Director of Human Resources
Luxury Resort | Southeast United States
Lead the people strategy behind one of the Southeast’s premier luxury resort experiences.
An exceptional luxury resort in the Southeast is seeking an accomplished Director of Human Resources to join its executive leadership team. This is a highly visible opportunity to shape associate culture, develop exceptional talent, and directly influence the resort’s continued success.
The Director of Human Resources will serve as a strategic business partner to the Resort General Manager, leading all aspects of HR while maintaining a visible, approachable presence throughout the operation.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the people strategy and culture of an exceptional luxury resort while working alongside a respected executive leadership team.
If you’re ready to make a significant impact in one of the Southeast’s premier luxury hospitality environments, we welcome the opportunity to speak with you confidentially.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the full HR function, including talent acquisition, associate relations, compensation, benefits, training, performance management, and compliance.
- Partner with executive leadership on workforce planning, organizational strategy, and talent development.
- Build a culture focused on service excellence, engagement, accountability, and retention.
- Recruit, develop, and retain top talent across hotel operations, culinary, food and beverage, spa, recreation, and administrative departments.
- Guide employee-relations matters, investigations, conflict resolution, and policy interpretation.
- Develop succession planning and leadership-development initiatives.
- Monitor workforce trends and provide actionable recommendations to resort leadership.
- Maintain strong relationships with associates and leaders at every level.
Ideal Candidate
- 7+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, preferably within a luxury hotel, resort, club, or similarly sophisticated hospitality environment.
- Proven success with talent acquisition, retention, engagement, leadership development, and culture-building.
- Strong knowledge of employment law, employee relations, compensation, benefits, and HR compliance.
- Exceptional communication, judgment, discretion, and emotional intelligence.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred; SHRM-SCP, SHRM-CP, SPHR, or PHR certification preferred.
- Current U.S. work authorization required for this opportunity.
- Relocation assistance may be available
- Competitive salary
- Bonus potential
- Comprehensive benefits package