Confidential Employer

Director, Human Resources & Workforce Strategy

Edmonton, AB | $120,000–$140,000 + Bonus | Full-Time | In Person

KPI is conducting a confidential search for an experienced HR leader to join a growing, operationally focused organization that is actively rethinking how people, technology and business operations work together.

This is a hands-on senior leadership opportunity for someone who can lead the fundamentals of Human Resources while helping build what the next generation of the function looks like.

The mandate combines executive advisory, employee relations, workforce strategy, organizational development, leadership training, HR operations and change management with a meaningful focus on AI, automation and technology implementation.

We are looking for someone who understands people—but is also genuinely excited about technology.

Someone who looks at a repetitive process and wonders why it is still being done manually. Someone who is already experimenting with AI in their own professional life, understands its practical limitations and can identify where it can make employees, managers and the organization more effective.

This isn't about adding “AI” to an HR strategy document.

It's about actually using it.

The Opportunity

The successful candidate will work closely with executive and operational leadership to help build a scalable, modern HR and workforce function.

You will be expected to move comfortably between strategy and execution. One day may involve advising leadership on a complex employee matter; another could involve redesigning an onboarding process, developing leadership training, reviewing workforce requirements or testing how AI can eliminate hours of repetitive administrative work.

You will have an opportunity to examine existing HR practices and ask:

What should we keep? What should we improve? What can we automate? Where can AI help? And where does human judgment need to remain firmly in control?

You will then help turn those answers into practical systems, processes and programs that people actually use.

What You'll Be Doing

You will act as a trusted HR advisor to executive and operational leadership while taking ownership of key people and workforce initiatives across the organization.

Responsibilities will include advising leaders on employee relations, performance management and complex workplace matters; developing and implementing HR policies and programs; supporting workforce and succession planning; improving recruitment and onboarding practices; developing workplace and leadership training; and helping guide the people side of organizational change.

You will also help strengthen the infrastructure behind HR—processes, documentation, reporting, technology and workflows—so the function can scale alongside the organization.

A major part of the opportunity will be identifying where technology can remove unnecessary administrative work and create better experiences for employees and managers.

AI, Automation & Technology

This is an important part of the role.

We aren't looking for someone who simply uses AI to write the occasional email.

We want someone who is curious about what these technologies can actually do and who has started applying them to real work.

You might have used AI or automation to improve:

• Recruitment and candidate workflows

• Onboarding and employee documentation

• HR policies and knowledge management

• Employee communications

• Performance-management processes

• Training and leadership development

• Workforce planning and reporting

• Meeting documentation and follow-up

• Employee self-service

• HR administration and repetitive workflows

• Data analysis and management reporting

• Internal processes outside of HR

Maybe you have built your own workflows. Maybe you have connected existing tools. Maybe you have developed prompts or internal resources that your team now uses. Maybe you have automated something everyone assumed had to remain manual.

We want to hear about it.

Candidates should be prepared to provide specific examples of how they have personally used AI, automation or technology in their professional work—including the problem they were trying to solve, the tools they used, how they implemented the solution and what changed as a result.

You do not need to be a developer.

You do need to be comfortable experimenting, learning and implementing.

Just as importantly, you should understand that AI does not replace sound HR judgment. Confidentiality, privacy, employment legislation, appropriate human oversight and responsible implementation matter.

What We're Looking For

You will bring progressive senior-level experience as an HR Generalist, HR Business Partner, HR Manager, Director or comparable people leader.

Your experience should include advising senior and operational leaders, managing complex employee relations and performance matters, developing policies and programs, supporting organizational change and building practical HR processes.

You should also be comfortable developing and facilitating workplace or leadership training and have a working knowledge of Alberta employment legislation.

Experience within an operational, multi-location, real estate, property management, construction or similarly fast-moving environment would be valuable, although we are open to strong candidates from other industries who can demonstrate highly transferable experience.

Relevant HR education is expected, with a CPHR designation or comparable professional development considered an asset.

Above all, we are looking for someone with strong judgment, curiosity and the ability to build, not simply administer.

The Person

The right person will probably enjoy this role if they are the one colleagues come to when something complicated needs to be figured out.

You can sit with executives and discuss workforce strategy, then work directly with managers to solve an operational people problem.

You understand policies, legislation and process, but you don't hide behind them.

You are comfortable challenging the way something has always been done.

You like learning new technology.

And when you discover a better way of doing something, your instinct isn't simply to talk about it—you want to test it, implement it and see whether it works.

We are particularly interested in HR professionals who believe the next several years will fundamentally change how HR operates and want an opportunity to participate directly in that change.

Compensation & Benefits

Base Salary: $120,000–$140,000
Additional Compensation: Bonus
Benefits: Extended Health Care | Dental Care | RRSP Match | On-Site Parking
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Work Arrangement: Full-Time | In Person

If you're an experienced HR leader who understands the fundamentals but is excited about building what comes next, we'd like to hear from you.