People & Culture Manager

Not Your Average HR Role – People & Culture Manager

Are you ready to ditch the traditional "policy police" HR role and be a culture catalyst instead? We're looking for a People & Culture Manager who's equal parts employee champion, recruiter, strategist, problem-solver, and organized operator. This isn't your sleepy corporate HR gig — it's an opportunity to help shape an energetic, high-growth firm with strong core values (Doing Good by Doing Right!) while ensuring our people processes, compliance, employee experience, and HR strategy run smoothly and effectively.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing employee engagement, recruiting, compliance, HR strategy, and day-to-day people operations in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. You'll have broad exposure across all areas of HR while partnering closely with leadership and employees throughout the firm.

What You'll Rock At:

• Drive our people-first culture while supporting day-to-day HR operations including recruiting, employee relations, compliance, payroll coordination, benefits administration, employee engagement, leave management, and professional development initiatives.
• Partner with leadership to support HR strategy, employee engagement initiatives, retention efforts, organizational effectiveness, and workforce planning.
• Serve as a trusted partner to managers and leadership by providing guidance on employee relations, performance management, coaching, conflict resolution, and people-related decision-making.
• Manage full-cycle recruiting activities for open positions, including sourcing, candidate communication, interview coordination, onboarding support, and partnering with hiring managers to attract top talent and create strong candidate experience.
• Champion professional growth and employee development initiatives in partnership with our professional development team.
• Help ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and HR best practices across a multi-state workforce.
• Own employee onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring a smooth and positive employee experience while maintaining accurate documentation and compliance.
• Maintain HR records, documentation, reporting, and employment-related processes with strong attention to detail and confidentiality.
• Collaborate closely with leadership and employees across the firm to support organizational needs, employee experience initiatives, and overall employee success.
• Bring positive energy, adaptability, accountability, and a team-first mindset to everything you do.

You're Our Person If:

• You have 3+ years of progressive HR, people operations, recruiting, or related experience in a professional environment with exposure to employee relations, recruiting, payroll coordination, benefits administration, compliance, or HR operations.
• You have a Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• You enjoy working in a hands-on role with a wide variety of responsibilities and shifting priorities.
• You're highly organized and able to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and competing priorities simultaneously.
• You have strong interpersonal and communication skills and are comfortable interacting with employees and leadership at all levels of the organization.
• You approach sensitive situations with professionalism, discretion, empathy, and sound judgment.
• You have a strong understanding of employment law and HR best practices and a desire to continue learning and growing professionally.
• You're comfortable using technology and learning new systems; experience with ATS, payroll, or HR systems is required. Experience with JazzHR and isolved is a plus.
• Experience supporting both exempt and non-exempt employees is preferred.
• Experience working with multi-state employee populations is a plus.
• Your SHRM-CP/SCP certification is a nice-to-have, but your people skills are a must-have.
• You've mastered the art of HRIS and payroll systems (tech is your friend!)
• Your energy is contagious and your growth mindset is unstoppable.
• You embody our core values of Doing Good by Doing Right™.

The Fine Print:

• Full-time position based in our Pittsburgh office.
• Some travel to our CT and NY offices (pack your bags occasionally!)
• Standard business hours with some flexibility for special events.
• Competitive benefits package (because an HR Manager should have great people benefits!)
• Opportunity for continued growth and expanded responsibilities as the team evolves.

Ready to help us create an exceptional employee experience while keeping our people operations running smoothly? We'd love to meet you.

Benefits:

Financial Benefits

• 401k Contributions: Discretionary match contribution of 5%, with the Firm matching 100% of the first 3% of the employee's contribution and 50% of the employee's next 2% of contribution of the employee's annual compensation.
• Charitable Donations: The Chaffin Luhana Foundation makes an annual donation to the charity of your choice.

Medical Benefits

• Healthcare Insurance: $600 per employee or family towards their monthly health premium. If your premium is less than $600, you will be responsible for only the first $1.
• Dental Insurance: Full coverage towards an employee's dental premium, less than $1 monthly. You will only pay $12 a year for your dental plan.
• Health Reimbursement Account (HRA): Contribute up to $1,000 pre-tax towards your annual medical deductible.
• Family / Dependent Care: You can contribute up to $7,500 pre-tax Dependent Care (DCR).
• Flex Spending Account: Contribute up to $1,000 pre-tax towards your medical Flex Spending Account (FSA).

Commuter Benefits

• Tax-free Transit Commute: You can contribute up to $340 per month pre-tax towards your transit ticket (TRN).
• Discounted Parking: You can contribute up to $340 per month pre-tax towards a pay-for-parking plan (PKG).

Time Off to Recharge and Renew

• Time Off: 15 paid time off (PTO) days / 20 PTO days after 3 years with the Firm.
• Sick Days: 3 sick days per year.
• Celebrate the Holidays: Office closed for 10 public holidays.
• Office Closure: Office is typically closed between Christmas and New Year's Day.

Culture and Development of Team

• Casual Dress: Enjoy our business casual dress code.
• Enhance Your Skills: Up to $500 annually for continued education/training.
• Learn How You're Wired: Our employees take a Kolbe Assessment so they can learn their instinctive method of operation. Identify the ways that you and the team you work with are the most productive.
• Time Management: Time Management Luncheons with senior management team to take your projects, team, and organization to the next level.
• Free Workouts: Free access to GreenTree SportsPlex for Pittsburgh office.

Recognition at the Firm

• Value Team Members: Bonusly points for a peer-to-peer recognition system. You give and receive points that you can redeem for gift cards, trips, dinners, etc.
• Eat, Drink & Be Merry: Free team lunches and happy hours.
• Annual Bonus: Year-end discretionary bonus.
• Annual Firm Outing: Yearly firm outing for all of our employees to meet up and have fun.

Note:

This job description is not an exclusive or exhaustive list of all job functions an employee in this position may be asked to perform. Duties, responsibilities, and requirements can be added, changed, or reduced by management to meet the business needs of the company.

Chaffin Luhana LLP does not discriminate based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities.

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Salary Range: $70K to $75K