HR Generalist

About Starbird

Starbird is a Bay Area born company and the nation’s first super-premium fast food concept. Starbird is blazing trails in the fast food industry by challenging industry conventions and serving feel good crispy chicken. While on a relentless pursuit of deliciousness, Starbird creates food people can feel good about eating. All of the food is fresh, scratch-made, created with trustworthy ingredients and served by passionate team members. Starbird makes accessing their five-star flavor easy with an omni-channel technology experience and seamless online and in-store ordering.

Starbird’s hospitality mission is to create a positive, memorable experience and connection with every single guest. Our service standards match our food, super premium. Starbird has quickly grown from our original location in Sunnyvale to nine Bay Area locations, with our most recent opening in Walnut Creek, CA. We are growing rapidly, and we’ll be adding additional locations in both the Bay Area and Southern California this year. To help fuel this growth, we are looking for hospitable and enthusiastic people to join our movement.

Why Starbird

Our team members are the lifeblood of our organization. We select team members that exhibit our company values and have a positive attitude and disposition, which is an essential attribute of everyone on the Starbird team. We believe in promoting from within our organization and helping our employees to build their skills. To encourage self-growth within our organization, Starbird provides an educational enrichment program and a language learning program for all of our employees. Whereas many companies give generously to worthy community-focused organizations, we focus our philanthropic efforts on the development and futures of all our beloved team members. These programs include but are not limited to free language learning courses and funded tuition for education courses and classes.

Overview:

The Human Resource Generalist is responsible for performing HR-related duties on a professional level and works closely with the Operating Partner in supporting the restaurants and our cloud location. This position carries out responsibilities in the following functional areas: employee file administration, payroll, recruiting, benefits administration, employee relations, training, performance management, onboarding, policy implementation, terminations, affirmative action, and employment law compliance.

Duties:

HR Administration:

• Administers various human resource plans and procedures
• Leads the development and implementation of HR policies and procedures
• Participates in developing HR processes and employee programs
• Maintains affirmative action program; files EEO-1 report annually; and maintains other records, reports and logs to conform to EEO regulations
• Supports Operating Partner and General Managers on employee relations counseling, outplacement counseling and exit interviews
• Maintains human resource information system, as well as all employee and relevant company files
• Maintains compliance with federal, state and local employment and benefits laws and regulations

Payroll and Compensation:

• Manages payroll for all of our locations, and works closely with General Managers and the Operating Partner to ensure that hours worked get recorded accurately, employees are paid correctly and on time and the business is compliant with relevant tax rules and other laws
• Administers the compensation program, ensuring salary changes are competitive as well as compliant
• Benefits Administration:
• Performs benefits administration, including claims resolution, change reporting, and communicating benefits information to employees

Recruitment:

• Conducts recruitment effort for exempt and nonexempt personnel, students and temporary employees
• Designs and implements the overall recruiting strategy
• In charge of managing job posts and talent acquisition resources for sourcing candidates
• Conducts interviews and filters candidates for open salaried positions
• Supports General Managers in their hourly employee’s hiring process
• Will work closely with CEO and Operating Partner on workforce planning

Competencies:

• Fluent in English and proficiency in Spanish a plus
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Positive attitude
• Attention to details
• Proven HR experience
• Relationship management, discretion, and judgment

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment:

This job operates in both a professional office environment and in busy restaurants. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, photocopiers, and smartphones.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are roughly Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

Travel:

Local travel among all of our locations is expected for this position.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3 to 5 years of HR experience
• HR certification a plus

Job Type: Full-time

About Starbird

Starbird is a Bay Area born company and the nation’s first super-premium fast food concept. Starbird is blazing trails in the fast food industry by challenging industry conventions and serving feel good crispy chicken. While on a relentless pursuit of deliciousness, Starbird creates food people can feel good about eating. All of the food is fresh, scratch-made, created with trustworthy ingredients and served by passionate team members. Starbird makes accessing their five-star flavor easy with an omni-channel technology experience and seamless online and in-store ordering.

Starbird’s hospitality mission is to create a positive, memorable experience and connection with every single guest. Our service standards match our food, super premium. Starbird has quickly grown from our original location in Sunnyvale to nine Bay Area locations, with our most recent opening in Walnut Creek, CA. We are growing rapidly, and we’ll be adding additional locations in both the Bay Area and Southern California this year. To help fuel this growth, we are looking for hospitable and enthusiastic people to join our movement.

Why Starbird

Our team members are the lifeblood of our organization. We select team members that exhibit our company values and have a positive attitude and disposition, which is an essential attribute of everyone on the Starbird team. We believe in promoting from within our organization and helping our employees to build their skills. To encourage self-growth within our organization, Starbird provides an educational enrichment program and a language learning program for all of our employees. Whereas many companies give generously to worthy community-focused organizations, we focus our philanthropic efforts on the development and futures of all our beloved team members. These programs include but are not limited to free language learning courses and funded tuition for education courses and classes.

Overview:

The Human Resource Generalist is responsible for performing HR-related duties on a professional level and works closely with the Operating Partner in supporting the restaurants and our cloud location. This position carries out responsibilities in the following functional areas: employee file administration, payroll, recruiting, benefits administration, employee relations, training, performance management, onboarding, policy implementation, terminations, affirmative action, and employment law compliance.

Duties:

HR Administration:

• Administers various human resource plans and procedures
• Leads the development and implementation of HR policies and procedures
• Participates in developing HR processes and employee programs
• Maintains affirmative action program; files EEO-1 report annually; and maintains other records, reports and logs to conform to EEO regulations
• Supports Operating Partner and General Managers on employee relations counseling, outplacement counseling and exit interviews
• Maintains human resource information system, as well as all employee and relevant company files
• Maintains compliance with federal, state and local employment and benefits laws and regulations

Payroll and Compensation:

• Manages payroll for all of our locations, and works closely with General Managers and the Operating Partner to ensure that hours worked get recorded accurately, employees are paid correctly and on time and the business is compliant with relevant tax rules and other laws
• Administers the compensation program, ensuring salary changes are competitive as well as compliant
• Benefits Administration:
• Performs benefits administration, including claims resolution, change reporting, and communicating benefits information to employees

Recruitment:

• Conducts recruitment effort for exempt and nonexempt personnel, students and temporary employees
• Designs and implements the overall recruiting strategy
• In charge of managing job posts and talent acquisition resources for sourcing candidates
• Conducts interviews and filters candidates for open salaried positions
• Supports General Managers in their hourly employee’s hiring process
• Will work closely with CEO and Operating Partner on workforce planning

Competencies:

• Fluent in English and proficiency in Spanish a plus
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Positive attitude
• Attention to details
• Proven HR experience
• Relationship management, discretion, and judgment

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment:

This job operates in both a professional office environment and in busy restaurants. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, photocopiers, and smartphones.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are roughly Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

Travel:

Local travel among all of our locations is expected for this position.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3 to 5 years of HR experience
• HR certification a plus

Job Type: Full-time