Human Resources Manager; Remote in CA

Position: Human Resources Manager (Remote in CA) Human Resources Manager Location: California, United States (Remote) About BAM! Brains & Motion Education, Inc. (BAM!) is one of the fastest-growing providers of after school enrichment and summer camps. Every year, we spark joy and ignite potential in tens of thousands of students by seamlessly blending high-energy STEM challenges, character-building sports, and imaginative arts projects. Whether it’s an afternoon of discovery or a week of unforgettable summer adventure, we're dedicated to helping young minds grow. About the Role The Human Resources Manager leads our entire HR function for BAM!, ensuring HR strategy aligns with business objectives, enhancing our employee experience, and maintaining compliance with relevant employment laws. You serve as a key strategic partner to our leadership team, managing and mentoring our HR team and ensuring all HR operations—from payroll to culture—are running efficiently and HR strategy is tightly integrated with financial and organizational goals. This role is absolutely central to the heart and soul of BAM! We need a leader who can transform our remote structure into a vibrant, joy-filled, and deeply connected workplace. With a distributed team of over 50 professionals across the nation, you will be the driving force in creatively designing the employee experience, ensuring every person feels seen, celebrated, and valued. If you have a proven passion for building an inclusive, fun, and thriving remote culture, this is your opportunity to spark the same joy in our staff that we spark in our students every day. Key Responsibilities In this role you will: • Serve as our primary culture and engagement champion, proactively designing, leading, and implementing creative, fun, and impactful community-building and recognition initiatives. You will be responsible for celebrating our team's successes and ensuring every remote employee feels connected, energized, and genuinely valued as a core part of the BAM! family. • Directly manage our HR and Payroll Specialist, our HR administrative lead, and an external HR consultant. • Partner with our recruitment team and hiring managers to develop recruitment and corporate hiring strategies, including reviewing pay structures, ensuring market competitiveness, and participating in interviews as needed. • Lead and oversee our entire new hire experience. This includes finalizing offer letters, standardizing the onboarding process and experience, and creating HR training content. You will also be our designated compliance lead and liaison for background checks, including with the California Department of Justice’s background check system (Live Scan), responsible for reviewing results and making final employment eligibility decisions. • Administer employee benefits programs, including enrollments, terminations, and leave management. Serve as the primary employee support and vendor liaison, coordinating closely with external HR consultants. • Drive performance management by coaching managers, aligning expectations, and ensuring consistency in performance evaluation and corrective action processes. • Maintain and enforce all HR policies and procedures. Ensure our HR Handbook and related programs are consistently up-to-date and fully compliant with legal and organizational standards. • Advise managers on complex HR issues and policy application, leveraging existing external HR consultants when needed. • Manage employee relations matters, including formal grievances and policy violations. Provide guidance on employee relations matters, including managing investigations, mediating conflict, and ensuring fair and consistent application of HR policies. Develop and oversee our exit interview processes and standard offboarding procedures. • Oversee timely and accurate handling of all Workers’ Compensation and unemployment claims and serve as policy liaison for related insurance matters. • Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local employment laws (FLSA, FMLA, ADA, EEO, etc.), maintaining policies and required postings. • Manage the development and deployment of HR compliance and policy training. Ensure all necessary training is delivered to staff and… Apply tot his job