Director of Human Resources - On-Site (Irvine)
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
