Top HR & Recruiting Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead the configuration, enhancement, reporting, security, testing, and support of Workday across payroll, absence, time tracking, HCM, talent, and compensation. Develop business processes, calculated fields, reports, dashboards, and audit controls; lead release testing and issue resolution; ensure data quality and scalable solutions. Partner with People, IT, and cross-functional stakeholders, advise senior partners, mentor team members, and guide Workday best practices and policy development.

Lead full-cycle recruiting for design and specialized technology roles, with a focus on sourcing, talent advising, market mapping, candidate experience, and senior stakeholder partnership. Build always-on talent pipelines, use data and AI to improve recruiting strategies, and flex into Product Management, Data, and other technical searches. Develop San Francisco’s design community through events and relationships while collaborating across People, compensation, operations, and candidate experience teams.

Lead the design and product lifecycle of Gusto’s enterprise talent capability framework and learning ecosystem. Build scalable taxonomies, modular learning architecture, enablement programs, and workflow-integrated solutions across individual contributor and leadership tracks. Partner with HR, executives, content designers, and People Technology teams to validate capability needs, define technical requirements, embed AI-native skills, and measure learning effectiveness. Use data, rapid prototyping, automation, and A/B testing to continuously improve learning products and support organizational development.

Leads enterprise recruiting process transformation, operational excellence, and technology-enabled improvements. Oversees Recruiting Operations and Candidate Experience teams, redesigns workflows, implements automation and AI solutions, establishes governance and KPI dashboards, improves candidate and hiring-team experiences, and partners with senior stakeholders across Recruiting, People Technology, Legal, Finance, IT, and Security. Coaches managers and teams while driving measurable improvements in recruiting efficiency, compliance, service levels, and candidate satisfaction.

Develop and scale compensation programs, policies, and workflows supporting pay equity, market competitiveness, compliance, and business strategy. Lead merit, equity, and benchmarking cycles; analyze survey data; build dashboards and automated reporting; optimize compensation and HRIS tooling; craft offers; and advise HR, Finance, Legal, recruiters, and executives on compensation decisions and total rewards.

Supports compensation programs and cycles, including merit, promotions, equity refreshes, benchmarking, and offer modeling. Maintains compensation data across Workday and Pave, conducts audits, prepares reports and dashboards, responds to compensation inquiries, and supports pay compliance activities. Uses AI and automation to improve recurring analysis and documentation while partnering with HR, Finance, Legal, and business leaders.