HR Generalist

Yelzkizi; Canada; On-site; CAD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative game studio is seeking a dynamic HR professional to enhance employee experience and streamline HR processes. In this role, you will facilitate onboarding, manage employee documentation, and support immigration procedures while developing strong relationships with employees. Your expertise in HR policies and regulations will be crucial in advising staff and ensuring compliance. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a creative environment where your skills will help shape the future of the studio. If you are adaptable, growth-oriented, and passionate about HR, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant HR experience in a technical environment.
• Strong understanding of employment regulations and policies.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating onboarding and orientation for new hires.
• Managing time-off requests and leave of absence tracking.
• Supporting the annual compensation process.

Skills

Verbal and written communication skills

Microsoft Office proficiency

Understanding of provincial labour standards

Flexibility to manage multiple priorities

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources

Tools

BambooHR

Lever

Job description

Job Description

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Blackbird Interactive is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent game studio where the best talent in the industry can find long-term careers to help grow their abilities while working on a wide range of projects, which encompass world-class IPs as well as our own creations across multiple genres.

Responsibilities

1. Facilitating onboarding and orientation for all new hires from pre-hire throughout their first 3 months to ensure a positive and engaging employee experience.
2. Ensuring timely employee documentation is processed as employees grow, move to new projects, or utilize their benefits.
3. Supporting our immigration consultants by gathering the data and staying informed on requirements to streamline and manage studio immigration procedures.
4. Coordinating the relocation process alongside external vendors as needed.
5. Developing strong relationships with employees by acting as a primary point of contact for day-to-day HR questions, requests, and issues.
6. Advising employees on policies and procedures, time off, and benefits programs.
7. Supporting the annual compensation process by assisting with the completion of compensation surveys, creating reports, and data reporting.
8. Reviewing and maintaining various HR policies alongside the executive team and department managers.
9. Liaising with benefit providers, acting as a central point of contact to resolve issues, and disseminating new policy information and related materials.
10. Tracking and managing all leave of absence requests and medical accommodations.
11. Managing time-off requests by generating reports, following up with managers and employees on leave of absences and returns to work.
12. Working closely with Production on compensatory time off, ensuring up-to-date information is correctly tracked on each employee.
13. Ensuring managers and project leaders have the right access, workflow approvals, and everything is documented in SOPs.
14. Creating reporting on Payroll including sick days and transfers to submit to the Finance team.
15. Looking for opportunities to automate and simplify manual and repetitive tasks.
16. Maintaining data integrity via workflow configuration, data entry, reports, access & permissions, and new module implementation in our HRIS (BambooHR).
17. Maintaining and expanding HR metrics through preparing, analyzing, and organizing HR reports.
18. Partnering with stakeholders to identify and create programs related to initiatives such as wellness, retention, benefits, and employee engagement.
19. Participating in workforce planning with people and department leaders.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources or a related field and 3+ years of relevant HR experience.
• Exposure to the full cycle recruitment process, preferably in a technical and/or start-up environment.
• Growth-oriented and adaptable to change, comfortable with ambiguity, and using judgment, approaching situations with curiosity and openness to learn.
• Strong understanding of the regulations and policies of provincial labour standards.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with individuals at all organizational levels.
• Strong computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), HRIS, and/or ATS systems (BambooHR, Lever).
• A high degree of flexibility to manage multiple priorities effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Chartered Human Resources Professional designation (CPHR) is an asset.
• Strong project management skills and initiative, with the ability to turn ideas into action.
• Experience creating customizations in an HRIS system.

How to Apply

Apply via: https://jobs.lever.co/blackbirdinteractive/3a0fc837-0e56-48fe-bb24-6a1560e77e1c