What are the responsibilities and job description for the HR Business Partner position at Vangst?
HR Business Partner – Cannabis Industry
About the Role:
We are looking for an HR professional with a strong people-first approach and some union familiarity to help support our growing workforce. The HR Associate will be responsible for handling day-to-day HR operations, ensuring compliance, supporting employee relations, and assisting in developing HR training programs. This individual will play a critical role in maintaining a positive work environment while handling key HR responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Location: Seattle, WA (Onsite)
- Employment Type: Contract through end of 2025 (Potential for W2 Conversion Based on Performance)
- Compensation: Up to $38/hour (Based on Experience)
- Schedule: Full-Time, 40 Hours/Week (Flexible Schedule)
About the Role:
We are looking for an HR professional with a strong people-first approach and some union familiarity to help support our growing workforce. The HR Associate will be responsible for handling day-to-day HR operations, ensuring compliance, supporting employee relations, and assisting in developing HR training programs. This individual will play a critical role in maintaining a positive work environment while handling key HR responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the face of HR for the Seattle manufacturing team, providing on-the-ground
- Handle employee relations, including workplace investigations, and conflict resolution, and handle employee relations, including workplace investigations, conflict resolution, and performance management.
- Act as a liaison between employees and leadership, ensuring a positive workplace culture.
- Support union-related processes and ensure compliance with labor agreements.
- Assist in developing and delivering HR training programs for employees and management.
- Provide guidance on HR best practices, policies, and procedures.
- Manage HR administrative tasks, including documentation, compliance, and reporting.
- 1 years of HR experience, preferably in a manufacturing or production environment.
- Some union experience (familiarity required; extensive experience not necessary).
- Background in HR Business Partnering or broader business experience is a plus.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a customer-service mindset.
- Ability to work onsite full-time (40 hours per week, flexible schedule).
- Experience with workplace investigations and employee relations
- Opportunity to directly impact HR processes and build training programs. Work in a fast-growing, dynamic industry with room for professional growth. Potential to transition to a full-time W2 position based on performance.
About Vangst:
Vangst is the cannabis industry’s hiring platform. Vangst helps cannabis companies find the talent they need to grow their business. From on-demand gig workers to trained & credential full-time employees, Vangst has built the industry’s go-to talent marketplace for all cannabis hiring. Vangst is proud to work with 1,200 of the cannabis industry’s leading businesses.
Since raising their seed round in 2018, Vangst has become one of the fastest-growing companies in the cannabis industry and was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.
Today, over 300,000 people have full-time jobs in the cannabis industry and this number is expected to triple over the next five years. Vangst is on a mission to fill every job in the cannabis industry.
Vangst’s headquarters is in Denver, CO. Vangst is a Series B company backed by Lerer Hippeau, Colle Capital, Level One Fund, Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde Capital, and others.
Vangst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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Salary : $38 - $39
