HR Operations & Compliance Manager

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$120K/yr – $140K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the HR operations backbone across regions: scale workflows, automate processes with AI, and maintain data integrity in a compliant, auditable HRIS-driven system.

  • Operations & Compliance: Design scalable HR processes and reporting to support multi-region hubs.
  • Automation & AI: Identify automation opportunities and drive value realization across the People Success team.
  • HRIS & Data Governance: Ensure clean data, governance, and alignment with legal requirements across geographies.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the design and execution of scalable HR workflows, policies, and reporting structures across regional hubs.
  • Project-manage key People programs along the employee lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding ensuring smooth and consistent delivery.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, or improve existing HR processes leveraging AI technologies and bring recommendations to the team and partner to implement.
  • Drive AI adoption across the People Success team ensuring progress against KPIs and value realization of our investments to streamline, automate and build for scale.
  • Support compliance with local, state, and international employment laws (including GDPR and multi-country labor codes) under the guidance of the VP and Legal.
  • Assist in maintaining audit-ready documentation, controls, and process records across People Operations.
  • Monitor regulatory changes and flag compliance risks to the appropriate stakeholders.
  • Administer HR information systems to maintain accurate employee data across onboarding, changes, and offboarding workflows globally.
  • Ensure clean data governance practices so People data is reliable and up to date.
  • Support HRIS improvement initiatives and assist in implementation projects as needed.

Requirements

  • 4–6 years of experience in HR Operations, People Operations, or a related HR generalist role.
  • Hands-on experience with HRIS platforms (e.g., Workday, ADP, BambooHR) and HR data management.
  • Solid understanding of employment law fundamentals and compliance requirements across multiple geographies.
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
  • Proven ability to execute on projects independently and follow through with minimal direction.
  • Collaborative, team-oriented working style with strong communication skills.
  • Self-starter with a builder mindset, comfortable working in an environment where processes are still being built and refined.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with workflow automation tools or process improvement methodologies.
  • Exposure to global HR operations across multiple regions or time zones.
  • Background in data reporting or People analytics.

Benefits

  • We offer a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, 401(k), EAP, parental leave, unlimited vacation, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available will vary depending on the state, start date, and employment type.
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Nexxen

Nexxen empowers advertisers, agencies, publishers and broadcasters around the world to utilize data and advanced TV in the ways that are most meaningful to them. Our flexible and unified technology stack comprises a demand-side platform (“DSP”) and supply-side platform (“SSP”), with the Nexxen Data Platform at its core. With streaming in our DNA, Nexxen’s robust capabilities span discovery, planning, activation, monetization, measurement and optimization – available individually or in combination – all designed to enable our partners to reach their goals, no matter how far-reaching or hyper niche they may be. Nexxen is headquartered in Israel and maintains offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia-Pacific, and is traded on NASDAQ (NEXN).

Founded in 2007
New York, New York, USA
820 employees (72 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
53.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.7%
Direct
43.2%
Referral
9%
Social
3.8%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~823

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
56 (7% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
$35M
Corporate Round, 7 months ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2025
    Corporate Round • $35M

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