Description
Human Resources Manager
Location: California, United States (Remote)
About BAM!
Brains & Motion Education, Inc. (BAM!) is one of the fastest-growing providers of afterschool 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 managers to fulfill legal requirements and maintain organizational compliance.
- Oversee HR operations, including HRIS administration, recordkeeping, document retention, reporting, and confidentiality protocols. Oversee multi-state payroll processing.
- Partner with our leadership to foster a culture of inclusion, respect, transparency, and continuous improvement that reflects BAM!’s values and supports a thriving remote work environment.
Qualifications and Experience
- 5+ years of progressive HR experience, including generalist and management-level responsibilities.
- Strong working knowledge of California employment law and other multi-state regulations.
- Proven ability to build culture, engagement, and connection in a fully remote or hybrid team environment.
- Experience managing and developing staff preferred.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficient in HRIS platforms; experience with Paycom preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
- PHR/SPHR or SHRM-CP/SCP certification preferred.
- Interest in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools is preferred. (AI expertise is not required, but curiosity and willingness to experiment is.)
Other requirements
This position is 100% remote. Due to critical compliance obligations related to state payroll tax jurisdiction, employee benefits administration, and management of complex California wage and hour laws, candidates must reside in and maintain legal residency within the State of California throughout their employment.
Why Join BAM?
- Make a Measurable Impact on Students’ Lives: Contribute to a mission that prioritizes not just academic success, but the emotional, social, and creative development of young learners, especially those from historically underserved communities.
- Be Part of an Equity-Focused Educational Movement: At BAM!, we believe every child deserves access to joyful, high-quality learning. Your work will help close opportunity gaps by preparing instructors to meet students where they are, with empathy, skill, and care.
- Join a Collaborative, Learning-Centered Culture: Work alongside passionate educators, curriculum designers, and program leaders who value reflection, dialogue, and continuous improvement. Your insights and experiences are not just welcomed, they shape the future of our programs.
Compensation: $95,000 - $105,000
Job Type: Full-Time Exempt
Work Location: California (Remote)
Reports To: Chief Executive Officer (CEO), dotted line to Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Basic Life / Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
- Voluntary Short-Term Disability
- Voluntary Additional Life / AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary Hospital Indemnity
- Flexible Time Off
Equal Employment Opportunity & Diversity
Brains & Motion Education is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
