Location: Remote US (Eastern Timezone) or Montreal, Canada
About This Role
This HR Generalist position is a newly created role at Cerence. We are excited to welcome new talent into our team and continue to grow and innovate within the HR space as our organization evolves.
The HR Generalist plays a pivotal role in supporting the HR function across multiple domains, including business partnership, general HR support, talent and organizational development, shared services, and recruiting. This position is responsible for ensuring smooth HR operations, delivering high-quality support to employees and managers, and contributing to key HR projects and reporting.
This role will report to the Director of Talent and Organizational Development and will work closely with a collaborative HR team composed of talent acquisition, compensation, T&OD, HRBPs, and HR operations. The HR Generalist will be an integral part of this team, contributing to cross-functional initiatives and supporting the seamless delivery of HR services across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
1. Business Partner Support
Support the Orientation/Onboarding program for new hires
Manage onboarding and exit survey reporting
Troubleshoot time and attendance issues in Workday
2. General HR Support
Maintain and clean up the HR intranet
Track engagement budgets
Provide ad-hoc reporting support
Assist with ad-hoc projects as needed
3. Talent & Organizational Development (T&OD)
Support the LinkedIn Learning program
Administer the recognition platform
Manage reporting and follow-ups for our new hire and annual compliance training program
Oversee reporting and follow-ups on our learning program
4. Shared Services
Triage daily help desk tickets
Conduct monthly HR audits
Reconcile monthly purchase orders (POs)
5. Recruiting
Reconcile weekly recruiting reports
Administer new hire and candidate satisfaction surveys
Compensation Structure
Includes salary, 5% bonus potential (performance dependent), and benefits. Target salary range is between 68,000-85,000 USD.
Desired Background / Traits
We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented individual who thrives in a collaborative environment. The ideal candidate should possess strong communication skills, be comfortable working across departments, and demonstrate a commitment to supporting team goals. Experience in HR operations, document management, and recruiting is highly desired, as well as a proven ability to adapt to evolving priorities and manage multiple tasks efficiently. Workday experience is a plus.
Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC and www.cerence.com) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world. Spun out from Nuance in October 2019, Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world’s leading automakers – from Ford and Fiat Chrysler to Daimler, Audi and BMW to Geely and SAIC – to transform how a car feels, responds and learns. Its track record is built on more than 20 years of industry experience and leadership and more than 500 million cars on the road today across more than 70 languages.
As Cerence looks to the future and continues an ambitious growth agenda, we need someone to join the team and help build the future of voice and AI in cars. This is an exciting opportunity to join Cerence’s passionate, dedicated, global team and be a part of meaningful innovation in a rapidly growing industry.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYERCerence is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, genetic information and other protected classifications. Cerence Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
All prospective and current Employees need to remain vigilant when it comes to executing security policies in the workplace. This includes:
- Following workplace security protocols and training programs to familiarize with the ways to maintain a safe workplace.
- Following security procedures to report any suspicious activity.
- Having respect for corporate security procedures to allow those procedures to be effective.
- Adhering to company's compliance and regulations.
- Encouraging to follow a zero tolerance for workplace violence.
- Basic knowledge of information security and data privacy requirements (e.g., how to protect data & how to be handling this data).
- Demonstrative knowledge of information security through internal training programs.
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