Senior HR Project Manager

Anime Universe, INC; Toronto; Remote; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative company as a Senior HR Project Manager, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of work culture and entertainment. In this unique opportunity, you'll lead high-impact HR projects, ensuring seamless execution and alignment across teams. This role offers the chance to create a legendary work environment, focusing on autonomy and collaboration within a remote-first global team. If you have a passion for driving people-centric initiatives and thrive in dynamic settings, this is the perfect chance to make your mark and help build something extraordinary.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in project management or HR initiatives.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead HR program execution and cross-team alignment.
• Drive process optimization and maintain project documentation.

Skills

Project Management

HR Program Execution

Organizational Skills

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Process Optimization

Communication Skills

Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree

PMP Certification

Change Management Certification

Tools

Notion

Asana

Slack

Miro

Google Drive

HRIS tools

Job description

Join to apply for the Senior HR Project Manager role at Anime Universe

Location: Remote

Jurisdiction: Global

Minimum commitment: 20 hours per week

Department: Human Resources

Reports To: HR Leadership

This is not a job. It’s a stake. A rare entrepreneurial opportunity to create something legendary from the ground up—and we want you in the room.

We are offering an equity partner role, not a traditional salaried position. That means:

• No upfront cash compensation
• Equity (shares) plus potential future token-based rewards (pending legal clearance)
• Future salary unlocked by revenue milestones
• Remote-first, async-friendly, autonomy-heavy global team

Why Join Anime Universe?

At Anime Universe, we’re building the future of entertainment and work culture at the same time. As a Senior HR Project Manager, you’ll help shape how our global team operates—from onboarding and compensation models to equity systems, leadership programs, and cultural rituals.

This role puts you at the center of it all. You’ll lead the delivery of high-impact, cross-functional people projects that influence every lane, core, and partner in our ecosystem.

Role Overview

As Senior HR Project Manager, you’ll be the key driver behind HR program execution, cross-team alignment, and system rollout across Anime Universe. You’ll take vision and turn it into reality—ensuring the infrastructure behind performance, rewards, onboarding, and growth runs with clarity, speed, and consistency.

What You'll Own

Project Execution:

• Lead sprint-to-sprint delivery of key HR programs and systems
• Define milestones, manage timelines, and resolve execution blockers across all people-related initiatives
• Maintain velocity, transparency, and accountability across complex, cross-core HR launches

Strategic Coordination:

• Collaborate with leadership, scribes, and stakeholders to align on deliverables and timelines
• Drive progress across onboarding, compensation, culture, and development initiatives
• Host retrospectives, lead updates, and keep contributors aligned

Documentation & Systemization:

• Own and maintain structured project documentation, milestones, and decisions
• Ensure documentation, process flows, and templates are systematized and repeatable
• Track KPIs and progress using structured dashboards and tools

Process Optimization:

• Champion Anime Universe’s frameworks (Ebb & Flow, Catalyst Ignition) to structure work effectively
• Continuously refine execution rituals and delivery workflows
• Drive improvements that help teams move faster with less friction

What You Bring to the Table:

• Proven success executing HR or people-centric initiatives with structure and urgency
• 5+ years in project management, operations, or people program delivery (ideally within high-growth companies)

Execution Fluency:

• Strong organizational skills—you balance short-term detail with long-term goals
• Able to break down complex objectives into actionable workflows and timelines

HR & People Systems Acumen:

• Familiar with HRIS tools, performance systems, equity tracking, onboarding flows, and people ops cycles—especially in startups
• You’ve helped deploy or optimize internal people platforms or talent systems

Tool Proficiency:

• You’re fluent in tools like Notion, Asana, Slack, Miro, and GDrive
• Bonus if you’ve created dashboards or implemented sprint planning systems

Independent Drive & Cross-Functional Agility:

• You know how to align product, legal, creative, and HR to deliver big outcomes
• You’re calm under pressure, clear in communication, and bias toward progress

Bonus Points For:

• PMP, Agile Project Management, or Lean Certification
• Change Management Certification (e.g., Prosci, ACMP)
• Experience with HRIS tools like BambooHR, Lattice, Rippling, or Gusto
• Familiarity with equity or token-based compensation models
• Background launching or scaling people systems in creative, entertainment, or anime-adjacent environments
• Experience managing distributed, async-first teams

How We’ll Know You’re Crushing It:

• HR programs and systems are launched on time and aligned across teams
• Contributors feel clear, supported, and able to thrive inside fast-moving projects
• Project documentation is trusted and adopted across teams
• Bottlenecks get resolved fast, and cross-functional syncs flow smoothly
• The people-side of the company scales as confidently as the product side

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Other

Job function

• Project Management and Information Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet