requires strong English and Vietnamese communication, attention to detail, calm issue resolution, and at least two years of data administration and document management experience.

Provides employee support through phone, email, and chat, resolving inquiries about payroll, time away, leave, benefits, HR policies, and systems. Manages cases in Workday HCM and ServiceNow, handles sensitive information confidentially, applies critical thinking to moderately complex issues, and ensures compliance with company policies. Requires strong English and Thai communication skills and at least three years of employee support experience.

Manage confidential employee data, documentation, and HR-related workflows within People Operations. Use ServiceNow to handle cases, coordinate compliant document processes, collaborate across teams, and support HR shared-service activities. The role requires strong English and Korean communication, accurate data administration, document management, and the ability to remain calm while anticipating issues.

Provides employee support through phone, email, and chat, resolving inquiries about payroll, time away, leave, benefits, HR policies, and HR systems. Manages cases in Workday HCM and ServiceNow, handles sensitive issues confidentially, applies critical thinking to moderately complex cases, and ensures compliance with company policies and procedures. Requires strong English and Korean communication skills and at least three years of employee support experience.

Manage employee data and documentation accurately and confidentially within People Operations. Use ServiceNow to handle cases, coordinate compliant documentation workflows, collaborate across teams, and support HR-related tasks. The role requires English and Japanese communication skills, strong data administration and document management experience, attention to detail, and the ability to remain calm under pressure.

Manage confidential employee data, document workflows, and HR-related cases using systems such as ServiceNow. Coordinate documentation in compliance with company policies, collaborate across teams to improve workflows, and support the People Operations team. The role requires strong English communication, Mandarin or another additional language, data administration and document management experience, attention to detail, and the ability to remain calm under pressure.