HR Manager

Intellicene • United States - Colorado, CO

5d • $90,000 - $100,000

About The Position

Intellicene is seeking a hands-on, commercially minded HR Manager to provide dedicated support to employees and leaders across the Americas. Reporting to the CEO / General Manager, the role works closely with the existing HR partner and the Volaris Portfolio HR team to deliver practical, consistent people practices for a geographically dispersed workforce. The position covers the employee lifecycle, including leader coaching, organizational and talent decisions, Talent Review, compensation cycles, and employee relations. The HR Manager owns assigned priorities and collaborates with HR colleagues on company-wide programs and cross-regional matters.

Intellicene is sharpening its focus, embedding AI across its product roadmap, and building the operating discipline of a durable, profitable software business. The HR Manager will help shape how a company of roughly 120 people attracts, develops, and retains the talent it needs for its next stage. The workforce is distributed across the Americas and international locations, with a large engineering, DevOps, and QA population. Intellicene also uses employer-of-record partners in countries where it has no legal entity.

The role supports HR activities across assigned jurisdictions, working with leaders, the existing HR partner, Portfolio HR, local advisors, and business teams. Success in the first year includes establishing trusted relationships across the Americas, strengthening managers’ people leadership, supporting effective talent and performance cycles, maintaining reliable employee data, and delivering a consistent employee experience. The role supports working hours across the Americas and requires approximately 10–15% travel as business needs require.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of progressive HR experience, ideally in an HR Generalist or HR Business Partner role supporting employees and managers across multiple locations.
• Hands-on experience supporting employees in multiple countries, including direct exposure to US employment law and practical familiarity with international employment requirements.
• Broad generalist experience across employee relations, talent management, recruiting, performance, compensation, and HR operations.
• Strong manager coaching, judgment, and relationship-building skills, with credibility to advise a CEO and approachability with individual contributors.
• Commercial mindset and ability to balance business needs, employee experience, and HR requirements.
• Ability to take initiative in a decentralized environment while collaborating with HR colleagues and business leaders.
• Strong written and verbal communication, organization, and analytical skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Ability to support working hours across the Americas and travel approximately 10–15% as business needs require.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a software or technology company, particularly supporting a workforce with a large engineering population.
• Workday experience.
• SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or comparable certification.
• Familiarity with international labor arrangements, EOR partner management, and legal entity setup or conversion of EOR employees to direct employees.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO, senior leaders, and HR colleagues on organizational design, workforce planning, leadership effectiveness, and people decisions.
• Coach managers on employee relations, performance, development, difficult conversations, and building accountable teams.
• Use workforce data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and provide practical recommendations.
• Coordinate the annual Talent Review and calibration cycle in Workday, including leadership preparation and follow-through on development and succession actions.
• Support the performance management cycle with HR colleagues and business leaders.
• Build development paths to retain senior engineering, product, and customer-facing talent.
• Partner with hiring managers on workforce needs, role definition, sourcing, selection, offers, and onboarding across functions and regions.
• Manage recruiter and agency relationships and support cost-effective, timely hiring aligned with compensation structures.
• Manage employee relations matters within assigned regions in collaboration with the existing HR partner, Portfolio HR, and local advisors as appropriate.
• Support people workstreams for organizational changes, restructurings, role transitions, and acquisition or integration activity.
• Represent employee feedback in leadership planning and collaborate on Peakon engagement survey activities and follow-up actions.
• Coordinate with the existing HR partner on third-party employment arrangements and EOR providers for supported employees.
• Administer compensation and benefits programs across jurisdictions, support the annual compensation cycle, and benchmark technical and commercial roles against the market.
• Collaborate on employee recognition, engagement, and retention initiatives and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Support compliant HR practices across assigned jurisdictions in partnership with the existing HR partner, local counsel, and Portfolio HR.
• Maintain accurate employee data in Workday and collaborate on headcount, attrition, and workforce reporting.
• Implement Intellicene, Portfolio, and Volaris people programs, policies, and processes, adapting them to the company's size.

Benefits

• Meaningful ownership of HR priorities in the Americas while working alongside an established HR partner and the broader Volaris Portfolio HR network.
• Direct work with the CEO and senior leadership team on business-critical issues.
• Autonomy of an independent business with the stability, resources, and peer network of Volaris Group and Constellation Software.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level