HR Business Partner North America (On-site)
As a Regional HR Business Partner, Evolution partners with studio and operations leaders to create an inclusive, consistent, and high-performing employee experience across multiple states. The role involves leading employee relations and investigations, coaching emerging people leaders, and championing fairness and compliance while fueling a fast-paced creative culture.
The position requires serving as the regional expert and trusted advisor on employee relations, workplace behaviour, and performance management. Building confidence and consistency in how managers handle employee relations, leave, and corrective actions is key, alongside developing toolkits that strengthen day-to-day people management practices. Building succession planning guidelines and pipelines internally to identify, train, and ready high-performing operational team members for promotion is also a responsibility. Support for reorganizations, new studio launches, or team transitions is expected. Reinforcing company values and fairness in decision-making to create psychologically safe, high-performing teams is crucial. Partnering with Academy and Studio HR teams to ensure onboarding and retention strategies are data-driven and equitable is part of the role. Championing the company’s creative culture and values across teams and acting to ensure diverse perspectives are represented and supported in people processes and programs are also key functions. Ensuring adherence to all relevant federal and state employment laws including wage, hour, leave, pay transparency, and accommodations is required. Maintaining consistent application of policies and practices across studios and states to limit risk and promote fairness is essential. Partnering with HR Management to refine policies and handbooks, ensuring clarity and practical usability for managers is expected. Staying ahead of evolving labour legislation that impacts remote or hybrid gaming employees is also a requirement. The position will require frequent travel (30-40%) to US and Canadian studio locations.
- Serve as the regional expert and trusted advisor on employee relations, workplace behaviour, and performance management.
- Conduct and oversee fair, thorough, and well-documented investigations into complaints, conflicts, or policy violations.
- Identify trends and proactively address root causes through leader coaching, policy reinforcement, or training.
- Partner closely with Legal and Head of HR to ensure decisions reduce employer liability and uphold consistency across states.
- Build confidence and consistency in how managers handle employee relations, leave, and corrective actions.
- Develop and deliver toolkits that strengthen day-to-day people management practices.
- Build succession planning guidelines and pipelines internally to identify, train, and ready high-performing operational team members for promotion.
- Support reorganizations, new studio launches, or team transitions.
- Reinforce company values and fairness in decision-making to create psychologically safe, high-performing teams.
- Partner with Academy and Studio HR teams to ensure onboarding and retention strategies are data-driven and equitable.
- Champion the company’s creative culture and values across teams.
- Act to ensure diverse perspectives are represented and supported in people processes and programs.
- Ensure adherence to all relevant federal and state employment laws including wage, hour, leave, pay transparency, and accommodations.
- Maintain consistent application of policies and practices across studios and states to limit risk and promote fairness.
- Partner with HR Management to refine policies and handbooks, ensuring clarity and practical usability for managers.
- Stay ahead of evolving labour legislation that impacts remote or hybrid gaming employees.
- Travel frequently (30-40%) to US and Canadian studio locations.
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources or a related field (or equivalent experience) (required).
- Evolution HR experience (preferred).
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive HR experience (required).
- Experience supporting multi-state operations (preferred).
- Demonstrated experience managing employee relations investigations, performance management, and disciplinary processes with fairness and consistency (required).
- Solid understanding of U.S. federal and state employment laws (required).
- Proven ability to coach and influence managers, particularly early-career and mid-level leaders, on people leadership best practices (required).
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build trust across remote or hybrid teams (required).
- Experience supporting hospitality, customer service, or gaming environments (required).
- Proficiency with HRIS systems, data reporting, and remote collaboration tools (e.g., MS Suite, Power Bi, Sage, MS Teams, Slack) (required).
- Compensation: USD 110000 - USD 130000 yearly.
Evolution AB is a Swedish company and the world's leading developer and supplier of live casino solutions for online gaming operators. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Stockholm, it produces live dealer games - including roulette, blackjack and a range of game shows - streamed from studios across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Through the acquisitions of NetEnt, Red Tiger, Big Time Gaming and others, the group is also a major online slots provider. Listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, Evolution employs more than 20,000 people worldwide.
