HR Manager

HELLO PLANET PTE. LTD.; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hello Group Inc. in Singapore seeks an experienced HR Manager to own the full HR function for the APAC region. The role blends strategy with hands-on execution, covering Singapore end-to-end and EOR hiring across APAC.

80% HR work and 20% office administration, with a lean, startup-like culture and use of AI tools to automate routine tasks. Reporting to the Regional Director, the role requires strong payroll, compensation, and compliance capabilities, plus Mandarin for liaising with Beijing

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of progressive HR experience, including sole/lead HR for a company or country.
• Strong knowledge of the Singapore Employment Act and related statutory filings.
• Experience coordinating EOR hiring across APAC markets.
• Experience in start-up or lean-team environments with hands-on execution.
• Proficiency with AI tools to automate HR workflows.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with regional leadership.
• Business-level Mandarin required for payroll and secondment matters.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain job architecture and salary bands across all levels, benchmarked against real market data.
• Lead salary increment cycles and share option pool allocation by performance rating.
• Structure promotion and incentive packages, including cost-sharing and equity/cash components.
• Manage compensation and cost allocation for Beijing secondees and EOR staff.
• Act as HR Business Partner on headcount planning, org structure and workforce decisions.
• Own HR budgeting and forecasting, including headcount cost planning aligned with P&L.
• Coordinate end-to-end EOR hiring across APAC (Korea, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines).
• Prepare and reconcile Singapore payroll, including secondees and EOR staff.
• Maintain HR compliance (CPF, SDL, Employment Act) and work pass administration.

Skills

HR strategy

Compensation design

Payroll management

Budgeting & forecasting

Stakeholder management

EOR hiring

AI automation

Advanced Excel

Mandarin (Business)

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or related field

Tools

Excel

HRIS

MS Office

Job description

About the Company

Hello Group Inc. (NASDAQ: MOMO) is a social and dating technology company. Our Singapore Regional Headquarters supports a team of approximately 50 people and coordinates hiring across several APAC markets. We are looking for an experienced HR Manager to own the full HR function for the region — a high-ownership role for someone who can set HR strategy and run it hands-on, with minimal day-to-day oversight.

About the Role

This is a solo HR function reporting directly to the Regional Director, with real visibility to regional leadership rather than a seat several layers down in a large HR organisation. We are looking for someone to set the strategy and operate it, not simply execute against one written by someone else. The role is weighted approximately 80% HR and 20% office administration, and covers Singapore end-to-end plus Employer-of-Record (EOR) hiring across several APAC markets.

We are a Nasdaq-listed company, but our Singapore office runs like a start-up. We operate deliberately lean, scopes are not rigidly bounded, and everyone carries a share of the administrative load. The person who succeeds here will move comfortably in both directions on the same day — designing job tiers and compensation frameworks in the morning, then reconciling a payroll run or filing a work pass renewal in the afternoon — and will treat neither as beneath them.

We also expect this person to work with modern AI tools to automate and compress the routine parts of the job. A great deal of HR and administrative work is now automatable, and we would rather hire someone who reclaims that time for higher-value work than someone who absorbs it manually.

Hybrid working: 3 days in office, 2 days from home.

Responsibilities

Compensation & Benchmarking

• Design and maintain job architecture and salary bands across all levels, benchmarked against real market data
• Lead salary increment cycles and share option pool allocation, including tiered distribution by performance rating
• Structure promotion and incentive packages, including cost-sharing arrangements and equity or cash components
• Manage compensation, terms and cost allocation for staff seconded from Beijing, including contract renewals and localisation decisions

HR Business Partnering & Budgeting

• Act as HR Business Partner to business unit leads on headcount planning, org structure and workforce decisions
• Own HR budgeting and forecasting, including headcount cost planning tracked against P&L
• Partner with Finance to monitor payroll and manpower costs against budget, flagging variances and cost-saving opportunities
• Maintain a weekly HR reporting cadence and synthesise quarterly OKR reviews for leadership

Recruitment & Employee Lifecycle

• Draft and benchmark job descriptions across functions and seniority levels
• Manage full-cycle recruitment: job postings, interview coordination, offer letters, onboarding and exit clearance
• Coordinate headcount approval requests and hiring plans across departments
• Manage end-to-end EOR hiring across Korea, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, including offer structuring and compliance with local labour laws

Payroll & Statutory Compliance

• Prepare and reconcile monthly Singapore payroll, including Beijing secondees and staff engaged through EOR arrangements
• Manage SDL filings, Notice of Objection corrections and related statutory submissions with SSG
• Track CPF contributions, overtime calculations and Employment Act compliance, including weekly hour thresholds
• Manage work pass administration — applications, renewals and cancellations — and track foreign worker quotas
• Maintain accurate employee records across Singapore and the EOR markets

Performance, Culture & Employee Relations

• Own the performance management cycle — OKR setting, quarterly and mid-year reviews, calibration and talent review
• Own engagement and retention: run confidential feedback and 360 cycles covering workplace stress, manager dynamics and burnout, identify flight risk, and drive action on what surfaces
• Manage employee relations end-to-end, including warning letters, PIP documentation and disciplinary correspondence
• Design and implement HR policies and guidelines with statutory compliance guardrails, and apply them consistently across the office
• Build learning and development plans, including manager capability, career pathing and internal mobility
• Support organisational design and succession planning, working with business unit leads

Office Administration & Operations

• Oversee office facilities, equipment and IT asset inventory, including issuance and tracking of laptops and office IT equipment
• Source vendors, obtain competitive quotes and manage service contracts and the office admin inventory
• Ensure the office meets building, fire safety and workplace requirements, and support relocation, tenancy and corporate event logistics
• Identify and implement automation, including AI-assisted workflows, to reduce the manual load of HR and administrative operations

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of progressive HR experience, including at least 3 years as the sole or lead HR practitioner for a company or country, covering compensation design, payroll and employment compliance
• Strong working knowledge of the Singapore Employment Act, CPF regulations and SDL and statutory filing requirements
• Experience coordinating EOR hiring across APAC markets
• Experience operating in a start-up or lean-team environment, and genuine comfort moving between strategic design work and hands-on execution
• Demonstrated use of AI tools to automate or streamline HR and administrative workflows
• Advanced Excel for compensation modelling and payroll reconciliation; proficient across Microsoft Office
• High integrity, meticulous, and able to operate independently with minimal supervision across multiple concurrent workstreams
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, comfortable working directly with regional leadership and cross-border teams
• Business-level Mandarin, required for working directly with Beijing HQ counterparts on payroll, compensation and secondment matters
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related field