Top Senior HR Jobs in Seattle, WA

Serve as a trusted HR partner supporting employees, managers, and leaders across the employee lifecycle. Responsibilities include onboarding and offboarding, employee relations, policy and employment-law compliance, performance management, compensation analysis and planning, records management, conflict resolution, and continuous HR process improvement. The role provides guidance on sensitive workplace matters, promotes a positive employee experience, and helps maintain consistent, compliant, and effective HR practices.

Owns end-to-end HR operations for US and Canadian employees and contractors, including onboarding, offboarding, benefits, employee records, compliance, employee relations, performance management, compensation reviews, manager training, and HR systems. The role administers Rippling, Lattice, and Ashby, supports SOC 2 compliance, coaches managers through performance issues and PIPs, maintains policies, and coordinates benefits and training vendors.

Leads global compensation and benefits programs, including salary structures, incentive plans, equity, benefits, open enrollment, 401(k), leave administration, compliance, audits, and payroll coordination. Owns HR metrics, systems, policies, process improvements, change management, and AI-in-HR strategy. Partners with leadership, vendors, payroll, IT, and external stakeholders to improve employee experience and operational efficiency.

Own end-to-end multi-state payroll, HRIS administration, compliance, reporting, integrations, and HR operations for clients. Lead HRIS and payroll implementations, system configurations, workflow automation, change management, employee lifecycle processes, and stakeholder workshops. Advise clients on employment law compliance, maintain data integrity and audit readiness, resolve payroll issues, and optimize people processes across varied organizations.

Partners with AI engineering leaders to improve organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, workforce readiness, and change management. Coaches leaders, advises on organizational design, talent, succession, culture, and high-stakes decisions. Uses HR data, diagnostics, talent processes, and AI insights to develop scalable people solutions, strengthen leadership teams, and support strategy execution.

Owns the people workstream for mergers and acquisitions from diligence through close and integration. Responsibilities include building diligence questionnaires, analyzing employment and compensation data, assessing risks, modeling compensation and equity structures, supporting negotiations, managing integration readiness, and developing reusable playbooks and automation. The role partners with corporate development, legal, finance, and people leadership while operating across global, confidential, and often ambiguous transactions.

Own the HR function as a hands-on solo operator, managing recruiting, onboarding, multi-state payroll, benefits, HRIS data, compliance, policies, performance cycles, compensation operations, employee relations, engagement, and office administration. Partner with Finance, Legal, IT, and leadership while supporting U.S. and Italy employees, improving workflows, and maintaining reliable people programs in a distributed technology company.

Serve as a strategic HR business partner for Cloud + AI, advising leaders, diagnosing organizational effectiveness, driving talent and leadership development, applying data-driven insights and AI-enabled tools, leading strategic projects end-to-end, and delivering scalable HR solutions in partnership with HR centers of excellence and business stakeholders.

Leads enterprise HR reporting, dashboards, workforce analytics, data governance, quality controls, and reporting automation using Workday and related tools. Partners with HR leaders and business stakeholders to deliver executive-ready insights for workforce planning, talent strategy, compliance, and organizational effectiveness. Serves as a Workday reporting subject matter expert, resolves complex data issues, improves reporting processes, and mentors junior analysts.

Administers and improves employee benefits and leave programs, including health, retirement, disability, FMLA, accommodations, and annual enrollment. Ensures regulatory compliance, data accuracy, payroll reconciliation, vendor performance, employee communications, and timely case resolution. Partners with HR, Payroll, Legal, managers, employees, third-party administrators, and HRIS teams on complex cases, system testing, reporting, wellness programming, and process improvements.

Provide senior HR leadership and strategy across payroll, benefits, HRIS, talent acquisition, onboarding, employee relations, performance management, and compliance. Build retention frameworks, define HR KPIs, manage HR team and vendors, maintain legal compliance, draft HR budgets, and partner with leadership to drive culture, engagement, and organizational development.

Provides strategic and hands-on HR partnership to the U.S. Sales organization. Advises leaders on workforce planning, organizational design, talent development, performance management, employee engagement, change leadership, and employment compliance. Leads complex employee relations matters, investigations, disciplinary processes, absence management, and exits. Uses workforce insights to improve retention and effectiveness, collaborates with HR functions, supports policy and program development, and participates in employee recognition initiatives.

