HR Generalist

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Job Title: HR Generalist

 

About the Company:

Our client is a holding company that owns businesses in healthcare, technology, and real estate. They are centralizing HR, finance, and legal functions to improve efficiency across their portfolio companies.

 

Job Description:

This is the first HR role at the parent company. You will build HR processes and systems from the ground up. The long-term plan is to create corporate teams that support all companies in the portfolio.

In your first 90 days, you will review current employee data and files. You will also meet with the CEO and company leaders. Success means building policies, processes, and records where they do not currently exist.

 

Responsibilities of the role:

• Run full-cycle recruiting, including posting jobs, screening candidates, interviewing, and conducting reference and background checks.

• Manage onboarding in the HRIS, including I-9 verification and new hire reporting.

• Verify professional licenses before new hires start.

• Administer the HRIS, ensuring personnel files are audit-ready.

• Serve as the HR service desk for questions about policy, pay, and benefits.

• Prepare and audit payroll inputs each pay cycle.

• Ensure pay practices are consistent across companies.

• Administer benefits, COBRA, and leaves such as FMLA, ADA, and state paid leave.

• Handle compliance and worker classification across different states.

• Manage payroll tax registrations, workers’ compensation, and unemployment claims.

• Track licenses and compliance training.

• Run exclusion and sanctions screening for regulated roles.

• Handle employee relations, investigations, performance reviews, and separations.

• Build and maintain the employee handbook, policies, and HR templates.

• Lead HR integration for acquisitions.

• Report headcount, turnover, and compliance data to the CEO monthly.

 

Required Experience and Qualifications:

• Fluent English (C1 or C2 level).

• 3 to 5 years of experience as an HR Generalist.

• At least 1 year of experience as the sole or lead HR person.

• Working knowledge of US federal and multi-state employment law.

• Hands-on experience with HRIS and payroll systems.

• Sound judgment and discretion when handling confidential information.

• Ability to work independently and build processes from scratch.

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

 

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Rippling HRIS, payroll, and benefits software.

• Multi-state and multi-entity HR experience.

• Experience supporting a portfolio of businesses.

• Experience integrating acquisitions.

• HR certification (SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR).

 

Personality:

• Sound judgment and discretion.

• Ability to work independently.

• Comfortable building processes where none exist.

• Ability to manage competing priorities.

• Professional written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work directly with the CEO and company leaders.

• Able to be the first point of contact for all employee HR questions.

 

Software & Tools:

• Rippling (HRIS, payroll, and benefits).

 

Schedule:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

09:00–17:00 ET

No weekends

40 hours per week

 

Salary and Benefits:

• Payment in USD or Local Currency according to candidate's preference.

• Full-time remote opportunity.