HR Manager

at  VaynerMedia LLC

What’s up? We’re VaynerMedia! We are a contemporary global creative and media agency with an expertise in driving relevance for clients and delivering impactful business results. The independently-owned agency was founded in 2009 and has offices around the globe. In APAC, you will find us in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Japan, India & more to come! VaynerMedia has been recognized for its work at Cannes Lions, Ad Age’s A-List & Creativity Awards 2024, the Clio Awards and The Webby Awards. It is part of the VaynerX family of companies.
Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMediaAPAC is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time - PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In APAC, we are proudly +300, servicing a diverse client all around the region.

THE PITCH

VaynerMedia Australia is looking for a self-starter, a team player, and someone with infectious energy for developing people, relationship building, and cultivating great culture within an ever-growing team. You should be a natural people person, highly organized, detail-oriented, skilled at multitasking and understand the fast-paced nature of a newly established office. You thrive on finding creative solutions and understand that at a growing company, you will wear multiple hats as you tackle the most important needs together with the team for the business at any time, understand the nature of the world of human resources, and take the confidentiality and importance of the role with the utmost professionalism.
The Human Resource Manager is both a strategic and hands-on role that provides full cycle Human Resources support and operational leadership to our APAC team. The role is critical in creating and executing our people initiatives, providing great employee support, driving HR functional excellence and process development and scaling the People & Experience team to the Australia office.

ADDITIONAL REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Performance Management experience: Manage 360 peer reviews process, employee feedback and work to find solutions with performance issues
• General understanding and experience with compensation, benefits and payroll
• Experience managing onboarding process, departures, terminations and restructuring

DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 7-10 years of HR working experience
• Previous experience in a fast paced, tech start-up (ideally advertising)
• Previous experience with developing employee retention and engagement initiatives, in line with company culture and values
• Previous operational experience working with project management, finance.
• Enjoys innovation and change
• Driven to seek novel and agile solutions to challenges
• Have experience working with payroll outsourcing vendor
• A flexible and collaborative team member with enormous emotional intelligence
• Approachable with high integrity
• Comfortable with fast paced, start-up culture
• Can hit the ground running

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT VAYNERMEDIA

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!
Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you

• Lead heart first, care deeply about both people and outcomes
• Put your relationships at the forefront of everything you do
• Have a strong interest and ability in HR analytics and leveraging data to inform decisions
• No task is too small for you to tackle, and you take a team approach to anything thrown at you
• Genuine belief in bringing your full self to what you do every day, see “work” as a calling and a passion
• Have the ability to work independently in a dynamic, fast paced environment
• Are comfortable facilitating executives, coming to the table with a point of view and simultaneously advocating and advising more junior talent
• Are a creative self-starter who prides themselves on their grit and resourcefulness
• Exercise sound judgment and discretion
• Are a team player with a positive attitude and strong interpersonal skills
• Are detail oriented with excellent organizational, prioritization and multitasking skills
• Are an analytical problem solver with experience and proven accomplishments in a global highly matrix org
• Are adept and comfortable managing through frequent change, and are a ninja in your stakeholder management
• Have a desire to take ownership and accountability for work and manage projects through execution
• 100% knowledgeable of Australia Labor Laws