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HR Business Partner (Temp Role - 12 Months Duration)

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Job Title: HR Generalist

Reporting To: People Director/Sr.HRBP

Department: Human Resources

Location: Hybrid Role in San Francisco, CA or Foster City, CA

King makes great games that offer fun, bite-size entertainment experiences for everyone to enjoy and it's no surprise that creating a fun and friendly employee experience is at the heart of our values and culture.

Reporting into one of our People Directors, we are looking for a HR Generalist to join our Kingdom and be an integral part of evolving and upholding King values and our employees experience across the whole of the employee lifecycle.

This is a contract (12-month contract...with potential to convert to perm) hybrid role, with average of 1-2 days in office per week in San Francisco, CA or Foster City, CA.

We’re looking for someone who is super organized, has superb communication skills, strong data management & process implementation and is passionate about providing a phenomenal employee experience to our Kingsters. You will love supporting your client groups, providing pragmatic solutions to their everyday challenges and driving process improvements which make valuable contributions to both our employees and simplify our processes.

As an integral part of the HR team, you will play a key role supporting your collaborators with the core of our craft. Independently advising them to provide the best employee experience possible. You will also take the lead on our HR data supporting our leaders with their reporting, workforce planning, talent & performance practices and engagement action plans.

Your role within our kingdom:

• Independently advise on HR policies, practices, local regulatory requirements to resolve manager and employee policy queries linked to core HR processes, absence, probation, performance management, reward, mobility and much more.
• Counsel our managers on: performance management, subject areas and grievances to supporting our Kingsters with sickness, parental leaves. You will have excellent listening skills, be objective, fair and offer advice and feedback ensuring the employee experience continuously follows our culture and core values.
• Maintains awareness of local labor laws that may impact King. Owns policies - takes an active role in updating local policies and educating managers. Works with peers & legal to update our intranet pages as needed.
• Lead the management information for your function(s) ensuring it is reliable, relevant, and up to date, enabling leadership to make the right decisions. This will include analyzing resource data such as turnover, retention, new hires, compensation, efficiency and capability. Ensuring that resourcing, talent, succession plan and employees records are accurate and current supporting both our business and people objectives.
• You will be responsible for the maintenance of data & employee changes in workday for your areas, looking at ways to continuously improve our practices here and ways of working with our global HR Ops team
• Fostering our culture by championing training programs around local and company wide: Performance Management and talent frameworks, DE&I strategies, ethical laws, standards and policies.
• Support with the resourcing of our future talent, working with the business and talent acquisition by partnering on the junior recruitment of individual contributors, interns and other development schemes. You will partner with managers to ensure the onboarding of our new Kingsters over their first 90 days lives up to the expectations of our Kingdom, sets them up for success and the passing of their probations.
• You will support our Employee Engagement initiatives; from running focus groups, preparing communications, data collection and analysis to the coordination of team feedback and action plans to ensure we follow up on our commitments and continuously drive improvements
• Conducts Exit interviews as applicable ensuring findings from these are collected and fostered back into both people and business plans.
• Actively support other HR initiatives, projects, events, community days and other King initiatives. Develop project plans (i.e. actions, risks and issues, timelines) and support local and functional projects to help improve our employee experience.

Skills to create thrills:

• HR experience gained in a HR Advisory or Generalist role, with hands-on experience of leading end to end HR people processes while being professional, credible, and adaptable
• Strong advisory skills and knowledge and experience of applying local employment law.
• Employee relations experience
• Experience of interpreting and applying HR policies and procedures with the ability to identify potential ER issues. Has detailed understanding of local payroll and general understanding of tax implications of compensation and benefits and their related risks
• Experience running multiple activities and collaborating with others to get the job done.
• Shown attention to detail, organizational and excellent time leadership skills.
• Proven experience of data analysis, management, pulling of insights and recommendations from this. Actively listens to the business on improvements that could be made to the metrics.
• Seeks new ways to improve HR processes and outcomes by minimizing costs or contribute to process improvements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with partners, employees, and HR peers to ensure effective team collaboration and an enhanced customer/employee experience.
• Sound judgment and decision making, resolving problems, providing solutions, and taking vital actions to prevent them from developing in future.
• Appreciation and understanding of the need for confidentiality and discretion in dealing with any people related activities. Works with employees affected by changes to explain rationale and reinforce the need to change.
• Excellent IT skills – particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Bonus skills

• Experience of using HR systems such as Workday.
• Experience with using case management systems.
• Good level of all Microsoft packages including excel and PowerPoint. Is able to collect internal HR metrics and present them in a useful way.
• Basic understanding of project management methodology.
• Experience supporting the facilitation (& training) of HR processes spanning across: Performance Management, Engagement, Talent, DE&I and other people processes is an advantage.

• Experience with global teams, we are a global team!

“We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision Blizzard King, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.”