Simeio
HR Director, Americas
11720 Amber Park Dr Suite 400, Alpharetta, GA 30009
On-site · Full-time
First seen by offpeak October 23, 2026
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Role Overview
Lead people strategy and HR operations across the Americas, partnering with business leaders and global HR to support growth, employee experience, and local compliance.This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution across employee relations, talent management, organizational design, payroll, benefits, total rewards, immigration and visa management, and regional HR service delivery. You will balance global consistency with local requirements, building trusted relationships across countries, functions, and time zones.
Key Responsibilities
- Shape regional people strategy, workforce planning, organizational design, and change initiatives.
- Advise leaders on employee relations, performance, engagement, succession, and development.
- Lead fair, consistent employee relations practices, including complex case management, workplace investigations, and issue resolution in partnership with Legal.
- Oversee regional policies and employment practices with local HR specialists and counsel, addressing applicable national, state, provincial, and local requirements.
- Oversee employment policies, investigations, and local compliance with Legal and country specialists.
- Own regional payroll delivery and manage external payroll teams and providers, ensuring accurate processing, commission & expenses processing, reconciliations, controls, and statutory reporting with Finance.
- Manage benefits programs, enrollment, renewals, brokers, and costs; partner on compensation reviews.
- Oversee immigration and visas, including sponsorship, work permits, filing deadlines, renewals, authorization tracking, and transfers with specialist counsel.
- Lead regional HR teams, budgets, vendors, systems, and employee lifecycle processes.
- Use workforce data to improve retention, employee experience, and HR service delivery.
Experience and Qualifications
- Proven capability across employee relations, talent management, organizational design, change management, payroll oversight, benefits administration, and HR operations.
- Commercial and analytical skills, including the ability to interpret workforce data and align people priorities with business outcomes.
- Excellent communication, coaching, and problem-solving skills, with sound judgment and discretion in handling confidential matters.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in technology, professional services, consulting, or another knowledge-intensive business.
- Experience supporting organizational growth, transformation, or acquisition integration.
- Experience improving HR information systems and regional HR service delivery.
Senior HR leadership experience across the Americas, including leading dispersed teams and advising executives.
- Strong knowledge of US employment practices and experience working with local experts in Canada and Latin America.
- Hands-on experience in employee relations, talent management, payroll, benefits, and immigration/visa oversight.
- Strong commercial judgment, communication, analytical skills, and discretion.
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience; HR certification and Spanish are advantageous
About Simeio and What We Do:
Simeio has over 650 talented employees across the globe. We have offices in USA (Atlanta HQ and Texas), India, Canada, Costa Rica and UK.
Founded in 2007, and now backed by private equity company ZMC, Simeio is recognized as a top IAM provider by industry analysts.
Alongside Simeio’s identity orchestration tool ‘Simeio IO’ - Simeio also partners with industry leading IAM software vendors to provide access management, identity governance and administration, privileged access management and risk intelligence services across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid technology environments.
Simeio provides services to numerous Fortune 1000 companies across all industries including financial services, technology, healthcare, media, retail, public sector, utilities and education.
Simeio is an equal opportunity employer. If you require assistance with completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to any of the recruitment team at recruitment@simeio.com or +1 404-882-3700.