WD-40 Company

HR Organizational Design & Talent Manager (Part-Time)

WD-40 Company  •  San Diego, CA (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Are you passionate about helping organizations and people thrive? We're looking for a part-time Human Resources Talent Manager to lead talent and organizational development initiatives for our Corporate and Global teams. This is a unique opportunity to influence how work gets done, how leaders grow, and how talent is developed across a global organization.

In this role, you'll partner with senior leaders to design effective organizations, build future-ready talent strategies, strengthen performance and engagement, and help shape the workforce needed for tomorrow. If you enjoy balancing strategy with hands-on execution, bringing clarity to complex people challenges, and making a meaningful impact through thoughtful talent practices, we'd love to hear from you!

This role offers a flexible part-time schedule (20 hours per week) working between our San Diego Scripps Ranch office and home.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. and should not require sponsorship now or in the future to legally work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with leaders to assess organizational effectiveness and design teams, roles, and organizational structures that support business strategy and growth.
  • Lead talent and organizational development initiatives, including succession planning, workforce planning, and leadership development.
  • Manage and support performance management processes, including goal setting, coaching, calibration, and employee development planning.
  • Advise leaders on employee relations matters, performance concerns, workplace accommodations, and people-related decision making.
  • Collaborate with Learning & Development to identify capability gaps and deliver solutions that support organizational needs.
  • Analyze workforce, engagement, and talent data to identify trends, provide insights, and recommend action plans.
  • Facilitate organizational change and support leaders through team transitions and transformation initiatives.
  • Lead engagement survey action planning and help cultivate a positive, high-performing employee experience.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology (I/O Psychology) or Organizational Development or a related field, strongly preferred.
  • 4-6 years of progressive experience in organizational development
  • 5-7 years of progressive experience in talent management, employee relations.
  • Experience supporting organizational design, workforce planning, talent development, and performance management programs.
  • Demonstrated success partnering with leaders to solve complex people and organizational challenges.
  • Strong employee relations experience, including coaching leaders through sensitive workplace matters.
  • Ability to balance strategic thinking with practical execution in a fast-paced business environment.
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, consulting, and relationship-building skills.
  • Experience using data and insights to inform recommendations and drive decision making.
  • Proficiency with HR systems, Microsoft Office applications, and related HR technology tools.

About Us

Our “Why”

At WD-40 Company, we believe that purpose-driven, passionate people guided by our values create amazing outcomes. Our "why" is refreshingly simple - we exist to create positive lasting memories in everything we do.

Why You Should Apply

  • A strong values-aligned organization where contributions are acknowledged and rewarded, and where 91% of our employees experience a sense of belonging.
  • A learning-based culture where 77% of our team believe they can achieve their career objectives.
  • Over 95% employee engagement as of our most recent global employee survey.
  • 91% of our people actively recommend WD-40 Company as a great place to work.

Do You Align With Our Values?

Please, only consider employment with WD-40 Company if you feel as strongly about our values as we do: We live, breathe, and play by our values every day

Thank you for considering WD-40 Company in your career search!

#PositiveLastingMemories

At WD-40 Company we foster a culture of inclusion where all individuals are recognized, valued, respected, and experience a sense of belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to individual characteristics that make us unique such as our backgrounds, experiences, qualities, talents, traits, beliefs, and preferences. #LI-RS1

WD-40 Company

About WD-40 Company

Founded in San Diego, California U.S.A. in 1953, WD-40 Company is a publicly traded, global sales and marketing company. The blue and yellow can with the little red top and yellow “shield” carries with it positive brand equity - the brand is memorable, easily recognizable and known for its superiority in quality and reliability to end users across 62 unique channels of trade in more than 176 countries. Our maintenance products currently make up ~90% of net sales and homecare and cleaning products ~10%.

WD-40 Company's corporate headquarters and Corporate Brand Support Center are located in San Diego. Our ~500 highly engaged tribe members in our 15 offices throughout the world are caretakers of our brands and innovators of our future.

Our “Why”

We exist to create positive lasting memories in everything we do. We solve problems. We make things work smoothly. We create opportunities.

Our “How”

We create positive lasting memories by cultivating a tribal culture of learning and teaching which produces a highly engaged workforce who live our company’s values every day.

Our “What”

Our mission is to deliver unique, high value and easy-to-use solutions for a wide variety of maintenance needs in workshops, factories and homes. We market and distribute our brands across multiple trade channels in countries all over the world.

In the company's 70 year history, there has not been a reduction in force. We work diligently to ensure that our approach to workforce planning and hiring is conservative to ensure sustainable workforce in good times and bad. We invest carefully and our people and take seriously the commitment we make to hiring, developing and retaining. This aligns with our people first strategy: our people are not disposable.

Industry
Wholesale & Distribution
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
San Diego, California
Year Founded
1953
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