Human Resources Manager

Life After Law; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary benchmarking

Job summary

Life After Law is seeking a Human Resources Manager to support the Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver offices. The role can sit in Toronto or Calgary and reports to the CEO, overseeing HR operations, onboarding, training, and staffing strategy to scale the firm.

You will partner with practice leads, design staffing models, and manage a robust talent pipeline while ensuring compliance with employment standards across jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• This role requires a minimum of five years of progressive HR experience.
• Post-secondary degree or certificate in HR; CPHR or equivalent is an asset.
• Experience with HRIS systems (e.g., BambooHR, Rise, Humi).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to partner with leadership.
• Experience with salary benchmarking and benefits design in professional services.
• Experience supporting multiple offices and jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the first point of contact for day-to-day HR matters for staff and leadership.
• Align roles and tasks, review staffing to maximize productivity.
• Partner with practice leads to design staffing models, roles, capacity targets, and hiring triggers.
• Own onboarding and training programs, develop repeatable playbooks with ramp targets.
• Design and manage talent pipeline and retention infrastructure to support growth.
• Forecast staffing needs across offices and manage onboarding/offboarding.
• Collaborate with Management Committee to translate strategy into actions.
• Ensure HR policies comply with jurisdictional employment standards and safety rules.
• Manage HR budget, systems, and reporting on trends and turnover.

Skills

HR experience

People management

Interpersonal skills

Education

Post-secondary HR degree/cert

Tools

BambooHR

Rise

Humi

Job description

Our Client, a boutique national law firm, is looking to add a Human Resources Manager to its team. This person would be supporting the Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver offices and can sit in either Toronto or Calgary. Reporting to the CEO, this person will be responsible for key organizational and staffing issues, providing strategic input on people and culture initiatives, and managing day-to-day HR operations.

Your role will include:

• Serving as the first point of contact for all day-to-day human resources matters and providing timely, practical guidance to staff and leadership.
• Aligning roles and tasks to ensure every team member is operating at their highest and best use, reassigning or eliminating misplaced work through regular reviews.
• Partnering with practice leads to translate documented workflows into staffing models, including role definitions, capacity targets, and hiring triggers as the firm scales.
• Owning the firm's onboarding and training program, building repeatable playbooks tied to documented processes with defined ramp-up targets for new hires.
• Designing and managing the talent pipeline and retention infrastructure to support the firm's growth and acquisition strategy.
• Forecasting staffing needs to match practice areas and growth strategies including overseeing the onboarding and offboarding of all employees.
• Working closely with the Management Committee to champion the firm's vision and business plan, translating strategic priorities into clear operational actions across the team.
• Ensuring staff members understand how their roles connect to the firm's direction, and reinforcing that alignment through regular communication, coaching, and feedback loops.
• Overseeing annual performance reviews, structure competitive benefit packages, and administering salary benchmarking relevant to the Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver legal market.
• Providing input to the senior leadership team on the organizational strategy, ensuring the HR framework supports the firm's entrepreneurial and growth-oriented goals.
• Ensuring all HR policies adhere to the employment standards of each jurisdiction and comply with health and safety standards.
• Managing the budget, navigating our HRIS system and reporting to the leadership team on trends, turnover, and workflow.
• Maintaining a knowledge of laws, regulations, and best practices in employment and human resources fields.
• Other administrative and HR duties as required.

You are the ideal candidate if you have/are:

• A minimum of five (5) years of progressive experience in Human Resources
• Industry experience in a professional office setting is an asset (Legal, Accounting, Engineering, etc.)
• Post-secondary degree and/or certificate from a recognized HR program
• CPHR or equivalent designation is an asset
• Experience with an HRIS system (BambooHR, Rise, Humi, etc)
• Excellent interpersonal skills

This is an active opening for a current role.

The expected salary range between $110,000 and $120,000 dependent on seniority. Total compensation can include bonus or incentives.

AI may be used only for initial resume review. All other decisions are human-made.

We appreciate all candidates who take time to apply, however, only candidates with the requisite experience will be contacted.