Top Senior HR Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Partners with senior leaders and employees on HR strategy, employee relations, employment-law compliance, workforce planning, talent acquisition, compensation, benefits, engagement, succession planning, onboarding, training, and performance management. Leads change initiatives, investigations, calibration discussions, and people programs while promoting an ethical, inclusive, and high-performing workplace.

Supports HR activities throughout mergers and acquisitions, including due diligence, Day 1 readiness, employee transitions, integration planning, workforce changes, compliance, change management, and post-close execution. Coordinates workstreams, tracks milestones, prepares reports and communications, manages confidential information, and collaborates with HR, Legal, Finance, IT, and business stakeholders. Maintains M&A playbooks, project tools, checklists, and lessons learned to improve future integration processes.

Lead and oversee HR service delivery across the employee lifecycle, executing complex Workday/HRIS transactions, coordinating projects and process improvements, producing reports and metrics, ensuring compliance and audit readiness, and partnering with cross-functional teams to maintain data integrity and operational excellence.

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.

Leads NRDC’s HR technology strategy, HRIS governance, systems implementations, integrations, data integrity, reporting, compliance, and operational workflows. Owns Dayforce HCM and partners with HR, IT, Finance, Payroll, Legal, and vendors to optimize employee lifecycle processes, automate workflows, improve system usability, and support secure, accurate workforce data. Manages and develops the HRIS team while overseeing onboarding, benefits, payroll connections, offboarding, documentation, change management, and technology portfolio improvements.

Leads the global HR Partner team and serves as a strategic HR advisor to executives and internal clients. Responsibilities include workforce planning, organizational design, talent management, employee relations, compensation, DEI, policy interpretation, investigations, performance management, HR analytics, and organization-wide HR initiatives. The role manages team performance, partners with senior leaders, ensures legal and regulatory compliance, and travels to NRDC offices up to 20% annually.

Provides strategic and hands-on HR partnership to designated business groups, advising leaders on employee relations, talent management, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, performance management, compensation, recruiting, compliance, benefits, leaves, and employee engagement. Conducts investigations, supports corrective actions and separations, manages recruiting and onboarding processes, analyzes workforce data, and implements HR strategies and programs while ensuring compliance with California and federal employment laws.

Manages HR systems strategy, administration, optimization, integrations, data integrity, governance, reporting, and analytics. Partners with HR, IT, Finance, and business leaders to translate requirements into system solutions, improve workflows, support upgrades, and evaluate AI-enabled tools. Serves as the HR technology subject matter expert and may mentor others without formal supervisory responsibility.

Performs broad HR generalist duties including onboarding, offboarding, benefits and leave administration, employee relations, performance management, compensation, HRIS administration, policy implementation, employment law compliance, reporting, and employee investigations. Partners with managers and employees, supports training and organizational initiatives, maintains personnel records, and develops HR programs and solutions.

The Director of Human Resources partners with the Bagcraft operating unit and leads HR professionals across six U.S. manufacturing sites. Responsibilities include HR strategy, leadership coaching, employee engagement, recruiting, talent management, organizational development, change management, HR analytics, legal compliance, and labor relations. The role oversees union relationships, collective bargaining, grievances, and arbitration while partnering with centers of excellence in talent acquisition, compensation, benefits, and employee experience. Travel of up to 40% within the United States is required.

Senior HR Business Partner supporting Sales and field-based commercial teams across US and Canada. Provide strategic HR partnership to executive and senior leaders on talent strategy, organization design, succession planning, leadership development, change initiatives, performance management, employee relations, and workforce analytics. Collaborate with HR Centers of Excellence and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver integrated HR solutions, coach leaders, and improve organizational effectiveness and employee experience.

Provides day-to-day HR partnership to assigned business groups, advising managers on employee relations, performance management, talent processes, workforce planning, organizational changes, compensation, and employee lifecycle matters. Analyzes workforce trends, supports investigations and people programs, guides organizational effectiveness initiatives, and partners with senior HR leaders and cross-functional People teams in a remote-first environment.

