Senior HR Generalist (Remote, US)

About the Role: 

Newsela is seeking a Senior HR Generalist to join our People Team, with a primary focus on supporting front line managers and leaders. This role is centered on day-to-day people support, performance enablement, employee relations guidance, and change execution.

This role partners closely with People Business Partners to support leaders through performance conversations, employee relations matters, organizational changes, and culture initiatives. The HR Generalist will act as a trusted point of support for managers, helping ensure people processes are applied consistently, thoughtfully, and in alignment with company values.

This is a hands-on role ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, is comfortable supporting a variety of leaders, and brings strong judgment, empathy, and execution rigor to manager and employee support.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Support leaders with performance management guidance, employee relations support, and people-related problem-solving in a fast-paced environment.
• Coordinate and administer performance management processes, including timelines, manager enablement resources, training support, communications, and documentation. 
• Advise managers on conducting effective performance conversations, delivering constructive and actionable feedback, and navigating sensitive employee situations, escalating to People Business Partners as appropriate.
• Support employee separation processes in partnership with People Business Partners, People Operations, and Legal, ensuring compliant, timely, and empathetic execution.
• Conduct exit interviews, synthesize themes, and share insights to inform retention, engagement, and manager effectiveness efforts. 
• Analyze people and performance data to identify trends, flag risks, and surface opportunities for additional support, training, or process improvements.
• Provide backup support to People Business Partners as needed.

About You:

• 5+ years of HR Generalist experience, specifically in a SaaS or Edtech company
• Experience directly supporting leaders and managers, including guidance on performance conversations, employee relations matters, and organizational change.
• Demonstrated experience supporting high-performing teams in professional, fast-paced, performance-driven environments.
• Working knowledge of U.S. employment laws and HR best practices; multi-state experience preferred.
• Proven ability to manage sensitive and confidential matters with discretion, sound judgment, and professionalism.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence without authority.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace and comfort navigating HR systems and data.

Why you’ll love working at Newsela:

• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts. Additional benefits such as pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, and more to help you stay healthy: mind, body, and soul. 
• Work From Home: We are a fully remote company. We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs!
• Supporting ALL Families: Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more! 
• Financial Wellbeing: Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match to help you build long-term financial security.
• Time Off: Flexible PTO plus 10 company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st).
• Professional Development: Newsela offers an annual learning and development allowance to employees to attend external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and educational materials to foster professional growth within their current role and career aspirations at Newsela.
• Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.

Newsela takes authentic, real world content from trusted sources and makes it instruction ready for K-12 classrooms. Each text is published at five reading levels, so content is accessible to every learner. Today, over 3.3 million teachers and 40 million students have registered with Newsela for content that's personalized to student interests, accessible to everyone, aligned to instructional standards, and attached to activities and reporting that hold teachers accountable for instruction and students accountable for their work. With over 15,000 texts on our platform and multiple new texts published every day across 20+ genres, Newsela enables educators to go deep on any subject they choose.

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