Director of Human Resources

KLR Executive Search Group is proud to partner with our client in the search for a Director of Human Resources. Our client is a dynamic and rapidly growing mid-sized, full-service law firm recognized for providing sophisticated legal counsel, responsive service, and practical solutions to complex business challenges. The firm serves clients across a broad range of industries, including real estate, technology, private equity, renewable energy, construction, hospitality, healthcare, and manufacturing.

Position Overview:

Reporting to the Executive Leadership Team, the Director of Human Resources will provide strategic leadership and operational oversight across all aspects of the firm's human resources function. This individual will balance long-term workforce strategy with hands-on execution, serving as a trusted advisor to firm leadership while ensuring the organization continues to attract, develop, engage, and retain exceptional talent. The Director will play an important role in supporting the firm's continued growth, strengthening its culture, and building scalable people practices across the organization.

Key Responsibilities :

• Partner with executive leadership to align people strategies, workforce planning, and organizational priorities with the company’s overall growth objectives.
• Advise leaders on organizational structure, talent deployment, succession planning, team effectiveness, and leadership development.
• Oversee the full employee lifecycle, including talent acquisition, onboarding, development, engagement, performance management, retention, and employee relations.
• Foster a high-performing workplace culture that promotes accountability, collaboration, inclusion, recognition, professional growth, and alignment with company values.
• Lead core people operations, including compensation, benefits, payroll coordination, learning and development, HR systems, policies, and compliance.
• Ensure employment practices comply with applicable federal, state, and local regulations across all jurisdictions in which the organization operates.
• Partner with Finance on headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, compensation programs, market benchmarking, incentive plans, and workforce investment decisions.
• Evaluate and improve HR processes, technology, reporting, vendor relationships, and workforce metrics to create scalable infrastructure and support informed business decisions.

Qualifications :

• 10+ years of progressive HR leadership experience within a growing, multi-location organization, including experience operating across multiple states and jurisdictions.
• Broad expertise across employee relations, talent acquisition, leadership development, compensation, benefits, compliance, workforce planning, and HR operations.
• Demonstrated success developing and implementing people strategies that support business growth, organizational effectiveness, and broader business objectives.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills, with a collaborative, approachable leadership style and high emotional intelligence.
• Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, leveraging workforce data and metrics to inform decisions, and integrating people and culture through periods of growth; prior law firm HR experience is preferred.