Job Description
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Blackbird Interactive is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent game studio where the best talent in the industry can find long-term careers to help grow their abilities while working on a wide range of projects, which encompass world-class IPs as well as our own creations across multiple genres.
- Facilitating onboarding and orientation for all new hires from pre-hire throughout their first 3 months to ensure a positive and engaging employee experience.
- Ensuring timely employee documentation is processed as employees grow, move to new projects, or utilize their benefits.
- Supporting our immigration consultants by gathering the data and staying informed on requirements to streamline and manage studio immigration procedures.
- Coordinating the relocation process alongside external vendors as needed.
- Developing strong relationships with employees by acting as a primary point of contact for day-to-day HR questions, requests, and issues.
- Advising employees on policies and procedures, time off, and benefits programs.
- Supporting the annual compensation process by assisting with the completion of compensation surveys, creating reports, and data reporting.
- Reviewing and maintaining various HR policies alongside the executive team and department managers.
- Liaising with benefit providers, acting as a central point of contact to resolve issues, and disseminating new policy information and related materials.
- Tracking and managing all leave of absence requests and medical accommodations.
- Time-off Management: generating reports, following up with managers and employees on leave of absences and returns to work.
- Working closely with Production on compensatory time off, ensuring up-to-date information is correctly tracked on each employee.
- Ensuring managers and project leaders have the right access, workflow approvals, and everything is documented in SOPs.
- Creating reporting on Payroll including sick days and transfers to submit to the Finance team.
- Process Improvement – looking for opportunities to automate and simplify manual and repetitive tasks.
- Maintaining data integrity via workflow configuration, data entry, reports, access & permissions, new module implementation in our HRIS (BambooHR).
- Maintaining and expanding HR metrics through preparing, analyzing, and organizing HR reports.
- Partnering with stakeholders to identify and create programs related to initiatives such as wellness, retention, benefits, and employee engagement.
- Participating in Workforce planning with people and department leaders.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources or a related field 3+ years of relevant HR experience.
- Exposure to the full cycle recruitment process, preferably in a technical and/or start-up environment.
- Growth-oriented and adaptable to change, comfortable with ambiguity and using judgment, approaches situations with curiosity and openness to learn.
- Strong understanding of the regulations and policies of provincial labour standards.
- Effective communication (both verbal and written) skills with individuals at all levels of the organization.
- Strong computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), HRIS, and/or ATS systems (BambooHR, Lever).
- A high degree of flexibility to adapt to and effectively manage multiple priorities and escalate or delegate tasks appropriately.
- Chartered Human Resources Professional designation (CPHR) is an asset.
- Strong project management skills and initiative – you have the ability to convert your ideas into reality.
- Experience with creating customizations in an HRIS system.
How to Apply
Apply via: https://jobs.lever.co/blackbirdinteractive/3a0fc837-0e56-48fe-bb24-6a1560e77e1c