Top HR Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Manage end-to-end payroll through a PEO, administer HRIS data, support employees with payroll and HR inquiries, ensure multi-state compliance, generate reports, and optimize HR workflows. Lead the organization’s 2027 transition from its PEO to an independent payroll and HR technology stack, including system selection, implementation, tax setup, SOP development, controls, and employee training.

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.

Provides strategic and hands-on HR partnership to Engineering, Product, and R&D leaders. Responsibilities include manager coaching, performance management, employee relations, talent and compensation programs, engagement surveys, exit meetings, organizational effectiveness, risk identification, and policy application. The role supports globally distributed teams during a six-month transition period and requires strong judgment, confidentiality, communication, and operational execution.

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.

Partner with leaders across clinical, technology, and corporate functions to deliver strategic HR solutions. Responsibilities include employee relations, organizational design, change management, leadership development, performance management, workforce planning, engagement initiatives, compliance, and people analytics. The role supports a remote, multi-state organization with a focus on healthcare and clinical teams.

Provide advanced HR support including employee relations and investigations, performance management, leaves and accommodations, policy interpretation, onboarding/offboarding, HR project leadership, compliance with California employment law, HR reporting, and serve as a senior resource and trainer to the HR team.

Support global payroll technology across Workday and outsourced payroll platforms such as CloudPay. Responsibilities include payroll configuration, integrations, production issue resolution, reconciliations, compliance controls, testing, release management, documentation, and stakeholder coordination across regions. The role translates payroll business needs into system requirements and ensures accurate, timely, and secure payroll processing.

Serves as a strategic and hands-on HR partner to Operations, Development, and Global Program leaders. Leads workforce planning, organizational design, talent reviews, succession planning, employee relations, leadership development, engagement, compensation, performance management, and organizational effectiveness. Advises leaders on talent and workforce risks, supports compliance with employment laws, SOX, and FDA requirements, and helps align HR programs with business growth and biotech industry practices.

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

Leads global HR operations, shared services, HRIS optimization, data governance, employee lifecycle processes, compliance, payroll coordination, and process transformation across multiple countries. Manages HR support channels, audits, reporting, system integrations, and M&A readiness while developing shared services staff and partnering with HR, Finance, IT, Legal, and business leaders.

Supports the HR team across onboarding, offboarding, employee records, HR databases, engagement activities, training initiatives, documentation, reporting, and general administration. The six-month internship provides practical exposure to end-to-end HR operations while requiring confidentiality, organization, communication, and interpersonal skills.

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.

Manages HRIS operations, implementations, upgrades, integrations, data integrity, security, reporting, and user access. Oversees testing, data conversions, technical issue resolution, payroll validation, and process automation. Provides advanced HR data analysis and serves as the liaison between HRIS and departments including payroll, benefits, recruiting, compensation, legal, and risk management. Leads departmental HRIS initiatives and supports system efficiency improvements.

Supports HR operations for employees across multiple states, with a primary focus on California. Responsibilities include employee relations, onboarding, training, performance management, investigations, policy implementation, HRIS reporting, handbook maintenance, and compliance with employment and benefits laws.

Leads HR business partnering for global business units, aligning people strategy with business goals. Advises executives, implements HR programs, manages cross-functional HR collaboration, supports organizational change, uses analytics for decision-making, and ensures employment-law compliance. The role requires strong business acumen, executive influence, global HR experience, confidentiality, and expertise in HR technologies.

Oversee the company’s human resources function, including HR policy development, compliance, escalations, labor and employment law compliance, and direct support for staffing customers and end clients. The role requires extensive HR expertise, experience supporting organizations of more than 1,000 employees, strong employment-law knowledge, and staffing-industry experience.

Serves as a strategic HR advisor to Education division leaders, aligning human capital strategies with business objectives. Leads talent management, employee relations, performance management, organizational development, change management, leadership development, compliance, and HR analytics. Provides guidance on complex workforce issues, influences senior stakeholders, and leads enterprise HR programs and projects. Requires occasional travel for business needs, training, or conferences.

Directs the organization’s human resources function, including workforce strategy, recruiting, employee relations, compliance, performance management, compensation and benefits, HRIS administration, onboarding, engagement, training, and inclusion initiatives. Advises executives and managers, leads the HR team, manages the department budget, oversees 401(k) and ESOP plans, mitigates employment-law risk, and supports acquisition-related employee integration.

Owns Launch Potato’s HR function, including performance management, total rewards, compensation and benefits, compliance, manager enablement, HR tooling, and team leadership. The role leads annual and mid-year performance cycles, compensation bands and benchmarking, benefits renewals, multi-state compliance, manager playbooks, and process automation. This player-coach position manages an HR Business Partner and a Total Rewards and People Analytics lead while improving scalable people systems for a growing, remote-first organization.

Manage global HRIS operations and roadmap, configure and improve HR systems and processes, lead complex implementations and integrations, resolve high-complexity issues, support enterprise HR programs, maintain documentation and reporting standards, and mentor HRIS analysts. The role partners with HR, IT, vendors, and business stakeholders to improve data accuracy, security, automation, and employee experience.

Supports the Talent Development team by preparing training materials, organizing LMS content, tracking participation, compiling feedback, creating course communications, maintaining training records, generating basic reports, and providing administrative project support. The internship offers practical experience in learning and development, instructional design, HR practices, and employee development programs.

Provides strategic and operational HR support to multiple clients, including HR policy development, compliance, HRIS and payroll implementation, benefits administration, onboarding, leave management, employee relations, performance management, and culture initiatives. Advises startup and private-equity-backed organizations, supports mergers and acquisitions due diligence, and manages changing client priorities while ensuring compliant and effective PeopleOps practices.

Supports daily People team operations across recruiting, onboarding, payroll assistance, benefits administration, employee relations, compliance, HRIS records, training, and employee support. Recruits frontline employees, coordinates background checks and documentation, reviews timekeeping, assists with payroll and open enrollment, maintains policies and compliance reports, and partners with managers on staffing, retention, performance, and engagement initiatives.

Provide federal recruitment and staffing support within a shared services model: conduct job analyses, write and post vacancy announcements in USA Staffing, review applications for eligibility and qualifications, prepare certificates of eligibility, coordinate offer and onboarding steps, ensure compliance with OPM/HHS/FDA policies, and respond to applicant and stakeholder inquiries.

Provide end-to-end federal recruitment and staffing support including job analyses, writing and posting vacancy announcements, assessing applications, issuing certificates, coordinating offers and pre-appointment requirements, ensuring compliance with OPM/HHS/FDA policies, responding to applicants and stakeholders, and maintaining case files and records.