HR Generalist

Our client is a fast-growing, multidisciplinary organization that brings together several unique business verticals across art, fashion, retail, café/hospitality, and creative brand partnerships
.

The company has a creative, multicultural, and inclusive culture and is at an exciting stage of growth where it is building greater structure and infrastructure across the organization. Technology and innovation are important to the company, including the use of modern tools and AI to improve efficiency and operations.

This is a great opportunity for an HR professional who enjoys building, creating structure, and having a direct impact
. The HR Generalist will work closely with leadership and have significant ownership over onboarding, employee experience, HR processes, compliance, recruiting, and culture.

For someone coming from a creative agency, fashion, art, retail, hospitality, media, or similarly multidisciplinary environment
, this offers an opportunity to bring their HR expertise into a unique and evolving organization where they can make a meaningful impact.

Location: Brooklyn, NY
Schedule: Monday-Friday, On-Site
Employment Type: Contract
Experience: 7+ Years

We are seeking an experienced, hands‑on HR Generalist to take ownership of the day-to-day HR function for a growing, multidisciplinary organization operating across creative, retail, café, art, fashion, and brand partnership environments.

A top immediate priority for this role will be building and implementing a structured onboarding process. The organization currently does not have a formalized onboarding program, creating bottlenecks and inconsistencies for new hires. The successful candidate will take ownership of onboarding from start to finish, ensuring new employees are prepared before their start date, properly documented, introduced to the organization, and set up for success.

Beyond onboarding, this individual will be responsible for building structure around the broader HR function
, including employee relations, compliance, documentation, policies, recruiting, benefits, payroll support, and employee engagement.

Approximately 50% of the foundational HR processes are already in place, but they need to be centralized, formalized, and consistently executed. This is an opportunity for a senior HR professional who can step in, assess what is currently working, identify gaps, and build a more organized and scalable HR infrastructure.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of progressive HR experience
, strong knowledge of employment law and compliance, experience handling employee relations and disciplinary matters, and a demonstrated ability to build HR processes from the ground up. Strong hands‑on experience with Justworks is highly preferred.

• Build and implement a formal, consistent onboarding process.
• Establish onboarding timelines, milestones, documentation, and ownership.
• Ensure new hires are fully prepared prior to their start date.
• Coordinate onboarding across managers, leadership, and new employees.
• Create a consistent process for orientation, paperwork, systems access, benefits, policies, and introductions.
• Identify and eliminate current onboarding bottlenecks.
• Establish a positive and professional new-hire experience.
• Develop processes that support employee engagement, retention, and commitment.
• Manage employee milestones, including anniversaries, birthdays, employee lunches, feedback initiatives, and other culture-building activities.

• Take ownership of the organization’s day‑to‑day HR operations.
• Assess existing HR processes and identify gaps, inefficiencies, and bottlenecks.
• Build, formalize, and centralize HR policies,…