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Overview
About the Role
We’re hiring a part-time People & Culture (P&C) Partner to own the full employee lifecycle — from first candidate touchpoint through offboarding — for our New York and Detroit studios, and Investor Communications business based in our New York studio.
This is a standalone, senior HR generalist / HR Business Partner role: you’ll be the sole dedicated People & Culture presence supporting both locations, working directly with the Executive Director and people managers across the business.
This is a high-autonomy, high-visibility role suited to an experienced HR Business Partner, Senior HR Generalist, or People Partner who wants full ownership of talent acquisition, employee relations, compliance, Learning & Development, and HR operations — not a narrow slice of the function.
The compensation listed reflects the full-time equivalent salary and will be prorated based on a 3-day-per-week part-time work schedule.
Why this role
You’ll have full ownership of the People & Culture function for two offices — real autonomy, direct executive access, and the chance to shape policy, process and culture, rather than execute someone else’s playbook. This is a role for someone who wants strategic scope and hands-on delivery in equal measure.
Key Responsibilities
What You’ll Own
Talent Acquisition & Recruitment
- End-to-end recruitment and applicant tracking system (ATS) ownership (using existing system)
- Interview coordination, structured interview design, and hiring manager enablement
- Candidate communications, employer branding, and candidate experience
- Background screening and reference checking
- Offer letter, job ad, and interview scorecard template ownership
Onboarding, Induction & Offboarding
- Welcome letters, new-hire onboarding design and execution across NY & Detroit studios, and Investor Comms business
- New joiner induction sessions
- Full leaver / offboarding cycle management
- New-hire compliance onboarding
Employee Relations
- Employee relations case management, investigations, and manager coaching across both offices
- General HR correspondence: contract changes, confirmations, salary review letters
Compliance, Risk & Data Protection
- Americas specific compliance training platform ownership (Zywave): assignment, reporting, content, and automation
- Record of Processing Activities (ROPA) maintenance, and supplier contract review
- Onboarding and compliance reporting
- New York and Michigan employment law compliance
Policy & Employee Voice
- P&C policy ownership and updates
- Employee feedback channel administration and routing
- Whistleblowing process administration
Learning & Development
- Management training design and delivery
- L&D platform ownership development actions, reporting, and trend analysis
- New-hire learning content
Reporting & Analytics
- Consolidated HR reporting and trend analysis across recruitment, compliance, ER, and development data
- Insights and recommendations for the Executive Director and leadership team
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
What You’ll Bring
- 6+ years of progressive Human Resources / People & Culture experience, including HR Business Partner or senior generalist experience
- Proven experience owning HR end-to-end in a standalone or lean-team environment — comfortable being the only HR presence in the room
- Working knowledge of New York State/NYC and Michigan employment law; multi-state HR experience preferred
- Experience managing employee relations cases and workplace investigations independently
- Familiarity with GDPR, data protection principles, and HR compliance frameworks
- Experience with HR systems such as an ATS, background screening tools , compliance training platforms, and L&D/performance frameworks
- Experience in a creative, marketing, experiential, or agency environment strongly preferred
- Excellent judgment, discretion, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner directly with senior leadership.
Benefits
What we can offer you:
- Work with a state-of-the-art product and deliver it to exciting and innovative brands.
- Learning and development opportunities that contribute to professional growth.
- A fun, engaging work culture
- Be part of a mission-driven team that values agility, integrity, and excellence.
- Opportunity to contribute to large-scale, high-impact projects from day one.
- Dedicated personal growth & development through our GrowForward programme.
Benefits and perks offered:
- Comprehensive paid time off benefits
- Hybrid work model, where our team comes into the office a minimum of 3 days per week
- Generous parental leave
- Up to 4% safe harbor company 401k match
- Comprehensive, low-cost health benefits
WHAT MAKES US, US
DE&I
Imagination believes that diversity, equity and inclusion are more than just words, and more than a legal framework or a moral obligation – they are guiding principles that, when acted upon, make us stronger, more innovative and more creative as an organisation.
We commit to not only significantly increasing our efforts to effect change today, but also to ensure that our efforts will be sustained for the long-term.
To support us on this journey we have appointed a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Board to help shape our plans to bring about positive change, to help us learn and keep us all moving forward together.
We believe the responsibility for a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace ultimately rests with all of us.
We believe that all employees should feel a sense of belonging at Imagination – regardless of their race, religion or belief, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability or background.
We believe racism has no place within our workplace or our work culture and we reject all forms of hatred, prejudice, intolerance and discrimination.
We believe that Black Lives Matter and it is our expectation that all employees become actively committed to making unbiased choices and are anti-racist in everything they do. Our Imagination community must share and live these beliefs, as diversity makes us stronger.
Our priority is humanity and our efforts towards a more diverse, more equitable and more inclusive workplace are never done.
Application
If you are not a perfect fit for the description above, please feel free to make a case for why you’re the right person for the job.
Send us a cover letter and state why you think we should consider you.
Talent comes in all forms and we want to encourage applications from as many different backgrounds as possible.
