Top HR Jobs in Chicago, IL

Resolves employee and labor relations matters, including investigations, disputes, mediations, disciplinary actions, hearings, and compliance hotline inquiries. Implements performance management and workplace conduct policies, supports collective bargaining activities, trains managers, maintains confidential records, and partners with legal, compliance, analytics, and HR teams. Coordinates employee relations projects, analyzes trends and metrics, develops preventive solutions, and advises managers and employees on employment and labor relations issues.

Supports regional HR compliance, audit readiness, governance, and labor relations activities across multiple global regions. Responsibilities include maintaining compliance documentation and trackers, monitoring remediation plans and deadlines, preparing reports and dashboards, developing training and communications materials, and supporting audits, Internal Audit, and SOX processes. The intern handles sensitive HR information confidentially while gaining practical experience in HR compliance, data analysis, reporting, and multinational HR operations.

Manages global benefits compliance, policy drafting, leave administration, ADA accommodations, and regulatory interpretation. Oversees complex leave and health-plan cases, partners with Legal and benefits providers, maintains governance and audit documentation, advises HR teams, and analyzes case data to identify compliance risks. The role requires deep U.S. leave-law expertise, including FMLA, ADA, HIPAA, NY PFL, CA PFL, and NJ TDI, plus experience supporting global benefits programs.

The HR Generalist supports the employee lifecycle through onboarding, I-9 compliance, accommodations administration, timekeeping support, employment verifications, HRIS and employee-record maintenance, policy management, and HR knowledge-base improvements. This role serves as a primary contact for employee and manager inquiries, ensures accurate and confidential HR operations, and drives process improvements that enhance employee experience, compliance, scalability, and efficiency.

Supports HRIS and people analytics projects, including Workday report standardization, data dictionary development, employee lifecycle mapping, HR metrics documentation, Hub optimization, report consolidation, and employee data administration. Collaborates with HR stakeholders while managing multiple projects and identifying process and data improvements.

Own Vizit’s end-to-end people function, including recruiting, payroll, benefits administration, multi-state compliance, onboarding and offboarding, employee relations, performance support, compensation inputs, and HR documentation. The role partners with executives and managers, administers payroll and benefits in Gusto, fills roles independently, builds HR processes, and maintains accurate employee records and compliance infrastructure.

Partners with business leaders and HR centers of excellence to align human capital strategy with business goals. Provides coaching on employee relations, performance management, compensation, recruiting, talent development, succession planning, and organizational design. Investigates complex employee issues, mitigates legal and reputational risk, analyzes workforce trends, supports compensation reviews, and drives HR transformation and process improvements. Manages a program or specialty area while coaching and supporting team members.

The Senior Manager, HR Compliance is responsible for developing and executing a compliance framework across the Americas, managing immigration and global mobility programs, and ensuring adherence to applicable laws and regulations while fostering a culture of compliance within the organization.

Provides strategic and hands-on HR partnership to Engineering, Product, and R&D leaders. Responsibilities include manager coaching, performance management, employee relations, talent and compensation programs, engagement surveys, exit meetings, organizational effectiveness, risk identification, and policy application. The role supports globally distributed teams during a six-month transition period and requires strong judgment, confidentiality, communication, and operational execution.

Leads PwC’s HR Managed Services payroll team, overseeing global payroll operations, compliance, process improvements, and transformational change. Builds strategic client relationships, develops payroll policies and practices, mentors team members, promotes payroll technology adoption, and establishes industry-leading processes across global teams. The Director provides thought leadership, drives business growth, and maintains trusted relationships across diverse stakeholders.

Serve as strategic HR partner to G&A senior leaders, leading org design and restructures, driving performance calibration, using data and AI tools to surface org health risks, and translating people strategy into measurable outcomes across global, high-growth teams.

Strategic HR partner for Technology and Platform organizations, leading organizational design, workforce planning, technical career frameworks, hiring strategy, onboarding, manager development, performance management, compensation guidance, employee relations, change management, and people analytics. The role advises senior leaders in a fast-paced trading environment while scaling technical teams and maintaining a high-performance culture.

