• Personally own and execute the full employee lifecycle across the organization, including hiring coordination, offer letters, onboarding, training logistics, offboarding, terminations, severance processes, and exit interviews. • Drive employee engagement, recognition, and culture initiatives from planning through execution, with clear budget ownership. • Run employee surveys, including employee NPS, and translate results into clear insights and recommendations for leadership. • Act as the internal point person for employment law and compliance matters, including ADA accommodations, discrimination policies, and regulatory changes. • Execute performance management programs, including annual reviews, calibration cycles, employee feedback, and ongoing performance documentation. • Personally manage leave administration across all applicable programs, ensuring accurate tracking, documentation, and coordination with payroll and benefits providers. • Partner closely with leadership on salary negotiations, compensation reviews, salary banding, and ongoing compensation tracking, with hands-on execution and follow-through. • Run semi-monthly payroll end to end with full accountability for accuracy, timeliness, and compliance, including time tracking, PTO, overtime, and commissions. • Own and operate HR and people systems, including payroll, benefits platforms, time tracking, and access controls. • Personally manage employee IT operations, including new hire computer provisioning and retrieval.