Top HR Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead global HR business partnering for R&D, Engineering, Product, Security, and Research organizations. Advise senior technical executives, align talent strategy with business goals, architect AI-native organizational structures, evolve career frameworks, manage succession and retention, guide complex change, and coordinate People Team centers of excellence. Lead a global HRBP team while applying people analytics and executive coaching to improve organizational health, leadership effectiveness, and workforce outcomes.

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.

Own the end-to-end People lifecycle for M&A: lead HR due diligence, partner with Corporate Development, build cross-functional integration playbooks, orchestrate Recruiting/Comp/Immigration/Payroll workstreams, and design day-1 onboarding and retention programs to integrate acquired technical teams under compressed timelines.

The HR Business Partner advises managers and employees on workforce planning, performance management, employee relations, engagement, organizational development, compensation, benefits, and succession planning. The role handles investigations and conflict resolution, ensures compliance with labor laws, updates HR policies, supports learning initiatives, and analyzes HR metrics including turnover, engagement, and DEI data. This six-month contract requires strong communication, discretion, HR expertise, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced startup environment.

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 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.

Provides on-site HR support for a predominantly Spanish-speaking workforce across assigned locations. Responsibilities include hiring and onboarding, bilingual orientations and training, employee relations, leave and workers’ compensation coordination, performance programs, compliance audits, HR reporting, records management, benefits and payroll issue resolution, transfers, and offboarding. Coaches supervisors, identifies compliance risks, manages statutory deadlines, and escalates sensitive matters to regional HR leadership. Travel between locations and jobsites is approximately 30–40%.

Serve as the standalone onsite People Partner for California’s engineering and software workforce, managing employee relations, investigations, performance matters, manager coaching, onboarding, compliance documentation, and day-to-day HR support. Provide remote People Partner coverage for international teams, collaborate on People Operations and employee lifecycle processes, support policy and systems projects, and advise leadership on organizational health. The role requires independent judgment, California employment law expertise, and comfort working in a high-growth technology environment.

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

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.

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.

Administer employee leave and disability accommodation cases from intake through resolution. Review eligibility and documentation, advise employees and leaders on leave and benefits coordination, collaborate with legal counsel and vendors, support policy development and manager training, conduct reporting and system audits, test processes, and maintain Workday accuracy while ensuring regulatory compliance and positive employee experiences.

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 complex HR operations workflows across employee changes, HR systems, payroll, benefits, compliance, and global employment processes. Improve HRIS configurations, automation, reporting, data integrity, documentation, and operational controls. Partner with HR, Finance, Legal, IT, managers, payroll providers, benefits vendors, and international employment partners to resolve issues and build scalable, audit-ready processes.

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.

Manage design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of custom Workday reports, dashboards, and integrations. Collaborate with HR stakeholders to define requirements, ensure data integrity, troubleshoot report issues, perform audits and reconciliations, and support release impact analysis, documentation, and training to drive HR reporting, planning, and compliance across multiple affiliates.

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.

Hands-on HR generalist supporting HR operations, benefits administration, compliance, pay equity auditing, onboarding/offboarding, employee relations, and process improvement. Provide surge recruiting support, maintain HR documentation, analyze HR metrics, and use AI tools to automate and streamline People workflows across the US and Canada.

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.

Serve as a trusted HR advisor to leaders and employees across assigned business groups. Responsibilities include organizational design, workforce planning, talent and succession planning, employee relations, performance management, compensation support, engagement initiatives, leadership development, workforce analytics, policy implementation, compliance, and employee training. The role collaborates with HR centers of excellence and business leaders while managing multiple priorities and supporting organizational change.

Senior HR leader responsible for full-spectrum people strategy and operations for a fully remote, unionized nonprofit. Owns HRIS/PEO, benefits, payroll, compliance, CBA administration, grievance management, employee relations, performance management, organizational design, and leads the People Operations team. Advises executives, coaches managers, oversees investigations, drives retention and DEIA-aligned people strategies, and manages vendor relationships.

Supports HR information governance, policy lifecycle administration, knowledge management, and SharePoint content administration. Maintains HR documentation, metadata, inventories, workflows, review schedules, version histories, and repositories. Creates and edits knowledge articles, coordinates stakeholder approvals, supports ServiceNow and Microsoft 365 tools, and develops reporting on content health and governance compliance. The role also assists with content migration, archival, process improvements, user support, and HR leadership reporting.