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Join Maple Hospitality Group, where culinary excellence meets unparalleled service. Led by renowned restaurateur Jim Lasky and two-Michelin-starred Chef Danny Grant, known for his innovative approach to fine dining, we're building a team of passionate food lovers dedicated to creating iconic destinations.
We believe success hinges on impeccable food, world-class service, and one-of-a-kind dining experiences. As we expand across Chicago, Scottsdale, Dallas, Miami, Santa Barbara and Boston you'll find endless opportunities for growth, travel, and continuing education.
Our culture is built on four core principles:
- Generosity: Always give more, exceed expectations.
- Excellence: Deliver exceptional work with unmatched expertise.
- Fun: Love what you do, laugh often, and enjoy the journey.
- Fail Fast: Learn from mistakes, adapt, and keep improving.
Maple Hospitality Group is seeking an experienced Human Resources Manager who is ready to lead their own department to support the organization’s continued growth and operational complexity. This role serves as a corporate people leader with direct responsibility for leadership guidance, compliance oversight, and execution of core HR programs across all restaurants and corporate teams.
The Human Resources Manager partners closely with executive leadership, operations, culinary, and corporate leaders to ensure consistent application of employment practices, minimize legal risk, and strengthen leadership capability in a chef driven, high performance hospitality environment. Hospitality experience in chef led organizations is required. Learning and development experience is a plus.
What You Will Do
Key Responsibilities
- Leadership, Employee Relations, and Compliance
- Serve as a primary HR authority for employee relations, performance management, corrective action, leaves, and workplace conduct
- Direct compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws across multiple states, escalating legal matters as appropriate
- Provide leadership guidance to managers at all levels to ensure consistent, policy aligned decision making
- Oversee investigations, fitness for duty matters, and sensitive employee issues with sound judgment and discretion
Talent, Performance, and Development
- Support hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, promotions, and separations in alignment with company standards
- Guide leaders on goal setting, documentation, and Individual Development Plans
- Partner on leadership development initiatives and training programs that reinforce accountability and professional standards
- Support engagement survey follow up and action planning
Compensation and People Operations
- Support salary reviews, bonus administration, offers, and promotions within established compensation frameworks
- Conduct market value reviews to maintain competitive positioning in the luxury hospitality sector
- Maintain accurate HR data and employee records in Paycom, including job changes, requisitions, and mobility actions
- Ensure accurate payroll inputs and adherence to service level and compliance requirements
Organizational Partnership
- Partner with finance, legal, and operations to align people practices with business needs
- Identify workforce risks and compliance gaps and implement corrective actions proactively
- Support new market openings and integration of new teams
Who We Are Looking For
- Five to seven years of HR Generalist or HR Manager experience
- Proven experience in high volume hospitality or chef driven environments required
- Strong working knowledge of multi state employment law and compliance
- Experience with Paycom, Dayforce, Restaurant365, or similar systems
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, or related field
- SHRM or PHR certification preferred
- Learning and development experience a plus
- Willingness to travel 10 to 25 percent
Work Environment
This role is based in the Chicago Corporate Office with regular on site presence in restaurants. The position requires comfort working in active dining rooms and kitchens and the ability to meet standard physical demands of restaurant environments.
This role is based in the Chicago Corporate Office with regular on site presence in restaurants. The position requires comfort working in active dining rooms and kitchens and the ability to meet standard physical demands of restaurant environments.
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