Part Time Human Resources Generalist

Part Time HR Generalist & Client Partner

The Pabulum Group is looking for an experienced HR Generalist and Client Partner who wants a long term, dedicated part time career. You will independently own HR operations for several clients, advise leaders and employees, execute the work and contribute to the consulting firm behind every client relationship. Part time work fits your life, and you still want to do exceptional work you are proud of.

Compensation and Work Arrangement

• Salaried, part time W2 employment with 20 to 30 guaranteed hours per week.
• Base salary starts around $36,000 for 20 hours. A 25 or 30 hour commitment carries a higher salary, with the final offer based on the agreed schedule and relevant experience.
• Primarily remote work with variable onsite needs throughout Greater Indianapolis and surrounding areas.
• Substantial scheduling flexibility and autonomy, with consistent availability during the traditional workday.
• Flexible paid time off used as needed while maintaining client coverage.
• Profit sharing tied to retained business and additional compensation for clients you meaningfully help bring into TPG.
• Exclusive HR consulting employment. You may not maintain outside HR clients.

What You Bring

• Five or more years of broad, hands on HR generalist experience across employee relations, performance management, payroll, benefits, leave, compliance, onboarding, terminations, recruiting and HR systems.
• Meaningful multi state exposure and the business judgment to make practical people decisions.
• Exceptional organization and precise schedule management across multiple clients, projects, deadlines and shifting priorities.
• Strong communication, professional boundaries, discretion and credibility with different personalities at every level of a business.
• Confidence without ego. You know your limits, think independently and bring context, research and a point of view when an issue calls for escalation or strategy with the team.
• Curiosity, resourcefulness and the ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly.
• Practical AI fluency is required. You use AI within TPG’s approved tools, standards and safeguards, with sound data protection, human review and controls. Experience evaluating and implementing AI tools, workflows or automations with TPG leadership is strongly preferred.
• Residence in Greater Indianapolis, reliable transportation, a predictable schedule and the ability to work onsite as needed.

Consulting experience is not required. We can teach portfolio management. SHRM or HRCI certification is preferred, but experience and judgment matter more. No specific degree is required with equivalent experience.

What You Will Own

Your portfolio will typically include two to five clients and fit your agreed schedule. Individual client engagements usually require 4 to 10 hours per week. You may lead some independently and partner with other TPG consultants on others.

• Serve as the primary HR contact and trusted thought partner, guiding performance, employee relations, difficult conversations, terminations and business oriented people decisions.
• Administer payroll, resolve benefits questions, coordinate enrollment and manage leave, accommodations and related communication.
• Manage the employee lifecycle, including recruiting, offers, onboarding, orientation, performance reviews, surveys, exit interviews, offboarding, compensation, reward and recognition and manager resources.
• Work effectively in any client HRIS, clean up compliance, records, policies and processes and build practical tools that work.
• Manage client commitments, projects, deadlines, KPIs and changing priorities.
• Occasionally work onsite throughout Greater Indianapolis and surrounding areas as needed.

The exact mix will change. That is the point. We want someone who genuinely loves being a generalist.

How We Work

Predictability matters. You may arrange your schedule around school pickup, appointments and an actual life, but your hours must be consistent and primarily within our 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET workday. You must be available each business day, monitor communication and respond according to urgency. Most client messages require a same day response, and nothing should go unacknowledged beyond one business day.

No one will be looking over your shoulder. We trust you to understand your commitments, execute well, deliver on time and within scope and communicate early when something changes.

• Build authentic, trusted relationships while exercising discretion, maintaining appropriate professional boundaries and using sound judgment about what belongs in the client workplace.
• Represent TPG in every interaction. Be warm and human without becoming the main character in the client’s workplace.
• Anticipate needs, ask good questions, adjust when priorities shift and respond to challenges with perspective and constructive solutions. Go above and beyond without quietly making the work unprofitable.

You will report to TPG’s Director of Client Success, maintain a direct connection to the Visionary and Integrator for strategic and operational leadership and collaborate with the broader team.

Your Responsibility to TPG

Clients will take up most of your week, but they are not your only responsibility. You will contribute to the health, growth and operation of the firm.

• Come prepared to weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual TPG meetings with useful updates, ideas and decisions.
• Keep client projects, tasks, deadlines, outcomes and initiatives current in our project management system so the team can see what is moving, what needs attention and where support would help.
• Contribute to company priorities and support other consultants and client projects when needed.
• Help TPG leadership evaluate responsible AI opportunities and risks, pilot useful tools and turn what works into repeatable workflows and sensible safeguards.
• Manage your calendar with precision and communicate early when something changes, stalls or puts scope, timing or profitability at risk.

This Probably Is Not Your Job If

• You are building an HR consulting practice, want another source of projects or need a temporary bridge until a full time job appears.
• Your next move must lead directly to a traditional Director of HR role. This position is for an experienced generalist who loves broad, hands on work and wants a long term career serving varied clients.
• You want to advise but believe payroll, benefits administration or onboarding are beneath you.
• You need someone else to identify every task and tell you what to do next.
• You consistently have so much chaos surrounding you that other people must absorb it.

What Success Looks Like

Within 90 days, you will independently own your clients with support from the TPG team. Your communication, deliverables, onsite commitments, project records and follow through will have a reliable rhythm, and the team will know what is next and where support is needed.

Success means:

• Strong client trust, achievement of client and company KPIs and successful renewals.
• Retained business and appropriate opportunities to deepen TPG’s work.
• Ideas and execution that advance our strategy and growth.
• A durable career within the TPG ecosystem.

About The Pabulum Group

For more than two decades, TPG has helped small and growing companies across the US build people operations that are stable, compliant, scalable and still sound like them. Our clients span industries, generally employ 10 to 500 people and engage us as their entire HR department, added capacity or specialized expertise across HR strategy, generalist operations, talent acquisition and organizational health.

Our nationwide team includes leaders, trusted advisors, specialists and excellent executors across every HR specialty. Our ecosystem also includes sister company reddeHR, which expands the payroll, benefits administration, HR administration and HRIS expertise available to our clients. That breadth lets us meet clients where they are and execute what they need. We are practical, curious, honest and invested in the businesses and people we serve. We have an established way of working, a team behind every client relationship and a complete allergy to HR theater, unnecessary bureaucracy and people who believe the title matters more than the work.