Director of Human Resources, Compliance and Employee Relations (In-Office)

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead programs that support compliance with federal, state, and local employment requirements.
• Monitor changes in employment law and evaluate their potential effect on company policies and business practices.
• Partner with legal counsel to update policies when laws or regulatory expectations change.
• Provide guidance regarding wage-and-hour, background-check, recordkeeping, equal-employment opportunity, anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, retaliation, disability accommodation, protected leave, and other employment-related compliance.
• Conduct or oversee internal compliance reviews and risk assessments.
• Develop corrective-action plans to address audit findings, policy gaps, or inconsistent practices.
• Ensure employment-related records are accurate, confidential, appropriately retained, and accessible only to authorized individuals.
• Ensure policies are practical, legally compliant, and aligned with company culture and operating needs.
• Establish policy-governance standards, including ownership, approval, communication, training, version control, and periodic review.
• Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear instructions for associates and leaders.
• Develop manager resources, investigation protocols, decision guides, escalation procedures, and compliance checklists.
• Cook up responses to government-agency requests, subpoenas, personnel-file requests, legal holds, and employment-related documentation requests.
• Use data to identify locations, departments, or practices requiring intervention.
• Measure the effectiveness of preventive programs and recommend continuous improvements.
• Support consistent implementation of the Team Member Handbook.
• Develop and deliver training on employment compliance, and safety.
• Educate leaders on recognizing and escalating potential associate-relations or safety concerns.
• Evaluate training effectiveness using completion data, case trends, audit findings, safety incidents, and leader feedback.
• Support compliant background-check and pre-employment notification processes.
• Identify recurring employee-relations trends and recommend policy, training, or process improvements.
• Partner with HR business partners, finance, payroll, and legal counsel on sensitive, complex, or high-risk employee matters.
• Cook up or support workplace investigations, document findings, and recommend appropriate resolutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Juris Doctor, preferred.
• At least 5 years of progressive experience in human resources, employment law, compliance, or a related field.
• Significant experience managing employee relations and compliance matters in California.
• Demonstrated knowledge of federal and state employment laws and workplace-safety requirements.
• Experience advising leaders on high-risk employee relations and compliance matters.
• Experience managing programs across a multi-location organization.
• Experience working with employment counsel, insurance providers, claims administrators, or government agencies.
• Strong analytical, strategic-planning, project-management, and change-management capabilities.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, interviewing, and documentation skills.
• Ability to handle highly confidential and sensitive matters with discretion.
• Ability to manage several complex priorities and respond effectively to urgent situations.
• Proficiency with HR information systems, case-management platforms, reporting tools, and standard office applications.

Classification

Full-Time Salaried, Exempt