Leads HR due diligence, Day 1 readiness, and post-close integration for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic partnerships. Assesses workforce, compensation, benefits, labor, policy, HRIS, payroll, and compliance considerations; develops organizational design and harmonization plans; coordinates cross-functional workstreams; manages risks, governance, communications, and change initiatives; and advises executives throughout transaction lifecycles.

Lead employee relations, employment-law guidance, and HR compliance. Advise HRBPs and leaders across the employee lifecycle, oversee investigations, maintain policies, run compliance audits, and manage a team to ensure consistent, defensible HR practices.

Assist with daily Human Resources needs at a behavioral hospital during a summer or fall internship. The position is unpaid and may be completed for school credit. Candidates must meet nursing education and licensure requirements listed, with psychiatric facility experience preferred, and may need CPR, behavioral management training, competency testing, flexible hours, and overtime.

Leads enterprise HR strategy, organizational design, workforce planning, change management, leadership development, and employee relations. Oversees complex investigations, grievance resolution, HR compliance, employment eligibility verification, audits, regulatory reporting, and risk mitigation. Uses HR analytics to guide organizational and talent decisions, advises executive leadership, drives organizational effectiveness and process improvement, and mentors HR team members in a regulated healthcare environment.

Provides administrative HR support across onboarding, orientation, offboarding, employee engagement, benefits, payroll initiatives, personnel file maintenance, HRIS updates, compliance documentation, and employee inquiries. Supports background checks, training administration, status changes, audits, and special projects while maintaining confidentiality and compliance with applicable employment regulations. The role is primarily split between Schaumburg and Des Plaines, Illinois, with possible limited remote work after training.

Directs hospital human resources operations, including recruitment, compensation and benefits, employee relations, labor relations, compliance, personnel systems, policies, budgeting, and department management. Advises hospital leadership on HR matters, oversees grievance and disciplinary procedures, manages orientations and personnel records, and ensures compliance with legal, regulatory, and hospital requirements.

Own weekly multi-state payroll for the US workforce, ensuring regulatory compliance, accurate records, garnishment processing, reporting, and employee support. Maintain payroll data in ADP Workforce Now, assist with recruiting and training, prepare audit documentation, administer learning-management tasks, and implement process improvements. The role also supports engagement events and requires occasional domestic travel for training, audits, and site support.

Leads comprehensive HR activities at a unionized manufacturing site, including talent acquisition, labor and team member relations, compliance, performance management, compensation, benefits, engagement, HR analytics, and talent development. Advises leaders, administers collective bargaining agreements, manages grievances and investigations, oversees HR systems and reporting, coordinates safety-related HR activities, and leads cross-functional HR projects and process improvements.

Supports HR strategy and employee needs across the US and Canada. Responsibilities include employee relations, performance management, investigations, compensation and merit programs, benefits and payroll coordination, compliance, I-9 administration, personnel records, staffing support, training coordination, audits, and employee engagement initiatives. The role partners with leaders and regional HR teams, supports multiple locations, and requires approximately 20% overnight travel.

Supports HRIS maintenance, employee data accuracy, reporting, system updates, testing, troubleshooting, onboarding and offboarding, documentation, data cleanup, and HR technology improvement projects. Collaborates with HR, Payroll, and IT while maintaining confidentiality and providing administrative support. The role is fully onsite in Chicago five days per week.

Serves as a local HR partner supporting employee lifecycle experiences, HR strategy, employee relations, performance management, manager coaching, inclusion initiatives, and workforce transitions. Builds trusted relationships with employees and business leaders, facilitates programs and events, identifies process improvements, and collaborates with HR teams to deliver effective policies, tools, and services.

Own hands-on HR operations including multi-state compliance, policy drafting, annual audits, handbook updates, payroll and benefits escalations, and leave questions. Review HR administration work, improve processes with an AI-native approach, and gradually assume broader day-to-day HR operations ownership. Requires in-house experience managing compliance across multiple states in a fast-paced environment.

Own hands-on HR operations, including multi-state compliance, policy drafting, annual audits, handbook updates, payroll, benefits, leave escalations, and process improvement. The role also reviews HR administration work and develops AI-native approaches to streamline operations. Candidates need at least two years of in-house HR generalist experience, multi-state compliance expertise, and comfort working directly across payroll, benefits, and compliance in a fast-paced startup.