Human Resources Director

Talent Fund Select Partners; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Fund Select Partners is partnering with a growing professional services organization in the Charlotte area to identify a senior HR leader who will serve as the senior internal HR expert and trusted advisor to the executive team in a hybrid Charlotte, NC setting.

The role blends strategic HR leadership with deep functional expertise, ensuring people infrastructure evolves ahead of the business and coaching managers through complex conversations and employee-relations matters.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive Human Resources experience.
• Experience as a senior HR business partner, HR leader, or functional HR owner.
• Experience serving as the senior HR resource within a growing organization.
• Hands-on employee-relations experience including performance management, PIPs, investigations, corrective actions, manager coaching, sensitive conversations, and separations.
• Ability to advise executives and senior leaders on complex and sensitive people matters.
• Experience building or improving HR programs, processes, policies, and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Developing and leading the overall people and HR strategy in alignment with growth objectives.
• Serving as a strategic advisor to the COO and organizational leaders on workforce and employee matters.
• Assessing HR capabilities and establishing a roadmap for future programs, processes, and infrastructure.
• Serving as the primary internal HR SME and escalation point for sensitive employee-relations matters.
• Guiding leaders through performance concerns, workplace conflicts, investigations, corrective actions, PIPs, and separations.
• Leading the evolution of HR policies, tools, and manager enablement.
• Partnering on compensation, benefits, organizational design, and workforce planning.
• Developing HR resources, training, and practical tools to strengthen people leadership.

Skills

Strategic HR leadership

Employee relations

Coaching managers

Policy development

Organizational design

Job description

Senior HR Business Partner / Director of Human Resources | Charlotte, NC | Hybrid

Talent Fund Select Partners is partnering with a growing professional services organization in the Charlotte area to identify a Human Resources Leader.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role that combines strategic HR leadership with deep functional expertise.

The Human Resources Leader will serve as the organization’s senior internal HR subject matter expert, trusted advisor to executive leadership, and functional owner for Human Resources.

As the organization continues to grow, this leader will be responsible for ensuring the people infrastructure evolves ahead of the business. The ideal candidate will have experience building HR capabilities within a growing company and will be equally comfortable shaping strategy, creating new processes, coaching managers through difficult conversations, and personally navigating complex employee-relations matters.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Developing and leading the overall people and HR strategy in alignment with business objectives and anticipated growth


• Serving as a strategic advisor to the COO and organizational leaders on workforce, talent, organizational, and employee matters


• Assessing current HR capabilities, identifying gaps, and establishing a roadmap for future programs, processes, infrastructure, and team capacity


• Serving as the primary internal HR subject matter expert and escalation point for sensitive employee-relations matters


• Guiding leaders through performance concerns, workplace conflicts, investigations, corrective actions, PIPs, and employee separations


• Leading the evolution of performance management processes, tools, and manager enablement


• Partnering with leadership on compensation, benefits, total rewards, organizational design, workforce planning, succession, and role structure


• Leading the development and ongoing evolution of HR policies, practices, documentation, and infrastructure


• Strengthening employee experience, engagement, retention, communication, recognition, and development


• Establishing broader talent strategy and providing leadership to talent acquisition and future HR resources


• Developing manager resources, training, and practical tools that strengthen people leadership across the organization

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of progressive Human Resources experience


• Meaningful experience operating as a senior HR business partner, HR leader, or functional HR owner


• Demonstrated experience serving as the senior or lead HR resource within a growing organization


• Experience helping an organization scale its people practices


• Deep hands‑on employee‑relations experience, including performance management, PIPs, investigations, corrective action, manager coaching, sensitive employee conversations, and separations


• Demonstrated ability to advise executives and senior leaders on complex and sensitive people matters


• Experience building or materially improving HR programs, processes, policies, manager tools, and infrastructure from the ground up


• Experience across compensation, benefits, performance management, workforce planning, organizational design, and employee experience


• Ability to operate successfully in a lean environment without relying on a large HR team or extensive internal specialist resources