Senior HR Manager – Global Remote Operations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ecuador.

📋 Description

• Oversee daily HR operations for a remote, globally distributed team.

• Manage the processes of employee onboarding, orientation, documentation, and offboarding.

• Keep accurate employee records, organizational charts, HR files, contracts, and compliance documentation.

• Assist with workforce planning, succession planning, and updates to organizational structure.

• Act as a primary point of contact for employee relations, workplace issues, policy guidance, and HR compliance.

• Provide advice to managers and employees regarding HR policies, performance standards, documentation, and employee development.

• Collaborate with payroll, bookkeeping, finance, and benefits teams to ensure accurate HR and payroll processes.

• Support HR and payroll compliance in Ecuador as needed, including coordination of statutory benefits, local employment documentation, and government-mandated requirements.

• Lead performance review cycles, initiatives for employee development, corrective action processes, and implementation of HR strategies.

• Review, enhance, and standardize HR policies, procedures, templates, and workflows.

• Ensure HR practices comply with relevant labor, employment, payroll, tax, and data privacy regulations.

• Provide HR insights and reporting to assist in leadership decision-making.

• Foster a positive, professional, compliant, and performance-oriented remote work culture.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 5 years of demonstrated experience as an HR Manager, Senior HR Generalist, HR Business Partner, or in HR leadership roles.

• Experience in supporting global, remote, or distributed teams.

• Strong understanding of HR operations, employee relations, performance management, compliance, and HR documentation.

• Familiarity with Ecuadorian labor practices, payroll coordination, IESS, SRI, employment documentation, and statutory benefits is strongly preferred.

• Experience in integrating HR processes with payroll, bookkeeping, finance, or benefits administration.

• Solid knowledge of labor, employment, payroll, and compliance practices.

• Exceptional leadership, communication, problem-solving, and organizational abilities.

• Capability to work independently in a remote setting while collaborating with international teams.

• High attention to detail, confidentiality, and professionalism is essential.

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Accounting, Psychology, Law, or a related field.

• HR certifications such as SHRM, PHR, CIPD, or equivalent are advantageous.

• Bilingual communication skills in English and Spanish are highly preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary with potential increases based on performance.

• Full-time position requiring 40 working hours per week.

• Paid training and performance-based bonuses.

• Applicable statutory or government-mandated benefits, depending on location and engagement structure.

• Long-term remote role with opportunities to shape company-wide HR strategy.