Top HR Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

Manage HR team objectives, systems, budgets, policies, metrics, reporting, and employee support. Advise managers and staff on HR procedures, compensation, labor regulations, and policies. Evaluate HR software, develop compensation and benefits packages, monitor HR costs, and lead HR operations improvements.

Manage HR team objectives, systems, budgets, policies, metrics, reporting, and employee inquiries. Advise managers and staff on HR procedures, labor regulations, compensation, and benefits. Evaluate HR software and lead policy and process improvements while managing the HR team.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Execute the final phase of an HRIS and payroll data migration from ADP to Rippling. Responsibilities include extracting and archiving historical employee and payroll records, mapping and uploading data, organizing files in Rippling and Google Drive, auditing records for accuracy and compliance, protecting sensitive PII and PHI, and reporting migration progress to HR and Payroll leadership.

Support recruiting and general HR administration for data center teams. Develop sourcing and hiring strategies, manage end-to-end interview processes, coordinate with leaders and client groups, analyze recruiting metrics, address employee HR inquiries, maintain confidential records, and assist with HR projects. The role also leads international recruitment initiatives and provides mentorship as the recruiting function grows.

Own fractional people operations for a distributed international team. Responsibilities include multi-country payroll, contractor classification and tax documentation, recruiting pipeline management, onboarding and offboarding systems, access management, PTO tracking, SOPs, offer templates, and policy documentation. The role requires independently building scalable HR processes, using automation and AI to reduce recurring work, and coordinating across US, Central Asian, Georgian, and Latin American time zones.

Analyze workforce data and develop HR dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, visualizations, and automated reporting solutions. Identify trends across the employee lifecycle, evaluate engagement and employee programs, ensure data quality and compliance, and provide actionable recommendations to HR and business leaders. The role also supports employee listening strategies, reporting process improvement, data governance, and executive-level presentations.

Lead companywide recruiting and help build the organization’s people infrastructure. Responsibilities include sourcing candidates, developing compensation and retention programs, managing payroll and benefits, overseeing performance evaluations, creating onboarding and training processes, and advising leadership on employment-law compliance. The role supports a distributed team and works closely with executive and legal teams.

Provide multi-site HR support including payroll/benefits/timekeeping inquiries, recruiting and onboarding (including Intern/Co-op), HRIS data and reporting, records management, site coordination, vendor support, SharePoint content maintenance, and process improvement. Escalate complex or sensitive issues to HR partners.