Director of HR Operations (Payroll & Benefits Heavy)

Who are you? You are the person who knows that “HR” isn’t just policies and paperwork… it’s the infrastructure that holds the entire company together. And when it comes to payroll and benefits, you treat it like mission‑critical infrastructure, not an afterthought.

You get a strange level of satisfaction from clean payroll runs, reconciled benefits invoices, and knowing that everything is compliant across multiple states (because yes… that matters more than most people realize).

You are both strategic and hands‑on. You can sit at the leadership table talking about organizational design, retention and workforce planning… and then turn around and audit a payroll discrepancy down to the dollar.

You don’t just maintain systems, you improve them. You don’t just follow processes, you question whether they should exist in the first place.

You are comfortable navigating employee relations ...