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Senior HR Manager

Timbre Games are a Vancouver based early-stage game development studio with over 100 years of founding leadership. We believe culture drives creative, where we draw on community and diversity to build truly unique experiences.

Our mission is to build a world class network of Game Studios; to provide accessible awesomeness to our players, to our team, to the world.

Everyone has a story. Come write yours!

As a human, you’re a visionary explorer, a pursuer of fun, and focused on building community. You see an opportunity within games to do more and to have more than “ just a job”. You’ve had unique experiences both at work and personally that have expanded your curiosities to seek the root of a problem, to seek out issues, and work with people to explore solutions! Your experiences have made you who you are, and that has led to you understanding the importance of diversity in both thinking and in people. Oh, and games… You may like those, too!

You are a dynamic and versatile leader with extensive experience leading HR and Talent Acquisition teams, your vocation happens to be an extension of the best elements that make you unique and special… you are a champion for diversity, equity and inclusion, and you care about promoting a strong sense of belonging where skills and talents can be explored from an environment that feels safe and creative. You have a deep understanding of situational leadership and differing communication styles encountered on teams made up of highly creative game developers, you approach everyone you encounter with kindness, curiosity, and humour. You are hyper-organized and can embrace a rapidly changing environment with grace and curiosity. You bring a coaching mindset to your work and you take pride in building an HR culture based on trust.

Your Impact as a Senior HR Manager at Timbre Games and Atomhawk

• Working as a key member of the Timbre Games and Atomhawk Design Leadership teams and in partnership withSumo Group HR leadership, create, and successfully implement a people-first HR and Recruiting strategic plan, ensuring everyone is aligned in its vision.
• Lead execution of HR employee lifecycle processes including executive coaching, employee engagement, organization design, workforce planning and succession management, people development, compensation planning, and communications and change management
• Continue to innovate and grow a high quality, people-first HR operations team that utilizes analytics and reporting to inform and execute HR strategies that drive a culture promoting creativity, diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and continued development.
• Acting as confidential partner to leadership and the whole team, provide advice, support and guidance – both in person and remotely - on the application of core HR policies and procedures, including, but not limited to; contracts & amendments, all types of absence, disciplinary, performance/capability and grievance issues, flexible working and restructures, and overall team member’s work happiness
• Identify and deploy engagement drivers and work with leaders, managers, and team members to manage their action plans.
• Working in collaboration with the Global Mobility Manager, to ensure visa compliance, right to work and employee transfer opportunities overseas.
• Partnering with Studio Directors and management teams to support delivery of studio/departmental strategic plans.

Realms of Accountability Include:

• In partnership with the Studio Directors groups and Sumo Group’s wider recruitment team, own the planning and execution of Timbre Games and Atomhawk’s hiring strategy.
• Oversee the studio’s overall HR and payroll processes with People & Finance Administrator & HR Office Manager
• Ensure the HR function is legally compliant in all areas of responsibility. Ensure all HR Policies and processes are regularly reviewed and communicated, in order to continue to reflect both up-to-date employment law and best practice.
• Drive the studios total compensation plans in partnership with studio leadership to ensure our offerings are competitive and innovative for our industry.
• Exploring, leading and/or supporting a range of HR projects, to include reacting to legislative changes, employee engagement initiatives and retention activities.
• In partnership with Sumo’s Learning and Development teams, expand and evolve our studio’s organizational capacity and potential through discussions and global training initiatives and supporting innovative development of our leadership team as well as developing localized training
• Consistent knowledge and expertise sharing with the wider Sumo Group HR Management & ensure they are kept up to date will all matters of relevance/importance for your areas of responsibility.

Your Track Record Might Include:

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field plus 7+ years of innovative partnership as an HR Manager, Business Partner, HR Operations Manager, or similar HR Leadership role supporting teams in a rapidly growing and evolving organization
• HR data, systems and process expertise, including Operations, Total Rewards, L&D, Recruiting and HR Business Partnership, supporting the leaders to support and empower their teams through growth and change.
• People leadership experience, including extensive experience evolving and implementing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives and practices that are complimentary to a creative and technology-based organization.
• Extensive communication abilities and emotional intelligence, and has developed as a trusted partner to both leadership and peers
• Extensive experience exploring creative and people-first solutions to complex challenges that might stem from company growth, communication breakdowns, challenging projects, acquisition, or a number of other factors that can impact a studio.

Timbre Games are headed up by industry veterans in beautiful Vancouver, BC. Our experience stretches through mobile to AAA (think Gears of War, the Sims, SSX, FIFA, Age of Empires, among others!). We’re excited to build a ‘playoff ready’ studio that is centered on creativity, humour and diversity. We can’t wait to share our first project that we’re secretly working away on, and we welcome your application with open arms as we grow a world-class studio here in Canada!

· Competitive salary & benefits

· Annual bonus & RRSP matching

· 20 days paid vacation, plus Christmas week off

· Remote / Work from home / Flexible hours

· Open door policy with direct access to leadership

· Industry veterans with a wealth of knowledge to share

Timbre recognizes the importance of creating an environment where all our employees feel included and empowered. We believe that culture drives creative, we value each employee’s unique experiences and perspectives across our company and recognize that it is both the smart and right thing to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion within our organization.

By diversifying our workforce, increasing equality, and ensuring that our individual differences are valued, we are better able to deliver an experience that reflects, inspires, and connects with our audience... because games are for everyone!

At Timbre Games, we believe that 'Culture drives Creative' and we celebrate all backgrounds and attributes that make us unique and amazing - in this world and the ones we create! If you are excited about what we’re building at Timbre Games, we want to hear from you, even if you don’t think you check all the boxes!