Head of People

1 week, 3 days ago
Contract
Lead
HR and Recruiting

Law Offices of Sabrina Li, P.C.

A U.S. immigration law firm focused on immigration matters for individuals, families, businesses, and institutions, with practice areas including family-based and employment-based immigration, investor visas, waivers, removal defense, naturalization, appeals, asylum, and humanitarian relief.

Law Practice / Immigration Law
11-50
Founded 2012

Description

  • Lead and continuously improve the Human Resources function across the full employee lifecycle.
  • Supervise, mentor, and develop a small HR team.
  • Partner with firm leadership on workforce planning, organizational design, succession planning, and people strategy.
  • Establish HR KPIs, build leadership dashboards, and use workforce data to support decision-making.
  • Evaluate emerging HR technologies, AI tools, and best practices to improve productivity and employee experience.
  • Oversee hiring, onboarding, development, retention, employee relations, compensation reviews, employee transitions, and offboarding.
  • Build scalable HR systems, tools, and workflows to support onboarding, offboarding, performance management, and team communication.
  • Design and improve onboarding programs, learning pathways, training resources, SOPs, assessments, and certification programs.
  • Partner with department leaders on coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development.
  • Serve as the primary HR partner for employee relations, workplace concerns, performance discussions, and conflict resolution.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Business Administration, Management, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of progressive HR/People Ops experience, including experience as a first or early HR hire in a globally distributed environment.
  • Experience leading an HR function and mentoring or managing others while balancing strategic leadership with hands-on execution.
  • Professional HR certification such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, CIPD, or equivalent preferred.
  • Proven experience leading HR in a U.S.-based law firm or other professional services environment.
  • Exceptional technology aptitude and ability to quickly learn, evaluate, implement, and optimize software platforms, digital tools, and AI technologies.
  • Demonstrated experience using AI to improve productivity, automate workflows, streamline recruitment, and create documentation and training materials.
  • Experience developing HR reports, dashboards, and workforce metrics to support leadership decisions.
  • Outstanding written and verbal English communication skills, including the ability to present clearly to senior leadership, managers, and staff.
  • Ability to work remotely with Pacific Time-aligned scheduling and maintain at least 5–6 hours of overlap with PT operating hours.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with performance-based bonuses.
  • Paid time off, including U.S. federal holidays, annual leave, and sick leave.
  • Fully remote work with flexibility to support work-life balance.
  • Opportunity to leverage AI, automation, and modern HR technology in a highly scalable people operations role.
  • Autonomy to improve processes, implement new ideas, and influence organizational growth.
  • Collaborative, high-performing global team culture focused on accountability, continuous improvement, innovation, and professional development.
  • Long-term career growth opportunities as the firm continues to scale.

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