DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES

Are you proven people person who is passionate and picky about professionalism, process and pools of talent? 

Is your utopia 100 people working smart (and working hard) to help over 10 million people a month find a job? 

If so, then read on. 

We're looking for a special someone to ensure that everybody loves working at Simply Hired.

Company Description

You want to work at a cool startup . . .

Simply Hired is a start-up company with a passion for building great technology and having some fun along the way. We prize the ability to innovate and create stupendous software solutions, as much as we applaud the wit behind a clever pun or an elegant alliteration. Though, we must admit that we enjoy playing practical jokes around the office with such enthusiasm and regularity that our HR department pretty much operates in a continual state of abject terror.

A bit more about us:

• Want to work on something worthwhile? Our mission is to help connect people with their dream job, and we operate the world’s largest job site with 5 million jobs in one place.
• Worried about a start-up making payroll? We have raised $22.3M in funding and our management team is filled with seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies.
• Wondering if anyone really cares? The industry has taken notice. We’ve been awarded PC Magazine’s Top 100 Websites, Time Magazine’s 50 Coolest Web Sites, and Business Week’s Best of the Web. 

Responsibilities

You would enjoy spending your time . . .

• 30% HR Administration - Running a tight HR ship

-Ensuring compliance with government requirements

-Administering benefits/perks and compensation changes

-On-boarding and off-boarding employees

• 30% Recruiting - Fostering a 24x7 recruiting culture

-Support managers in implementing universal hiring best practices

-Administering our referral program, generating offer letters and building a talent pool

-Help us hire dozens of great people in 2010 across multiple departments with specific cost per hire goals

• 20% Talent Development – Building a world class ecosystem for people to do the best work of their lives

-Driving our annual process to higher levels of efficiency and effectiveness

-Formalizing a training program for individual contributors, managers and execs

-Helping our managers to stay on track with their employee’s development goals

-Create our Simply Hired best practices to maximize employee productivity and satisfaction

• 20% Cultivating Culture - Creating a role model work culture

-Foster a meritocratic, supportive and appreciative community

-Work closely with our Admin team to make sure our office runs like a well-oiled machine

-Throw remarkable company and community-service events

Success

Your performance would make stakeholders wax poetic . . .

• CEO: “Because of YOU, this year 95% of our employees said they love working at Simply Hired – our best year ever.”  
• President: “Our HR department is role model of reliability and creativity.  YOU have helped our managers and employees with all their needs.”
• VP Sales: “We would never have hit our hiring plan this year if it were not for YOU.”
• Engineer: “YOU really connect community-service events with our company mission.” 

Qualifications

You’ve been there done that . . .

• Worked in HR for 9-12 years
• Maintained knowledge of industry trends and employment legislation and insures an organization's compliance -- focusing on the US (CA, MA, NY)
• Communicated changes in organization’s human resources policies and procedures and insure proper compliance is followed
• Consulted with legal counsel or other external experts as appropriate on significant HR issues
• Worked directly with managers to assist them with employee relations matters
• Recommended, evaluated, and participated in staff development
• Overseen the recruiting and hiring process, including working with the management team and hiring directors to define strategic staffing plans
• Manage an annual performance review process
• Recommended changes to the compensation program, including salary benchmarking, development of a bonus pool, and rewriting job descriptions and reclassifying positions as needed
• Developed and implemented employee satisfaction and retention programs
• Conducted exit interviews to determine reasons behind separation
• Served as a plan administrator for certain benefit programs. Audited, researched, recommended, and implemented changes and additions to employee benefits’ plans, to ensure cost-effectiveness and market competitiveness
• Maintained current knowledge and understanding of regulations, laws, industry trends, practices, and developments regarding Human Resources that may affect a company and advise management and employees accordingly
• Shown a proven ability to mentor and coach staff and foster a collaborative, team-oriented work environment

. . . and maybe been there done SOME of that, too . . .

• Maintained, recommend changes to, updated, and published an employee handbook on an annual basis
• Worked in the recruiting industry
• Prepared a Human Resources salary and benefits budget, managed and owned expenditures, and reported on variances to budget

Application Info

If you think you might be the one we’re looking for . . .

Learn More – Read our philosophy and our blog.

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Exact title/comp depends on you, but everybody at Simply Hired gets free snacks and massages!

Tags: Internet, start-up, HR, Human Resources, Talent, Recruiting, Hiring