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Art of Problem Solving

Human Resources Generalist

🇺🇸 Hybrid - San Diego, CA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $90K - $110K

💻 Human Resources

🗓️ August 7th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Art of Problem Solving is hiring a Human Resources Generalist to manage HR operations and payroll support for employees and leadership at their San Diego headquarters and nationwide. The role involves overseeing the employee lifecycle, executing HRIS changes, supporting compliance and policy initiatives, and improving HR operational efficiency.

Highlights
  • Manage employee lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding, supporting multiple locations.
  • Process HRIS changes including bonuses, commissions, and employment adjustments.
  • Serve as primary contact for employee questions about onboarding, benefits, HRIS, leaves, and training.
  • Design and implement policies, standard operating procedures, and compliance audits.
  • Assist with benefits administration in partnership with Benefits + Compliance Manager.
  • Create custom reports on headcount and maintain data accuracy in HRIS.
  • Maintain employee records and conduct regular data quality reviews and audits.
  • Required skills include HRIS experience, knowledge of multi-state employment laws, and advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency.
  • Must have a bachelor’s degree and at least 3 years of HR Generalist experience in a high-growth environment.
  • Compensation ranges from $90,000 to $110,000 annually with a 6% year-end bonus and a $1,000 referral bonus.

Human Resources Generalist Full Description

As an HR Generalist, you will play an integral role in delivering relevant and meaningful HR Operations and Payroll support to AoPS employees and leadership in our San Diego HQ office and across the nationwide organization. This role will own daily HR operations procedures, support the execution of a variety of HR & payroll initiatives, and drive continuous process improvement & operational efficiency. This role will help to ensure our HR Operations department can execute the strategies needed to grow and strengthen the organization.

The HR Generalist will:
  • Manage the employee lifecycle and experience from onboarding through offboarding, independently covering other locations as needed; support with large-scale initiatives affecting the employee experience, such as office moves, as needed
  • Own processing of HRIS changes, including but not limited to bonuses and commissions, and any other employment-related changes or adjustments
  • Serve as primary point of contact for all employees for questions regarding onboarding, offboarding, benefits, HRIS, training, internal mobility, leaves of absence, and any other related HR operations topics
  • Support the design & implementation of policies, SOPs, and audits to ensure all individuals and processes are constantly in compliance with applicable regulations; leverage expertise with multi-state employment laws to make recommendations to the HR Leadership team on HR operations & policy matters
  • Assist as needed with benefits-related tasks; partner with the Benefits + Compliance Manager as needed to ensure effective administration of key processes
  • Build custom reports for leadership related to headcount, and other business needs; regularly monitor data cleanliness in HRIS platform, flagging and correcting system issues in real time to ensure consistently clean data
  • Manage and maintain employee records/personnel files from onboarding to termination, processing actions in the HRIS platform and overseeing the employee change process from approvals to data entry; complete regular data quality reviews and audits to help drive process improvements

The ideal candidate has:
  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field
  • Minimum 3 years experience in an HR Generalist role in a high-growth environment
  • Minimum 1 year demonstrated HRIS experience required
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience navigating employment law, including experience working with outside counsel on various employment-related topics
  • Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including advanced formulas and pivot tables
  • High emotional and social intelligence with experience fostering positive, strong relationships with diverse groups of people; cognizance of how to account for diversity, equity, and inclusion when making HR Operations and Payroll recommendations

Why Join AoPS:
This is a hybrid full-time position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. Some travel may be required. The full salary range for this position is 90k-110k with a 6% year-end bonus. Here are some things you can look forward to:
  • Impact: Play an integral role in delivering relevant and meaningful HR Operations and Payroll support to AoPS employees and leadership in our San Diego HQ office and across the nationwide organization while driving continuous process improvement & operational efficiency
  • Flexibility: Casual work environment with a hybrid work week and flexible scheduling
  • Benefits: Multiple options for Medical, Dental and Vision plans
  • Future Planning: 401K with company match
  • Quality of Life: PTO Plan and supportive leadership that gives you the work-life balance you deserve
  • Ease of Transition: Relocation bonus (if currently located outside of San Diego)

Background Check:
Please note that employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

Work Authorization:
Please note that in order to be considered for this position you must be legally authorized to work in the US. We are unable to offer sponsorship, including STEM-OPT and H-1B.

About AoPS:
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country's top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.