Alida is looking for a hands-on HR Manager to help shape and run a modern, technology-enabled HR function. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in building efficient systems, leveraging automation, operating as a high-impact team member, and managing two team members - a Payroll/Benefits specialist, and a Recruiter. You’ll take ownership of day-to-day people operations while streamlining a scalable approach powered by AI-powered technology/systems and/or agents.
Alida is in the midst of an exciting AI transformation and evolution making this a unique opportunity to influence how HR best supports a highly agentic organization going forward.
What You’ll Own and/or Support:
HR Administration across the employee lifecycle to include:
- Onboarding
- Offboarding
- Payroll
- Benefits
- Compliance
- AI Technologies
- AI Enablement
- Optimization and management of HR systems that align and support Alida’s agentic objectives
- Designing and/or implementing automated workflows to reduce manual work
- Acting as the primary point of contact for employee support and HR operations
- Supporting hiring coordination and foundational talent processes, adjusting to the workforce and business needs as the company evolves.
- Managing vendor relationships across HR, payroll, and benefits
- Ensuring compliance with all necessary employment standards where applicable and within all geographies such as Canada, US, EMEA, and the Philippines that Alida operates
What Makes This Role Different:
Reporting into Finance, you will lead a lean, high-impact HR function. You’ll work with modern AI-based tools and automation rather than traditional HR processes. You’ll have the opportunity to enhance and integrate systems from the ground up. You’ll help shape what a tech-enabled HR function looks like in practice.
This role is a strong fit for someone who:
- Enjoys building and optimizing systems more than maintaining legacy processes
- Is comfortable working independently and owning outcomes end to end
- Has experience with HRIS, ATS, and related or adjacent platforms
- Is curious about automation, AI, and new ways of working with AI Agents
- Thrives in environments that are evolving and not yet fully defined
Who this role is not a strong fit for:
- Someone looking to join a large HR team with specialized roles
- Someone who prefers highly structured, fully built out environments
- Someone who wants to focus primarily on strategic HRBP work without hands on operational and administrative ownership
Why Join:
- Opportunity to own and manage a lean, AI-forward HR operating model
- High autonomy and visibility within the organization
- Exposure to systems, automation, and scalable operations
- Ability to make a tangible impact in a lean, evolving company.
Additional details:
- The typical salary range for this role in Canada is $125,000-135,000 CAD depending on experience.
- We are looking for candidates based in either Toronto or Vancouver, we work on a hybrid basis
The Good Stuff:
+ Amazing growth and learning opportunities with a fast-growing Canadian SaaS company that is a world leader in its industry
+ Best-in-class company paid benefits for you and your family - offering medical, dental, vision, RRSP matching in Canada, a 401K in the US, and more.
+ Unlimited Vacation: Yep, it’s true. Take vacation when you want it, how you want it. Designed to better fit your evolving needs.
+ Summer Fridays: Fridays are a day off during July and August. To help provide better balance in the summer months focusing on employee wellness.
+ Recognized as one of the Best Workplaces™ in British Columbia for 2024 by Great Place to Work
+ Recognized in 2023 as one of the Best Workplaces for Women®
+ Recognized as a Top Employer by British Columbia's Top Employers 2023
About Alida
Alida believes in a world where customers are respected as the ultimate source of truth. Because knowing the whole truth about your customers can help companies make better decisions and drive long term loyalty and growth.
That’s why Alida helps innovative brands create highly engaged research communities to gather feedback that empowers better customer experiences and product innovation.
Leading companies like HBOMax, Adobe, Warner Bros. Discovery, Twitch and lululemon depend on Alida’s community-centered research platform to deliver fast and reliable customer feedback at scale so they can build better products, refine user experiences and test marketing campaigns.
Learn more at www.alida.com.
We can’t wait to meet you!
We understand that applying for a new position takes effort and want to thank you in advance for taking the time to introduce yourself.
At Alida, we’re dedicated to fostering an environment where our employees feel heard, valued and included.
We believe that a diverse team is a core pillar in building better products and services for our global customers and we strongly encourage applications from all people regardless of race, religion, gender, age, disability status or sexual orientation. Even if you don't meet every single one of the stated requirements but you are excited about this opportunity, we'd love to hear from you anyway. Our Talent Acquisition team will review your application for this role, and others we may have open now or in the future.
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Vacancy Status: This posting is for an existing vacancy that we are actively seeking to fill
Artificial Intelligence Disclosure: Our recruitment process is human-led. While our Applicant Tracking System (ATS) includes an AI-enabled "talent match" feature to help compare applications against job requirements, this tool is not used as a decision making factor and it is not used to rank candidates by suitability. All applications are personally reviewed by our recruitment team, and all decisions regarding interview selection and hiring are made solely by human employees.
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