Head of HR

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Canela Media is the fastest-growing diverse-owned media & entertainment company. This technology-focused & innovation-driven company is based in the United States and Latin America. Canela.

TV is its standalone AVOD platform, with various content verticals across Original Series & Movies, Music, Kids, Sports and News. The company was founded in 2019 and Canela.

TV launched in 2020, reaching significant growth and innovation milestones in its first five years of being in business, achieving industry-wide recognition.

Canela is excited to announce an opening for a Head of Human Resources to lead the People function across its U.S. and LATAM operations.

Reporting directly to the Global President, you’ll be responsible for building operational excellence across our U.S. and LATAM operations (based in Mexico), leading all aspects of the people function, from talent acquisition, onboarding, performance management, organizational effectiveness, compliance, people analytics, total rewards, and employee relations. You will partner closely with the senior leadership team to drive talent strategy, strengthen core people programs, and maintain a consistent and high-quality employee experience at every stage.

Our ideal candidate combines operational rigor with strong people instincts. You bring structure to start‑up organizations, strengthening HR foundations to ensure that people operations run seamlessly and efficiently — enabling the business to perform at its best.

• Oversee all day-to-day HR operations, including talent acquisition, onboarding, HRIS, compensation and benefits administration, compliance, performance management, and employee relations.
• Maintain HR systems integrity and reporting dashboards for headcount, turnover, engagement, and compliance.
• Manage annual headcount and budget for the team and partner with the CFO to develop annual strategic priorities for the business and drive results against established priorities.
• Partner with Legal (internal and external counsel) and Finance to ensure compliance with employment laws, audits, and policy governance across all locations; research and review new legislation to maintain compliance and ensure proper employee notices are updated and posted; maintain various employee legal documentation for all locations.
• Responsible for global policy creation and revisions as well as annual acknowledgements for the country‑specific offices based on cultural and business alignment and to ensure compliance.
• Partner with the CFO in overseeing payroll, year‑end reporting activities, and payroll tax matters.
• Oversee the HR team to ensure accurate benefit and payroll administration related to employee changes, including onboarding & off‑boarding processes, job changes/promotion, accurate employee data/record management.
• Responsible for data accuracy and regular audits to ensure alignment with established guidelines.

• Partner with the Global President and senior leaders to ensure organizational structures, staffing plans, and workforce data align with business objectives and budgets.
• Deliver insights through HR metrics and analytics to guide decision-making on headcount, retention, and organizational effectiveness.
• Manage employee relations matters with professionalism, confidentiality, and balanced judgment; support the HR team in responding to employee questions; evolve self‑service and materials to proactively address common questions.
• Responsible for developing and driving talent acquisition and management strategies and processes including best practices by market (US & LATAM) to source, recruit and retain top talent.
• Defines KPI’s to measure and improve effectiveness of the recruitment process.
• Drives workforce & succession planning processes.
• Support performance management review process – continuously refine performance management strategy to meet the development needs of the growing team; provide analysis to…