Top HR Jobs in Rochester, NY

Supports recruiting, screening, interviewing, onboarding, payroll, time tracking, learning and development, employee relations, and general HR administration. The role focuses on serving a distributed, high-volume hourly workforce, especially part-time Client Onsite Associates. Responsibilities include reconciling timesheets, processing payroll, coordinating training, answering employee questions, maintaining records, and partnering with hiring managers and HR leadership.

Supports daily HR administration, including onboarding and offboarding, employee records, documentation, scheduling, HR inquiries, recruitment coordination, reporting, and follow-up on outstanding tasks. Maintains confidentiality and accurate HR data while providing organized, proactive support to employees, candidates, managers, HR, and management in a fully remote environment.

The HR Generalist partners with business leaders, managers, employees, Talent teams, and HR centers of expertise to deliver employee experience programs and resolve people matters. Responsibilities include employee relations, manager coaching, talent and compensation cycles, investigations, workforce insights, KPI tracking, HR data maintenance in Workday, employment compliance, and organizational planning. The role supports global teams, promotes diversity and belonging, and provides strategic and operational HR guidance across the employee journey.

Administers and improves employee benefits and leave programs, including health, retirement, disability, FMLA, accommodations, and annual enrollment. Ensures regulatory compliance, data accuracy, payroll reconciliation, vendor performance, employee communications, and timely case resolution. Partners with HR, Payroll, Legal, managers, employees, third-party administrators, and HRIS teams on complex cases, system testing, reporting, wellness programming, and process improvements.

Support employee experience, engagement, recruitment coordination, onboarding, offboarding, HR operations, employee lifecycle activities, reporting, and HR projects. Serve as a day-to-day employee contact, partner with hiring managers, manage documentation and communications, identify process gaps, and contribute to culture-building for a remote-first organization.

Partner with managers and employees on performance, development, engagement, employee relations, and day-to-day people matters. Coach managers, support talent and performance processes, improve HR operations using AI and automation, analyze people data, and coordinate payroll, benefits, compensation, and other processes with the PEO and Finance. Help scale the organization and strengthen its culture during growth and change.

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.

Responsible for supporting employee productivity, helping achieve organizational goals, and resolving workplace discrepancies among employees.

Provides tier-one HR help desk support to employees by investigating and resolving inquiries about policies, procedures, employee relations, system access, and other HR issues. Documents interactions, tracks requests, enters data, maintains records, and uses multiple systems to research and communicate accurate responses. The role also identifies recurring customer concerns and supports process improvements, requiring strong communication, organization, customer service, problem-solving, and computer skills.

Partners with business leaders on employee engagement, performance management, employee relations, workforce planning, talent assessment, organizational design, and manager capability. Coaches leaders through complex people issues, uses workforce and engagement data to guide decisions, supports organizational changes, and collaborates cross-functionally on talent, training, and HR initiatives. The role is remote on the East Coast with hybrid work during transition and requires up to 25% travel.

Lead global HR operations for a fully remote workforce across approximately 50 countries. Manage a global HR team, advise executives and managers, oversee employee relations, compliance, compensation, benefits, performance management, learning programs, HR systems, reporting, and the full staff lifecycle. Support immigration and relocation matters, improve HR processes through automation and analytics, manage external providers, and strengthen organizational culture, effectiveness, and employee experience.

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 and optimizes HR technology by analyzing requirements, configuring HCM modules, developing tests, resolving production issues, maintaining data integrity, supporting integrations and reporting, and leading system enhancement workstreams. Partners with HR, Payroll, IT, vendors, and business stakeholders while ensuring privacy, security, governance, documentation, training, and continuous improvement. Provides subject-matter expertise, coaches users and analysts, and applies responsible AI practices.

Supports and optimizes HR technology by analyzing requirements, configuring HCM systems, testing enhancements, resolving production issues, maintaining data integrity, supporting integrations and reporting, and leading project workstreams. Partners with HR, Payroll, IT, vendors, and business stakeholders while ensuring privacy, security, governance, and compliance. Coaches users and analysts and drives continuous process improvement.

Leads strategic and operational HR support across a multi-site portfolio of arenas, stadiums, and theaters. Partners with venue and regional leaders on workforce planning, organizational design, employee relations, labor strategy, compliance, talent management, succession planning, leadership development, engagement, retention, and change initiatives. Supports salaried and hourly workforces, seasonal staffing, union environments, and consistent HR program execution across geographically dispersed venues.

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.

Partners with corporate leaders on performance, employee relations, compensation, career development, workforce planning, and manager coaching. Leads calibration, promotion, and merit cycles; advises on complex employee matters; designs scalable HR processes; owns strategic people initiatives; applies AI to improve HR workflows; and mentors fellow HR partners.

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.

Provides HR operational and administrative support across employee inquiries, Workday transactions, onboarding and offboarding, leave administration, performance management, employment verification, unemployment claims, records, and compliance. Coordinates I-9 and E-Verify processes, maintains HR data and trackers, prepares reports, supports training, conducts exit interviews, and partners with HRBPs, Legal, vendors, managers, and employees while maintaining confidentiality and improving HR processes.

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.

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.

Supports daily HR operations across payroll, benefits, employee relations, recruitment, onboarding, performance management, compliance, and employee engagement. Owns end-to-end payroll processing, maintains HRIS and personnel records, resolves payroll inquiries, administers benefits, supports audits and reporting, and advises employees and managers on policies and workplace concerns. The role also contributes to process improvements, culture initiatives, and broader HR projects.

Own People Operations for a small global company across two legal entities. Responsibilities include payroll and contractor payments, multi-state tax compliance, HRIS and ATS administration, employee lifecycle management, onboarding and offboarding, leave administration, hiring, candidate screening, compensation, offers, employee support, workforce planning, and culture initiatives.

Supports core HR functions including HR operations, onboarding, employee experience, HRIS administration, people analytics, compliance, recruiting, employee relations, and special projects. Maintains personnel records, assists with benefits and leave administration, coordinates interviews, prepares reports and dashboards, supports engagement initiatives, and contributes to process improvement, AI, and automation projects.

Maintains and optimizes Workday HR and payroll systems, including business processes, integrations, data validation, conditional rules, reporting, dashboards, and release updates. Troubleshoots user issues, ensures report security and data integrity, maps processes, recommends enhancements, and trains HR and Payroll users. Documents procedures, supports system users, and shares HR technology best practices with leadership.