Director of Human Resources - On-Site (Irvine)

Eggs Unlimited; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Generous PTO

Life & disability insurance

Free daily lunch

Job summary

Eggs Unlimited in Irvine, CA seeks a business-minded, hands-on Director of Human Resources. This role partners with executives to align people strategy with aggressive growth, new markets, and acquisitions, while building scalable leadership and HR infrastructure.

You will mentor a People Generalist, oversee payroll and benefits, and drive practical, results-oriented HR initiatives with urgency and care for employees.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive HR leadership or HRBP experience advising executives/managers.
• Commercial experience in a high-growth, sales-driven, or operationally intensive business.
• Experience aligning people strategy with growth, profitability, and execution.

Responsibilities

• Align people strategy with business goals and growth plans.
• Partner with executives and leaders to attract, develop, and retain top talent.
• Lead succession planning and HR change initiatives during rapid expansion.
• Oversee HR operations, payroll, benefits, onboarding, and employee relations in collaboration with Legal.

Skills

HR leadership

Business partnering

People strategy

Change management

Leadership coaching

California employment law

Education

Bachelor's degree

SHRM-SCP or similar certification

Job description

Eggs Unlimited is seeking a business-minded, hands-on Director of Human Resources for our Irvine, CA office. This leader will align people strategy with the business objectives of a rapidly growing company that is aggressively expanding its capabilities, leadership bench, business reach, and organizational scale.

The ideal candidate thinks like a business leader and has helped an organization scale through major growth in headcount, revenue, complexity, new business lines, geographic reach, or acquisitions. This role requires competitive intensity and urgency toward growth, execution, problem-solving, and winning, while maintaining respect and professionalism in all people interactions. The right person will help develop exceptional leaders, compliment efforts to help retain top talent, build scalable infrastructure, and favors practical solutions over bureaucracy.

The Director will advise executives, lead significant people and organizational matters, and assist in developing a People Generalist who owns routine HR operations, payroll and benefits administration, onboarding, employee support, and basic employee relations.

Core Responsibilities:

Business Partnership, Commercial Alignment & Scale

• Align people strategy, organizational priorities, and workforce investment with commercial goals, customers, revenue growth, profitability, and execution
• Partner closely with executive, sales, commercial, operations, and functional leaders to build exceptional leadership, attract and retain top talent, and scale organizational capability
• Help build people infrastructure ahead of aggressive expansion, including new markets, business lines, acquisitions, and major increases in headcount and complexity
• Bring appropriate business aggression, competitive intensity, and urgency to HR while favoring practical, business-enabling solutions over unnecessary bureaucracy

Culture, Leadership & Performance

• Reinforce a culture built on strong values and exceptional business results
• Coach leaders to build high-performing, results-oriented teams with clear accountability and measurable performance expectations
• Lead practical performance management, reviews, leadership development, retention, and timely action on performance concerns
• Balance high standards with respect, transparency, recognition, employee engagement, and genuine care for employees

Succession Planning & Business Continuity

• Help lead succession planning for all key leadership and business-critical roles, protecting critical knowledge, leadership capability, and business continuity
• Establish successors, readiness assessments, development milestones, owners, and timelines; drive timely execution and report risks and progress to leadership

Mergers, Acquisitions & Change Management

• Lead the people aspects of M&A, including HR due diligence, organizational and leadership assessment, critical-talent and culture risks, and change management
• Execute post-acquisition integration across leadership, structure, communication, culture, systems, and talent—on time and while maintaining business continuity

Employee Relations, Culture & HR Leadership

• Lead complex employee relations, investigations, conflict resolution, performance actions, and employment-risk matters in partnership with Legal and leadership
• Set strategy for recognition, engagement, employee communication, company events, and culture-building initiatives
• Help lead and develop the People Generalist; oversee payroll, benefits, onboarding, HR systems, policies, compliance, metrics, and controls without owning routine transactions
• Use workforce and performance data to guide decisions, manage risk, and measure progress; operate with urgency and take issues through resolution
• Travel occasionally based on business needs, including domestic travel and international travel to the Philippines

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of progressive HR leadership or HR Business Partner experience, including advising executives and managers
• Commercial experience in a high-growth, sales-driven, customer-focused, or operationally intensive business
• Demonstrated success aligning people strategy with growth, profitability, customer outcomes, and business execution
• Experience scaling organizations through major growth in headcount, revenue, complexity, geographic reach, or business lines
• Expertise in complex employee relations, investigations, conflict resolution, performance management, leadership coaching, and California employment law
• Experience building high-performance cultures, leading succession planning, and developing leaders and HR team members
• Practical, low-bureaucracy style with strong business judgment; comfortable pursuing growth aggressively with urgency, ownership, resilience, and a drive to win
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred; SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or comparable senior-level certification also preferred

Strongly Preferred:

• Experience leading M&A due diligence, leadership assessment, integration, and change management while maintaining business continuity and culture
• Experience in a fast-paced, startup-like, sales-driven, food, distribution, logistics, trading, or supply-chain environment
• Experience helping scale an organization through a major step-change in size, such as doubling or tripling headcount or supporting comparable revenue and complexity growth

Why Eggs Unlimited and Compensation & Benefits:

• Join at the “second floor” of a hyper-growth company rapidly becoming a skyscraper – help build what comes next.
• Outsized impact opportunity – building people, leadership, culture, & support continued expansion.
• Partner closely with executive leadership to shape growth, talent, succession, culture, and organizational scale.
• Help shape the people strategy of an entrepreneurial company growing aggressively.
• Access meaningful advancement opportunities as the company continues to expand.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Company-paid life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Generous PTO that increases annually.
• Free daily lunch, snacks, and refreshments.
• Base Pay: $175,000 - $250,000 annually