Senior Manager, People & Organization (Animation)

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States

Salary: $151,800–$189,000 annual base salary

Company

hirify.global is a pre-production animation studio creating feature animation and animated series with artists from around the world.

What you will do

• Own the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, status changes, offboarding, records maintenance, benefits administration, and open enrollment.
• Resolve payroll issues and ensure compliance with employment law, Sony policies, and IATSE agreements covering classification, overtime, and benefits eligibility.
• Partner with Production, Studio Operations, and department heads on hiring plans, workforce planning, crew ramp-ups, wrap-downs, and organizational transitions.
• Coach producers, supervisors, and managers on performance, conflict resolution, team culture, and employee relations.
• Run engagement, wellbeing, recognition, inclusion, development, and mobility initiatives with relevant corporate teams.
• Lead and develop P&O team members while improving processes, systems, reporting, and HR data use.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive HR experience, including 3+ years in a people-management role.
• Strong knowledge of onboarding, benefits, payroll, and California employment law.
• Working knowledge of guild and union environments and collective bargaining agreements, including their impact on hiring, payroll, and employee relations; ability to work respectfully with IATSE representatives and apply agreement terms accurately.
• Proficiency with HRIS and payroll systems such as Workday.
• Excellent judgment, discretion, communication, and service-oriented problem-solving skills.
• Ability to balance process and compliance with the pace and flexibility of creative work and manage multiple priorities across productions in different phases.
• Genuine interest in animation and filmmaking and willingness to understand how films are made.

Nice to have

• Experience in media, entertainment, animation, VFX, or another project-based creative environment.
• Experience with IATSE.

Culture & Benefits

• Support an inclusive, supportive environment where artists and production staff can do their best work.
• Partner with D&I on inclusive leadership, employee engagement, and equitable access to development opportunities.
• Support training, career development, and internal mobility within the studio.
• Work with production teams whose staffing ramps up, peaks, and rolls off according to tight schedules.