Job Details
Role Type: Full-Time
Location: Preference for EST or CST, but is fully remote (based anywhere in the United States)
Reports to: VP of People
Compensation: $65k - $75K + Annual Bonus + Equity
About this role
Parallel is seeking a full-time HR specialist. In this role, you’ll be supporting the People Team by driving operational aspects of HR such as benefits administration, compliance support, managing the HR inbox, and assisting with payroll.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to:
- Make an impact: you are motivated by a mission-driven culture
- Join a fast-growing startup: you love to solve ambiguous problems that don’t have a clear solution
- Touch all aspects of HR: you want to grow your experience and own some functionalities
- Be part of a passionate, collaborative culture: you want to work hands-on with your team and cross-functional partners to quickly find solutions and take action
What you’ll do:
- Own benefits administration: manage Ease, audit monthly statements, align our benefits platform with our HRIS data, own system integrations, and support the VP of People with Open Enrollment
- Assist with payroll administration: manage employment tax applications, update time off requests and accruals, send payroll reports to our 401k vendor, and support the VP of People with payroll execution
- Act as first point of contact for employees in need of HR support: own HR inbox and work with our operations team to answer HR tickets, escalate questions appropriately, resolve issues in a friendly and timely manner
- Manage special HR projects: use your excel skills to build out ad hoc projects encompassing benefits, annual audits, and people strategy initiatives
What you need:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in experience, preferably in HR or business
- Strong Excel skills
- 2 years of HR experience
- Strong attention to detail
- Proactive about seeking answers and pitching solutions
- Ability to self-direct and prioritize tasks on a daily basis
- Comfortable dialoging with employees and vendors via email and phone
- Excited to work in a startup environment
Parallel is the first tech-forward provider of care for learning and thinking differences across the United States. We believe learning differences are parallel ways of thinking that should be celebrated! Our mission is to provide students with the resources and encouragement to succeed in the classroom and beyond. To us, this means helping them build confidence in their unique strengths and create strategies to work around their challenges.
Parallel simplifies the process of getting support for learning differences by consolidating providers and resources on a single platform. We connect students with qualified professionals while significantly reducing waiting times, costs, and confusion. We provide a variety of services, including:
- Psychological Assessment & Therapy
- Counseling
- Speech-Language Therapy
- Special Education
- And more!
Want to know what it's like working here? Check out our Glassdoor reviews!
Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
At Parallel, we believe in celebrating differences. This belief extends from schools into our workplace and through the ways we work together toward our mission. We are committed to fostering a diverse, accessible environment that represents many different cultures, backgrounds, viewpoints, and abilities by championing diversity, equity and inclusion.
This is why we are committed to having and fostering a diverse workforce, including those from historically marginalized groups, and are committed to a work environment where employees’ strengths are championed, differences are celebrated, and no one is discriminated against based on age, race, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, national origin, or any other characteristic.
We are a proud equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization in order to build the foundation for different learners and thinkers to thrive.
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