NYC: Talent Acquisition & HR Generalist

  Build the Team Behind One of the Fastest Growing Pilates Brands

At New York Pilates, we're building more than studios; we're building one of the fastest-growing premium fitness brands in the country.

We're looking for an exceptional Talent Acquisition & HR Generalist to own the first stage of the employee lifecycle across our New York City and Hamptons studios. You'll build strong talent pipelines, lead recruiting, coordinate onboarding, and help create a consistent, thoughtful experience for every new team member. You can expect to spend 60% of your time managing talent acquisition and full-cycle recruiting, while the other 40% will support Human Resources and people operations.

If you're highly organized, relationship-driven, proactive, and excited to build something special, we'd love to meet you.

Who You Are

You love building relationships and proactively thinking about where the next great hire could come from, while owning the full hiring journey from identifying a need through recruiting, selection, and onboarding. You thrive in the field, building trust with studio teams, managers, and candidates, and bring strong organization, judgment, and adaptability to a fast-paced, growing business while always looking for ways to improve the recruiting experience.

Before You Apply

This role is probably a great fit if you are excited to own these key responsibilities:

Recruiting & Hiring

• Own the recruiting process for pilates instructors, front of house, and studio management roles across New York City and the Hamptons.
• Create, post, maintain, and refresh job postings across relevant platforms.
• Promote open roles through appropriate recruiting channels, community networks, referrals, and local outreach.
• Build and maintain warm candidate pipelines of qualified leads through proactive sourcing, networking, referrals, community outreach, and consistent follow-up, with a focus on Pilates instructors, studio teams, and management roles.
• Keep candidates engaged throughout the recruiting process and maintain relationships with strong potential hires for current and future opportunities.
• Screen candidates, coordinate interviews, and support hiring managers through the selection process.
• Support offer process coordination and ensure smooth handoff from candidate to new hire.
• Coordinate onboarding with HR, payroll, Finance, benefits partners, and studio leadership to ensure new hires are properly set up and ready for their first day.
• Ensure new hires are entered accurately into HRIS, payroll, scheduling, and other required systems.
• Represent New York Pilates as a premium consumer brand throughout the candidate experience, ensuring communication is warm, professional, timely, and reflective of the company’s culture and standards.

Staffing Levels & Workforce Planning

• Partner with studio leadership and ownership to understand staffing needs, hiring priorities, and role requirements. 
• Identify current and upcoming hiring gaps by studio, role, and season.
• Proactively plan for staffing needs tied to seasonality, turnover, class demand, studio growth, and Hamptons operations.
• Maintain visibility into open roles, hiring progress, and recruiting priorities.

Onboarding & New Hire Experience

• Own and coordinate the onboarding experience for new hires from offer acceptance through first day of work.
• Ensure new hires receive clear communication, accurate paperwork, and a welcoming introduction to New York Pilates.
• Coordinate onboarding steps with studio leaders, operations, payroll, HR, and other stakeholders as needed.
• Help ensure new employees are set up in the appropriate systems and connected with the right training, schedule, and point of contact.
• Support a consistent and positive first-day and first-week experience across locations.
• Track onboarding completion and ensure compliance requirements are met.

Employee Lifecycle Administration

• Serve as a trusted point of contact for employee questions and HR requests, managing the HR inbox, ensuring timely follow-through, and handling sensitive information with confidentiality and sound judgment.
• Partner with internal leaders and external HR, compliance, payroll, benefits, and 401(k) partners to ensure employee matters, policies, and processes are handled accurately, efficiently, and in compliance with applicable requirements.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for ADP, partnering with payroll providers and Finance on payroll processing, employee changes, payroll questions, and accurate coding.
• Manage employee lifecycle administration, including new hire documentation, status changes, promotions, transfers, offboarding, and maintaining accurate and organized employee records and HRIS data.
• Support and improve HR processes, workflows, templates, and SOPs, while monitoring key talent and employee experience metrics including turnover, onboarding results, and time-to-hire to drive continuous improvement in recruiting, onboarding, and retention.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on key talent acquisition and employee experience metrics, including turnover rates, onboarding survey results, and time-to-hire data, using insights to drive continuous improvement in recruitment effectiveness, new hire integration, and employee retention.
• Own and coordinate performance management and review cycles, partnering with studio leaders to ensure timely reviews, clear expectations, consistent feedback, documentation, and follow-through across teams.
• Support select HR administrative events tied to the early employee lifecycle, including new hire documentation, employee status updates, role changes, transfers, and other basic people operations needs.
• Partner with HR/payroll support to ensure employee data and documentation are complete, accurate, and timely.
• Maintain organized records related to recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and employee transitions.
• Assist with ongoing process improvements, templates, workflows, and SOPs related to hiring and onboarding.

Community & Studio Partnership

• Serve as an active and visible member of the New York Pilates community.
• Build strong relationships with studio teams, managers, instructors, and operational leaders.
• Represent the brand and culture throughout the candidate and new hire experience.
• Help create a warm, professional, and consistent experience that reflects the energy and standards of the business.
• Spend time in studios to understand team dynamics, hiring needs, and the day-to-day employee experience.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary: $80,000–$90,000 annual salary 

Location: Hybrid  (New York City and Hamptons)

Benefits:  

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off
• 401(k)
• Complimentary New York Pilates membership
• Employee merchandise discount

Ready to Apply?

We're looking for someone who wants to build great teams, create an exceptional employee experience, and play a meaningful role in the growth of New York Pilates.

If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.