HR Generalist

About the Role

We are seeking an HR Generalist to support the day-to-day execution of our People Operations function. Reporting to the Director of People Operations, this role is critical to delivering an exceptional employee experience across the full lifecycle, from onboarding through offboarding, while ensuring operational excellence, compliance, and cultural engagement in a fast-growing, fully remote organization.

Responsibilities:

• Onboarding & Lifecycle Management: Execute the day-to-day logistics of onboarding and offboarding. This includes managing new hire paperwork (background checks, HRIS setup, I-9s, Everify), coordinating IT needs, and overseeing week 1 onboarding logistics to ensure a "best-in-class" welcome.
• HRIS & Data Integrity: Act as a co-administrator of our HR platforms (Insperity, Lattice, Greenhouse Onboarding). You will maintain our employee files and process all data changes (promotions, manager changes, pay adjustments, etc.) with accuracy and confidentiality.
• Compliance: Support HR compliance processes in partnership with our PEO (Professional Employer Organization - Insperity) and Director of People Operations, ensuring accurate execution of established policies and procedures.
• Benefits Assistance: Serve as the first point of contact for employee questions regarding benefits. We have a benefits team of support at Insperity, but you should be knowledgeable enough to answer tier 1 questions and escalate as needed. 
• Parental Leave: Support employees through InStride’s 12-week paid parental leave program by guiding them through policy details, leave planning, and coordination of benefits. Partner with our PEO to administer leave and ensure compliance with applicable state-specific paid family leave programs.
• Payroll: Partner with our Controller and PEO payroll manager on a biweekly to ensure accurate payroll adjustments based on employee leaves, promotions, terminations etc. 
• Culture & Engagement: Help bring our culture to life by coordinating remote team-bonding events, facilitating local meet-ups, and assisting in planning our annual company-wide retreat.
• Relationship Building: Build strong working relationships across teams to ensure a seamless employee experience.
• Performance & Development: Partner with our Director, HRBP to support the operational execution of People team initiatives such as performance review cycles and engagement surveys. Support lower-tier employee relations matters and special projects as needed.

What You Need to Succeed in the Role

• 2–4 years of HR experience, ideally in a high-growth startup. Healthcare company is a plus, but not required.
• Process Obsessed: You love a good checklist. You have a natural ability to manage multiple "moving parts" without letting anything fall through the cracks.
• Tech Savvy: Experience managing an HRIS platform and owning employee data reporting. Confident using Google Sheets and AI to work smarter.
• High Empathy & Discretion: You handle sensitive employee information with the utmost confidentiality and approach every employee interaction with kindness and a "service-first" mindset.
• Agility: You are comfortable with the ambiguity of a start-up and are excited by the challenge of building processes where they may not yet exist.
• Mission-Driven: A genuine interest in pediatric mental health and a desire to support the clinicians and staff who make our mission possible.

The expected annual salary for this role is between $73,000-$82,000. Actual starting salary will be determined on an individualized basis and will be based on several factors including but not limited to specific skill set, work experience, licensure, etc.