Top HR Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

As a Senior HR Business Partner, you'll support leaders in managing performance, employee relations, and organizational priorities while contributing to core HR initiatives and building trust across teams.

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.

The Principal People Success Partner drives talent strategies for Sales and Marketing, partners with senior leaders, influences organizational health, and leads transformations using AI.

The Director, Head of Total Rewards will develop and execute global compensation, benefits, and equity strategies to attract and retain talent. This role involves overseeing total rewards programs, ensuring compliance, and advising senior leadership on compensation matters.

Fixed-term (maternity cover) Senior HR Business Partner to provide employee relations, manager coaching, performance management, and People program continuity. Partner with leaders, People Ops, Legal, Finance, and Recruiting; support immigration processes and external counsel; maintain compliance and people systems; enable change, talent planning, and manager effectiveness in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.

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.

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.

The Director HR Technology & Talent Analytics leads the global ownership of Workday, enhancing HR data capabilities, managing change, and fostering relationships with executives to leverage workforce analytics.

Lead HR operations across multi-location restaurant businesses: recruit, onboard, develop, and retain staff; manage employee relations, compliance, benefits, HR systems, training, and workforce planning while partnering with leadership to reinforce culture and operational standards.

Provide administrative HR support including onboarding, maintaining employee records, assisting recruitment, handling routine employee questions, supporting payroll/timekeeping, organizing trainings/events, and preserving confidentiality.

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

Provide administrative HR support including onboarding, recordkeeping, recruitment assistance, payroll/timekeeping support, employee communications, training/event coordination, compliance monitoring, and ad hoc HR projects while maintaining confidentiality.

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

Lead enterprise talent acquisition and HR AI transformation: develop TA strategy, run full-cycle recruiting, enhance employer brand and early careers programs, implement AI-enabled tools and governance, build workforce analytics and predictive models, deliver executive dashboards, upskill teams, and partner cross-functionally to align talent strategy with business goals.

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.

Serve as trusted HR advisor supporting leaders and employees on employee relations, performance management, organizational effectiveness, HRIS data and compliance, and HR program improvements across U.S. and international teams.

Short-term remote contract to support UAT for SAP HR with UK payroll focus. Mainly resolving issues during testing. Full-time engagement expected for 2-3 weeks.

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.

Provide first-level HR support for employees and Career Advisors, manage HRIS/payroll processes, oversee onboarding/offboarding, handle employee relations and investigations, administer performance cycles, coordinate projects, internships and engagement activities, analyze HR metrics, and leverage AI/automation to improve HR processes.