Human Resources Manager

HendrenAI; New Jersey; Remote; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

HendrenAI is seeking a hands-on Human Resources Manager to build and run the people function for a fast-growing, fully remote team. You will own recruiting and onboarding, employee relations, performance and compensation, benefits, payroll coordination, and compliance, reporting to the CEO and executive leadership.

As an early people-focused hire, you’ll establish HR policies, the employee handbook, and scalable processes to support growth while preserving culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive HR experience in generalist/manager roles.
• Hands-on across recruiting, employee relations, performance management, benefits/payroll coordination.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. employment law and multi-state HR compliance.
• Experience with Rippling and HRIS tools.
• Excellent interpersonal and confidential matter handling.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting in partnership with managers.
• Design and run onboarding for a remote workforce.
• Develop and maintain HR policies and employee handbook.
• Serve as primary contact for employee relations and issue resolution.
• Manage performance management processes and goal setting.
• Administer compensation and benefits programs and coordinate payroll.
• Ensure compliance across a distributed, multi-state workforce.
• Maintain HR records and HRIS data integrity.
• Promote culture, engagement, and DEI across the team.
• Support leadership with coaching and people strategy.
• Oversee offboarding processes and workforce planning.

Skills

HR management

Recruiting

Employee relations

Payroll coordination

HRIS

Compliance knowledge

Communication skills

Remote work experience

Multistate compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or related field

Tools

Rippling

HRIS

Job description

• Team: People / Human Resources (reporting to the CEO / executive leadership)
• Type: Hourly, full-time
• Travel: Occasional, for team and company events

HendrenAI builds voice automation, AI agents, and large language model solutions purpose-built for the healthcare ecosystem. Our platform automates inbound and outbound workflows across pharmacy operations, scheduling, insurance verification, and billing, with deep integrations into pharmacy management systems (Liberty/RedSail) and leading EHR platforms (Epic, athenahealth). We operate on HIPAA-, SOC 2-, and HITECH-compliant infrastructure, and we serve pharmacies, health systems, and pharmaceutical companies.

Role Overview

We're looking for a hands-on Human Resources Manager to build and run the people function at HendrenAI. This is a foundational, full-spectrum role: you'll own recruiting and onboarding, employee relations, performance and compensation processes, benefits and payroll coordination, compliance, and culture. As one of the early people-focused hires, you'll establish the systems, policies, and programs that let a fast-growing, fully remote team scale while keeping our culture strong. You're equal parts strategic partner and practical operator, comfortable building from scratch and rolling up your sleeves.

Core Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting in partnership with hiring managers — from job descriptions and sourcing through interviews, offers, and closing candidates, with a focus on attracting and hiring top health tech talent
• Design and run a smooth onboarding experience that sets new hires up for success in a remote environment
• Develop, implement, and maintain HR policies, the employee handbook, and standard operating procedures
• Serve as the primary point of contact for employee relations, resolving issues with fairness, discretion, and good judgment
• Build and manage performance management processes, including review cycles, goal-setting, and manager enablement
• Administer compensation and benefits programs, and coordinate payroll with finance and external providers
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws across a distributed, multi-state workforce
• Maintain accurate employee records and manage HRIS and people systems
• Champion company culture, engagement, and DEI initiatives across a fully remote team
• Support managers and leadership with coaching, organizational design, and people strategy
• Manage offboarding processes professionally and compliantly
• Partner with leadership on workforce planning, headcount, and people budgeting

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive HR experience, including time in an HR generalist or HR manager capacity
• Hands-on experience across multiple HR functions: recruiting, employee relations, performance management, and benefits/payroll coordination
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. employment law and multi-state HR compliance
• Experience with HRIS and modern people/recruiting tools, including Rippling
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and conflict-resolution skills, with sound judgment and discretion handling confidential matters
• Highly organized and self-directed, comfortable building processes in a fast-paced, remote environment
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience recruiting and hiring health tech talent — sourcing and closing candidates across engineering, sales, clinical, and operations roles in healthcare technology
• Hands-on experience administering Rippling (HRIS, payroll, onboarding, and/or IT modules)
• HR experience at a startup, health tech, or other fast-growing technology company
• HR certification (e.g., SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP or PHR/SPHR)
• Experience scaling a people function and building HR programs from the ground up
• Familiarity with managing a fully remote, distributed, multi-state workforce
• Awareness of compliance considerations relevant to healthcare organizations (e.g., HIPAA-adjacent confidentiality, background/credential checks)

Why Join Us

HendrenAI is bringing modern voice AI and agentic automation to a healthcare system still buried in manual administrative work. As HR Manager, you'll shape how we hire, grow, and care for our team during a defining stage of the company. You'll join with a proven product, real integrations, and enterprise-grade compliance already in place — with the ownership and upside that come from building the people function early.