Manager, Human Resources

**About Boat Rocker Studios** An independent, integrated global entertainment company, Boat Rocker Studios’ mission is to tell stories and build iconic brands across all genres and media. With offices around the world, Boat Rocker brings end\-to\-end creative expertise, robust business operations, and global franchise capabilities across Scripted, Unscripted, Documentary, and Kids \& Family content. Its services span production, distribution, and brand \& franchise management. In partnership with Industrial Brothers, Boat Rocker develops, produces, and exploits Industrial Brothers' innovative and original animated series for preschool and family audiences. A selection of Boat Rocker’s projects includes Invasion (Apple TV\+), Palm Royale (Apple TV\+), Mix Tape (BBC, Binge, RTE), Video Nasty (BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Three, Virgin Media One, WDR), This Is the Tom Green Documentary (Prime Video), Orphan Black: Echoes (AMC), American Rust: Broken Justice (Prime Video), Beacon 23 (MGM\+), Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (Hulu), Downey’s Dream Cars (Max), BS High (HBO), Orphan Black (BBC AMERICA, CTV Sci\-Fi Channel), Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry (Apple TV\+), The Next Step (BBC, Corus, CBC), Daniel Spellbound (Netflix), Dino Ranch (Disney\+, Disney Junior, CBC), and Dino Ranch: Island Explorers (Amazon Kids\+, CBC, Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA).For more information, please visit www.boatrocker.com. **The Role** The Manager, Human Resources plays a key role in supporting the full employee lifecycle and delivering day\-to\-day HR support to employees, managers, and executives across Canada, the US, and the UK. This role operates as a trusted partner to the   production studio and corporate teams, ensuring effective delivery of core HR processes, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, employee relations, HR operations and benefits/compensation.   The ideal candidate is a proactive, detail\-oriented self\-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset who thrives in a fast\-paced environment and embraces a “no job is too big or too small” approach. Collaborative and engaging, they serve as a primary point of contact for HR\-related matters, provide consultative guidance, ensure compliance with applicable regulations, and contribute to ongoing HR initiatives and process improvements while fostering a positive and high\-performing culture. **Responsibilities** * **Business Partnership / Employee Relations** * Build relationships with business leaders and people leaders to establish credibility as a trusted advisor and strategic partner. * Provide effective coaching, counseling and performance strategies on all employee relations situations in alignment with best practices and demonstrating sound understanding of employment law and applicable legislation. * Support employee relations efforts by responding to questions, addressing concerns, and assisting HR leadership with investigations or documentation. * Partner with management on day\-to day HR operational demands such as performance management, termination, conflict resolution, and accommodation requests. * Provide communication and change management expertise on business initiatives and support people leaders at all levels to effectively facilitate change. * Maintain HR libraries including job descriptions, policies, and templates. * Prepare employment verification letters, reports, presentations, and other HR correspondence. **Recruitment \& Onboarding** * Manage full\-cycle recruitment, including posting job openings, scheduling interviews, prescreening candidates, coordinating candidate communications, and supporting background checks. * Draft and prepare offer letters, employment confirmations, and other hiring documentation. * Facilitate new hire onboarding, including system setup, orientation, documentation collection, welcome materials, and coordination with internal stakeholders. * Ensure smooth offboarding, including HRIS updates, payroll and benefits changes, exit packets, and access removal. **HR Operations \& Employee Support** * Maintain and update employee information within HRIS. * Administer health, dental, vision, and other benefit programs. * Manage enrollments, changes, terminations, leave of absence claims, and open enrollment processes. * Provide consultative guidance to employees and managers regarding compensation and benefits policies. * Prepare employment verification letters, reports, presentations, and other HR correspondence. * Support compensation programs and salary reviews. **Project Support** * Support HR department projects and initiatives aimed at continuous improvement, automation, and efficiency. **Qualifications** * Post\-secondary education with focus on Human Resources or related field preferred. * 5 years of experience in Human Resources, including HR Business Parter experience. * Strong knowledge of HR policies, employment law, and best practices in Canada and US (experience with UK legislation considered an asset). * AI fluency in leveraging AI tools to drive efficiencies and value add improvements * Continuous improvement mindset to solve individual issues, and to instill best practices or systems thinking to embed processes and solve for future issues * Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and professionalism. * Strong decision\-making, problem\-solving, and conflict\-management skills. * Exceptional organization, time management, and attention to detail. * Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe Suite. **Salary Range:** $85,000 \- $110,000 Boat Rocker is committed to hiring and supporting diverse candidates. We strongly encourage applications from people who identify as being part of an under\-represented and equity\-deserving group. This would include people who identify as racialized, Black, Indigenous, women, LGBTQ2SI\+, and having a disability among others.