Strategic HR partner supporting multiple business units by aligning people strategy with organizational goals. Responsibilities include workforce planning, organizational design, talent management, succession planning, employee relations, organizational change, leadership coaching, and data-driven workforce decisions. The role partners with Finance and HR functions to execute scalable initiatives while addressing day-to-day HR needs.

Design evaluation tasks for AI systems in talent management, employee relations, compensation, compliance, and organizational design. Create HR scenarios, reference outputs, policies, investigation reports, compensation analyses, organizational design proposals, and expert-level rubrics across US and international employment-law frameworks. Apply HR methodologies and enterprise HR tools while distinguishing senior HR judgment from generic knowledge.

Owns employee relations, investigations, performance management, corrective actions, and terminations for a 200+ person, multi-site, shift-based workforce. Partners with managers and site leads, builds HR processes including performance reviews and career paths, analyzes attrition and engagement, and advises on organizational design and headcount planning. Requires strong California employment-law knowledge, sound judgment, discretion, and hands-on experience supporting hourly workers.

Serve as the strategic people partner to leaders across the company during rapid growth. Lead org design, headcount planning, leveling, performance and compensation cycles, employee relations, investigations, performance improvement, and separations. Coach managers through feedback and difficult conversations, use people data to guide decisions, build scalable HR playbooks, and automate repeatable People work with AI tools.

Owns end-to-end HR operations for US and Canadian employees and contractors, including onboarding, offboarding, benefits, employee records, compliance, employee relations, performance management, compensation reviews, manager training, and HR systems. The role administers Rippling, Lattice, and Ashby, supports SOC 2 compliance, coaches managers through performance issues and PIPs, maintains policies, and coordinates benefits and training vendors.

Partners with Engineering and Product leaders on organizational strategy, talent management, employee engagement, development, compensation planning, onboarding, offboarding, compliance, and employee experience. Leads cross-functional people programs, coaches executives, analyzes HR data and trends, manages stakeholder alignment, anticipates organizational risks, and improves People Team processes and operational efficiency.

Lead HR support across North America and Europe, advising managers and leaders on employee relations, performance, organizational changes, workforce planning, and talent matters. Oversee regional HR delivery, external PEO/EOR and employment partners, employee lifecycle processes, and scalable workflows. Lead the regional recruiting function, support critical searches, coach recruiters, and improve hiring operations. Drive company-wide HR initiatives involving compensation, performance management, job architecture, HR systems, manager development, and workforce planning.

Own end-to-end multi-state payroll, HRIS administration, compliance, reporting, integrations, and HR operations for clients. Lead HRIS and payroll implementations, system configurations, workflow automation, change management, employee lifecycle processes, and stakeholder workshops. Advise clients on employment law compliance, maintain data integrity and audit readiness, resolve payroll issues, and optimize people processes across varied organizations.

Owns the people workstream for mergers and acquisitions from diligence through close and integration. Responsibilities include building diligence questionnaires, analyzing employment and compensation data, assessing risks, modeling compensation and equity structures, supporting negotiations, managing integration readiness, and developing reusable playbooks and automation. The role partners with corporate development, legal, finance, and people leadership while operating across global, confidential, and often ambiguous transactions.

Own the HR function as a hands-on solo operator, managing recruiting, onboarding, multi-state payroll, benefits, HRIS data, compliance, policies, performance cycles, compensation operations, employee relations, engagement, and office administration. Partner with Finance, Legal, IT, and leadership while supporting U.S. and Italy employees, improving workflows, and maintaining reliable people programs in a distributed technology company.

Leads enterprise HR reporting, dashboards, workforce analytics, data governance, quality controls, and reporting automation using Workday and related tools. Partners with HR leaders and business stakeholders to deliver executive-ready insights for workforce planning, talent strategy, compliance, and organizational effectiveness. Serves as a Workday reporting subject matter expert, resolves complex data issues, improves reporting processes, and mentors junior analysts.

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.

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.