Supports and optimizes HR technology by analyzing requirements, configuring HCM modules, developing tests, resolving production issues, maintaining data integrity, supporting integrations and reporting, and leading system enhancement workstreams. Partners with HR, Payroll, IT, vendors, and business stakeholders while ensuring privacy, security, governance, documentation, training, and continuous improvement. Provides subject-matter expertise, coaches users and analysts, and applies responsible AI practices.

Serve as US HR SME managing compliance, HRIS (HiBob), PEO liaison (ADP TotalSource), onboarding/offboarding, payroll and benefits (including 401(k)), employee relations and ER cases (PIPs), policy updates, audits, and US-specific HR projects while partnering with global HR and payroll teams.

Leads on-site HR operations for a multi-entity seafood organization, advising managers and employees on workplace matters, investigations, performance management, compliance, benefits, leave, payroll, safety, recruiting, and onboarding. Ensures compliance with federal and multi-state employment laws, maintains audit-ready records, supports audits and process improvement, and partners with corporate teams. The role requires strong judgment, communication, regulatory expertise, and hands-on support at the West Seattle facility.

Provides strategic and tactical HR support across employee relations, investigations, performance management, compliance, compensation and benefits, recruiting, training, HR programs, and reporting. Advises employees and managers, manages investigations and performance reviews, analyzes HR metrics, supports leave and accommodation matters, conducts training, and prepares regulatory reports. The role is full-time onsite in Seattle with occasional travel.

Partner with functional leaders to translate business strategy into people strategy. Own org design, performance management, compensation, talent development, engagement, and retention. Provide coaching on career pathing, change management, and sensitive employee issues. Use people data to generate insights and recommendations, build compliant HR policies, manage global employee relations, and collaborate with People Team COEs to deliver cohesive people programs at scale.

Leads multi-state payroll administration, benefits, onboarding, HR shared services, compliance, employee data integrity, HR and payroll systems, reporting, analytics, and process improvements. Manages payroll and HR operations teams, resolves payroll and tax issues, monitors regulatory changes, supports audits and year-end reporting, and advises HR leadership using workforce insights.

Supports the employee lifecycle through HR operations, leave and immigration administration, employee relations, compliance, HRIS administration, people analytics, reporting, and manager coaching. The role administers Rippling workflows, maintains employee records, coordinates employment-based immigration processes, builds workforce dashboards, supports performance and compensation programs, and manages separations. This six-month contract role is onsite three days weekly in Kirkland and supports U.S.-based employees.

Lead employee relations, engagement, performance, and HR operations for a 220-person, multi-site affordable housing organization. Conduct investigations, coach managers, run performance cycles, manage benefits/leave/HRIS, design engagement and onboarding programs, ensure compliance across WA/OR and coordinate with offshore staff. Partner with Recruiter and Payroll while building scalable HR processes.

Supports daily People team operations across recruiting, onboarding, payroll assistance, benefits administration, employee relations, compliance, HRIS records, training, and employee support. Recruits frontline employees, coordinates background checks and documentation, reviews timekeeping, assists with payroll and open enrollment, maintains policies and compliance reports, and partners with managers on staffing, retention, performance, and engagement initiatives.

Senior HR leader and strategic partner to the Executive Leadership Team responsible for people strategy across shoreside and shipboard operations. Leads organizational design, leadership development, succession planning, change management, employee relations, compensation and benefits strategy, HR operations and compliance, workforce planning and budgeting to support scalable growth and strong organizational culture. Hybrid role with periodic travel (~10%).

Serves as a strategic HR business partner to executives and leaders, leading workforce planning, organizational design, talent and performance management, employee relations, engagement, leadership development, compliance, HR operations, analytics, and global people initiatives. The role advises leaders, mentors HR professionals, drives organizational change, improves HR processes, and supports growth, transformation, and employee experience across the organization.

Build and operate core HR processes, including onboarding, offboarding, performance reviews, merit and promotion cycles, career pathing, employee recognition, learning and development, benefits support, and immigration assistance. Own the implementation and configuration of Rippling, using AI tools to improve efficiency while maintaining compliant documentation, data handling, and decision-making practices. Partner closely with employees and managers in a growth-stage company.

Analyze workforce data and develop HR dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, visualizations, and automated reporting solutions. Identify trends across the employee lifecycle, evaluate engagement and employee programs, ensure data quality and compliance, and provide actionable recommendations to HR and business leaders. The role also supports employee listening strategies, reporting process improvement, data governance, and executive-level presentations.