Senior HR Manager - North America

Working at The Adaptavist Group

The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.

We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, Monday.com and Aha!

We make change happen. From anywhere.

Our flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.

About the role

The Senior HR Manager will report directly to the Global Head of HR, and lead a small team of HR professionals in region. Our North American employees are distributed largely remotely, across multiple states both in the US and Canada. 

The Senior HR Manager will be accountable for leading on all people-related initiatives in the region, ensuring we deliver an exceptional employee experience through a blend of operational and strategic initiatives including compensation, benefits, employee relations, reporting/analytics and compliance.

What you'll be doing

• Act as a main day to day contact for all North American staff in relation to all People matters.
• Advise, upskill and influence our senior leadership in the region in order to solve People related issues and evolving organisational needs.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with federal, state and local employment laws, regulations and best practices.
• Act as expert stakeholder on all US benefits and related programs.
• Management of change programmes to include organisational design.
• Management of Group company pay review and promotions process.
• Develop, report on and provide actionable insights and strategy across key People metrics, to help drive business decision making.




This list is not exhaustive - any other duties which may be required to undertake this role.

What we're looking for

• Current, evidenced and relevant Human Resources experience in North America across a matrixed organisation, of a size no smaller than 200 headcount. 
• Current SHRM designation or equivalent evidenced experience, showing continuous professional development.
• Has held the position of business partner/advisor to senior leadership and/or management in an organisation.
• Expert knowledge of advising stakeholders with regards to federal/state specific, statutory reporting requirements relating to employees in the US, in relation e.g. W2s, 1099s.
• Evidenced knowledge of employment laws, EEOC requirements, FLSA/wage-hour laws etc.
• Expert knowledge of North American benefits and insurance brokerage, administration and application across a diverse group of employee requirements. 
• Experience applying HR policies, fair labor laws and employee relations protocol.
• A strategic thinker, but able to apply hands-on experience in order to resolve challenges and move things along.
• A passion for storytelling with data, along with an ability to decipher raw data directly and translate into insights.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to interact and communicate with individuals at all levels of the organisation.
• Critical thinker including the ability to understand the “big picture” and trade-offs, able to negotiate and challenge effectively.
• Innovative ‘out of the box’ thinker who can adapt to an agile work environment.
• Experience at an advanced level of the US benefits and healthcare landscape.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic technical organisation with a rapidly expanding customer base.
• Previous experience of change management and internal communication strategies, with a high level of comfort in rapidly evolving environments.
• Experience delivering HR solutions in other international locations would be highly beneficial.
• A second language other than English is desirable.
• Experience of mergers and acquisitions would be beneficial.




Whilst this role is in the main hybrid working (1 day+ per week in office), a willingness to travel is appreciated to visit our offices when needed e.g. celebration events, gatherings, quarterly meetings etc.

At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status. From our family-friendly policies to our flexible work environment we offer a range of benefits and policies in order to support staff from all different backgrounds. If you have any questions, please do ask us.

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We look forward to your application!