Overview
Human Resources Manager Jobs in South Africa at Beige AI
Title: Human Resources Manager
Company: Beige AI
Location: South Africa
Beige is looking for an exceptional, high-energy HR Manager to join our operations powerhouse, establish bulletproof HR infrastructure, and elevate our global and domestic team scaling capabilities.
This is not a traditional, slow-paced corporate HR role. You will operate as a critical driver of our organizational growth, taking extreme ownership of compliance, recruitment oversight, payroll authorization, and contract administration for a rapidly growing media technology startup.
If you are someone who thrives in high-performance environments, possesses razor-sharp legal and contract knowledge of employment laws, and is obsessed with operational precision, execution, and protecting company standards, we want to hear from you.
About Beige
Beige is an AI-powered media technology platform transforming how content is booked, produced, managed, and delivered at scale.
Through Beige.app, businesses, brands, creators, events, families, and enterprises can seamlessly access content production, media services, creative talent, and technology-driven workflows through a modern, intelligent platform.
We have facilitated thousands of productions and work with startups, major brands, Fortune 500 companies, athletes, creators, celebrities, and high-profile individuals across the United States and internationally. We're building much more than a service company — we're building infrastructure for the future of content.
As Beige scales aggressively, we're building a team obsessed with speed, ownership, execution, innovation, and growth.
Location & Schedule
- Location: Remote
- Schedule: Full-time availability aligned with US Pacific/Central business hours, with flexibility to oversee global team operations as required by a fast-growing startup environment.
Compensation
- Rate/Salary: Competitive compensation scaled based on experience level, plus performance-based milestones. High performance guarantees rapid promotions, long-term executive leadership opportunities, and increased earning potential as our company scales.
What You'll Be Doing
- US Compliance & Contract Architecture: Draft, review, approve, and finalize legally compliant US employment contracts, contract amendments, NDAs, and independent contractor agreements, ensuring total alignment with Federal and state labor laws.
- Recruitment Oversight & Hiring Decisions: Review and approve Recruitment Intake Forms, authorize final job ads, conduct final interview rounds, and make final hiring decisions in close collaboration with department leads while monitoring pipeline KPIs.
- Payroll & Compensation Authorization: Review and authorize monthly global and domestic payroll, performance bonuses, and overtime requests via platforms like Deel and internal Master Payment Spreadsheets, resolving any escalations or disputes seamlessly.
- Documentation & Internal Audits: Lead internal audits to ensure all global employee files, promotion records, and compliance documentation are stored and formatted perfectly. Approve and continuously update company policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Performance Management & Culture: Oversee Annual and Mid-Year Performance Review cycles, finalize evaluation templates, review criteria, and support leadership in aligning departmental OKRs with individual employee goals.
- Tools & Access Management: Approve, manage, and audit team access to essential HR tools, platforms, and subscriptions, ensuring strict data security and platform cost-efficiency.
Who We're Looking For
Required Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Employment Law, or a closely related professional field.
- Employment Law Mastery (Mandatory): Deep, up-to-date, operational knowledge of labor codes, state-specific payroll/wage regulations, compliance mandates, and contractor classifications. This is a non-negotiable requirement.
- Proven Experience: Minimum of 4+ years of professional HR Management experience, preferably within a fast-paced tech startup, media production house, or high-growth agency environment.
- Elite Communication: Exceptional verbal and written English communication skills, with a proven ability to handle delicate employee relations and legal matters with absolute confidentiality and professionalism.
- Technical Hardware & Workspace Setup: A highly secure, reliable remote office setup with high-speed internet and stable power infrastructure to support seamless video interviewing and data-sensitive operations.
Preferred / Major Plus:
- Professional Certification: Highly value active HR certifications such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR.
- Modern Payroll Stacks: Direct experience managing and processing international and domestic teams through modern global payroll platforms like Deel.
- Collaboration Tools: Familiarity with remote productivity, tracking, and collaboration stacks (Google Workspace, Slack, Discord, Asana, Notion).
Core Behavioral Expectations: To succeed in this role, you must be obsessed with operational detail, legal accuracy, and execution speed. You need to welcome rapidly shifting priorities, take extreme ownership of compliance risks before they happen, and actively prefer building elite, high-impact organizational infrastructure over low-stakes, routine administration.