About Boat Rocker Studios

An independent, integrated global entertainment company, Boat Rocker Studios’ mission is to tell stories and build iconic brands across all genres and media. With offices around the world, Boat Rocker brings end-to-end creative expertise, robust business operations, and global franchise capabilities across Scripted, Unscripted, Documentary, and Kids & Family content. Its services span production, distribution, and brand & franchise management. In partnership with Industrial Brothers, Boat Rocker develops, produces, and exploits Industrial Brothers' innovative and original animated series for preschool and family audiences.

A selection of Boat Rocker’s projects includes Invasion (Apple TV+), Palm Royale (Apple TV+), Mix Tape (BBC, Binge, RTE), Video Nasty (BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Three, Virgin Media One, WDR), This Is the Tom Green Documentary (Prime Video), Orphan Black: Echoes (AMC), American Rust: Broken Justice (Prime Video), Beacon 23 (MGM+), Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (Hulu), Downey’s Dream Cars (Max), BS High (HBO), Orphan Black (BBC AMERICA, CTV Sci-Fi Channel), Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry (Apple TV+), The Next Step (BBC, Corus, CBC), Daniel Spellbound (Netflix), Dino Ranch (Disney+, Disney Junior, CBC), and Dino Ranch: Island Explorers (Amazon Kids+, CBC, Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA).For more information, please visit www.boatrocker.com.

The Role
The Manager, Human Resources plays a key role in supporting the full employee lifecycle and delivering day-to-day HR support to employees, managers, and executives across Canada, the US, and the UK. This role operates as a trusted partner to the production studio and corporate teams, ensuring effective delivery of core HR processes, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, employee relations, HR operations and benefits/compensation.

The ideal candidate is a proactive, detail-oriented self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset who thrives in a fast-paced environment and embraces a “no job is too big or too small” approach. Collaborative and engaging, they serve as a primary point of contact for HR-related matters, provide consultative guidance, ensure compliance with applicable regulations, and contribute to ongoing HR initiatives and process improvements while fostering a positive and high-performing culture.

Responsibilities
Business Partnership / Employee Relations

Build relationships with business leaders and people leaders to establish credibility as a trusted advisor and strategic partner.
Provide effective coaching, counseling and performance strategies on all employee relations situations in alignment with best practices and demonstrating sound understanding of employment law and applicable legislation.
Support employee relations efforts by responding to questions, addressing concerns, and assisting HR leadership with investigations or documentation.
Partner with management on day-to day HR operational demands such as performance management, termination, conflict resolution, and accommodation requests.
Provide communication and change management expertise on business initiatives and support people leaders at all levels to effectively facilitate change.
Maintain HR libraries including job descriptions, policies, and templates.
Prepare employment verification letters, reports, presentations, and other HR correspondence.

Recruitment & Onboarding

Manage full-cycle recruitment, including posting job openings, scheduling interviews, prescreening candidates, coordinating candidate communications, and supporting background checks.
Draft and prepare offer letters, employment confirmations, and other hiring documentation.
Facilitate new hire onboarding, including system setup, orientation, documentation collection, welcome materials, and coordination with internal stakeholders.
Ensure smooth offboarding, including HRIS updates, payroll and benefits changes, exit packets, and access removal.

HR Operations & Employee Support

Maintain and update employee information within HRIS.
Administer health, dental, vision, and other benefit programs.
Manage enrollments, changes, terminations, leave of absence claims, and open enrollment processes.
Provide consultative guidance to employees and managers regarding compensation and benefits policies.
Prepare employment verification letters, reports, presentations, and other HR correspondence.
Support compensation programs and salary reviews.

Project Support

Support HR department projects and initiatives aimed at continuous improvement, automation, and efficiency.

Qualifications

Post-secondary education with focus on Human Resources or related field preferred.
5 years of experience in Human Resources, including HR Business Parter experience.
Strong knowledge of HR policies, employment law, and best practices in Canada and US (experience with UK legislation considered an asset).
AI fluency in leveraging AI tools to drive efficiencies and value add improvements
Continuous improvement mindset to solve individual issues, and to instill best practices or systems thinking to embed processes and solve for future issues
Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and professionalism.
Strong decision-making, problem-solving, and conflict-management skills.
Exceptional organization, time management, and attention to detail.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe Suite.

Salary Range: $85,000 - $110,000

Boat Rocker is committed to hiring and supporting diverse candidates. We strongly encourage applications from people who identify as being part of an under-represented and equity-deserving group. This would include people who identify as racialized, Black, Indigenous, women, LGBTQ2SI+, and having a disability among others.