Fractional HRBP

About this role

Talent Community Notice

This position is part of livingHR's talent community. By applying, you are expressing interest in joining our network of trusted professionals who partner with us on a contract basis when client project needs arise. This is not an immediate or guaranteed opening. Engagements are project-based, and livingHR will reach out when an opportunity aligns with your experience, availability, and location.

Position Details

Location: Remote / Hybrid — California-based candidates preferred; Bay Area or Silicon Valley proximity to supported clients is a plus but not required

Type: Contract / Fractional

Work Model: Remote-first (Work from Where it Makes Sense), with periodic on-site presence at California portfolio company locations as engagements require

Compensation: Commensurate with experience; scoped per engagement

Duration: Project-based; engagement length and hours vary by client need

Who We Are

livingHR is The Work Agency™, a national boutique HR advisory and consulting firm built to make work better. We partner with organizations to deliver human-centric, future-of-work-ready HR managed services, professional services, and products. We believe in taking exceptional care of our people so they can deliver exceptional outcomes for clients, partners, and communities.

Position Overview

We are building our bench of fractional HR Business Partners with deep California employment law expertise to support portfolio companies operating in California within our client's growing, multi-brand, multi-location organization. This organization owns and operates businesses across 40 states and completes approximately 10–15 acquisitions per year; the California-based (or California-operating) businesses in the portfolio need an HRBP who can serve as the trusted, on-the-ground HR point of contact — advising local business leaders and the corporate Business Operations leader on California-specific employee relations, compliance, and post-integration HRIS and payroll training, while building feedback channels that surface field-level insight back to the corporate HR team. Given the pace of acquisition activity, this HRBP will regularly onboard newly integrated California entities and guide them from integration into stable, steady-state operations.

Responsibilities

Partner Communications & Operational Relationship Management

● Serve as the primary HR point of contact for assigned California-based portfolio companies, working alongside local managers and the corporate BizOps leader as an extension of their leadership team

● Represent corporate HR to portfolio company managers and employees post-integration — fielding questions, routing issues, and maintaining a visible, trusted presence in the field

● Partner with BizOps leaders to implement organizational changes, including operating model shifts, role redesigns, and cultural interventions, ensuring they land smoothly with managers and employees

● Keep corporate HR leadership informed on field conditions, emerging issues, and portfolio company-level developments across the assigned California portfolio

California Employee Relations & Compliance

● Manage employee relations matters end-to-end — investigations, conflict resolution, disciplinary actions, and corrective action — in accordance with California-specific requirements across distributed locations

● Own resolution of California compliance issues flagged by corporate HR or surfaced through HRIS monitoring, including wage and hour, meal and rest break, and PAGA exposure, working with portfolio company leadership to remediate

● Apply working knowledge of CFRA, FEHA, Cal/OSHA, California pay transparency requirements (SB 1162), final pay timing rules, and relevant local ordinances (e.g., San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other municipal requirements), with the judgment to know when to escalate to legal versus resolve in the field

● Participate in cross-functional task forces addressing recurring or systemic California compliance issues

● Ensure consistent application of HR policies and practices across assigned California portfolio companies, adapted as needed for state-specific requirements

Training, Learning & HRIS Systems Support

● Deliver HRIS training and rollout communications to portfolio company managers and employees for new modules, SOPs, and system process changes

● Provide ongoing user support and troubleshooting at the portfolio company level; escalate system or configuration issues to the appropriate corporate resource

● Serve as the primary feedback channel on gaps in SOPs, training materials, or system configuration uncovered through field use, with particular attention to California-specific policy language

Employee Experience & Feedback Channels

● Build structured feedback channels with portfolio company employees to surface what is and isn't working at the ground level

● Bring field-level patterns and signals back to the broader HR team to drive improvements to SOPs, training, and HR services

● Identify and escalate workplace culture or operational issues that warrant corporate HR attention

● Analyze feedback data to spot trends and develop actionable recommendations that improve the overall employee experience

Talent Strategy & Workforce Planning

● Support annual talent planning for California portfolio companies — identifying critical roles to add, retention risks, high-performer development opportunities, and management bench strength against each business's operating plan

● Support seasonal workforce planning — sizing W-2 and 1099 hiring needs for peak cycles and ensuring recruiting capacity is in place, with attention to California-specific worker classification rules

● Contribute to succession and key-person risk plans for GMs, lead coaches, and other roles where founder or single-person dependency creates business risk

● Flag compensation drift from California market benchmarks and recommend org structure adjustments as portfoli

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