Director of HR
GTT
Portsmouth, NH
JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Portsmouth, NH
POSTED
6 days ago
Primary Job Title
Director of Human Resources
Alternate / Related Job Titles
- Director of People & Culture
- Head of Human Resources
- HR Strategy Director
- Director of Talent & Performance
Location
Portsmouth, NH
(Onsite / Hybrid flexibility not specified)
(Onsite / Hybrid flexibility not specified)
Position Details
- Position Type: Direct Hire
- Start: As Soon As Possible
- Pay Rate / Salary: Not disclosed
Role Summary
The Director of HR is a strategic, execution-driven leader responsible for building and leading the Human Resources function for a fast-growing U.S. staffing organization. This role is not focused on day-to-day transactional HR, but on creating a performance-driven culture, strong governance, and scalable people systems that support aggressive revenue growth and delivery excellence.
The ideal candidate brings deep experience in U.S. staffing environments, understands recruiter productivity, delivery metrics, audits, and compliance, and can design HR systems that drive accountability, leadership maturity, and sustainable growth.
Key Objectives
- Build and implement performance management frameworks, including PIPs, for recruiters, leads, and managers
- Establish a high-performance culture aligned with revenue growth, delivery quality, and employee engagement
- Ensure delivery-side compliance, audits, and governance across staffing operations
- Design and execute HR strategy, policies, and operating models from the ground up
- Partner with leadership to strengthen accountability, leadership capability, and organizational maturity
Core Responsibilities
- Design scalable performance management and accountability systems tailored to staffing and recruiting teams
- Define recruiter productivity metrics, delivery KPIs, and leadership scorecards
- Build governance models supporting audits, compliance, and delivery excellence
- Develop HR policies, procedures, and frameworks aligned with U.S. staffing regulations
- Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on people, culture, and organizational effectiveness
- Support leadership development and succession planning initiatives
- Drive alignment between business strategy, people strategy, and execution
Required Skills & Experience
Required
- Extensive experience in U.S. staffing or recruiting organizations
- Strong understanding of recruiter productivity, delivery metrics, and compliance
- Proven ability to build HR infrastructure and strategy from scratch
- Experience implementing performance management and PIP frameworks
- Executive-level communication and stakeholder influence skills
Preferred
- Experience supporting high-growth or private-equity-backed organizations
- Background in audit readiness, compliance governance, and process optimization
- Change management and leadership development experience
Leadership & Culture Expectations
- Champion a culture of accountability, performance, and continuous improvement
- Model integrity, transparency, and operational discipline
- Foster leadership maturity across recruiter, manager, and executive levels
- Align people practices with revenue, delivery outcomes, and employee satisfaction
About GTT
GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company based in Alaska. We support diverse and inclusive workplaces and partner with Fortune 500 organizations across staffing, technology, life sciences, and professional services throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Job Number:26-00883
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