About Eggs Unlimited
Eggs Unlimited is one of the world’s largest suppliers of eggs, serving leading retailers and food manufacturers around the globe. We operate the largest egg trading floor in the United States, trading hundreds of truckloads each week. Our world-class support teams manage an extensive network of farms, warehousing channels, supply-chain partners, and customers, ensuring consistently superior service levels.

In 2019, Eggs Unlimited revolutionized the egg industry and the way customers are supported by combining market intelligence, supply-chain planning, commodity expertise, and exceptional service within one organization.

Commodity trading and complex supply-chain management require us to perform at the highest level every day. Our customers include some of the largest retailers in the world, and they rely on our team to understand their businesses, anticipate their needs, solve problems quickly, and execute with speed and accuracy.
We set high expectations for every member of our team. Employees are expected to become experts within their departments, take ownership of their responsibilities, continuously improve our processes and systems, and contribute to the company’s future growth.

Eggs Unlimited continues to scale aggressively. We are growing our existing business, expanding into new commodities, and remaining highly focused on mergers and acquisitions. While many companies are downsizing, we are investing in our people, infrastructure, technology, and long-term growth.

As a high-performing organization, we look for A-players who are comfortable working in a fast-paced, demanding trading environment. Successful team members demonstrate accountability, resilience, initiative, and the ability to manage a high volume of work without compromising accuracy or quality.

We believe in developing our people as deliberately as we develop our business. We recognize excellence, encourage employees to exceed expectations in their current positions, and create opportunities for high performers to grow and advance throughout the company.

If you believe in hard work, accountability, recognition, success, and growth, and you consistently perform at a high level, join us as we build the largest food trading company in the world.

Job Summary:
Eggs Unlimited is seeking a business-minded, hands-on Director of Human Resources for our Irvine, CA office. This leader will align people strategy with the business objectives of a rapidly growing company that is aggressively expanding its capabilities, leadership bench, business reach, and organizational scale.

The ideal candidate thinks like a business leader and has helped an organization scale through major growth in headcount, revenue, complexity, new business lines, geographic reach, or acquisitions. This role requires competitive intensity and urgency toward growth, execution, problem-solving, and winning, while maintaining respect and professionalism in all people interactions. The right person will help develop exceptional leaders, compliment efforts to help retain top talent, build scalable infrastructure, and favors practical solutions over bureaucracy. The Director will serve as the senior leader for core HR strategy and execution, partnering across the broader People organization while remaining highly hands-on in leadership, performance, employee relations, organizational scaling, and M&A integration. The Director will advise executives, lead significant people and organizational matters, and assist in developing a People Generalist who owns routine HR operations, payroll and benefits administration, onboarding, employee support, and basic employee relations.

Core Responsibilities:

Business Partnership, Commercial Alignment & Scale

Align people strategy, organizational priorities, and workforce investment with commercial goals, customers, revenue growth, profitability, and execution
Partner closely with executive, sales, commercial, operations, and functional leaders to build exceptional leadership, attract and retain top talent, and scale organizational capability
Help build people infrastructure ahead of aggressive expansion, including new markets, business lines, acquisitions, and major increases in headcount and complexity
Bring appropriate business aggression, competitive intensity, and urgency to HR while favoring practical, business-enabling solutions over unnecessary bureaucracy

Culture, Leadership & Performance

Reinforce a culture built on strong values and exceptional business results
Coach leaders to build high-performing, results-oriented teams with clear accountability and measurable performance expectations
Lead practical performance management, reviews, leadership development, retention, and timely action on performance concerns
Balance high standards with respect, transparency, recognition, employee engagement, and genuine care for employees

Succession Planning & Business Continuity

Help lead succession planning for all key leadership and business-critical roles, protecting critical knowledge, leadership capability, and business continuity
Establish successors, readiness assessments, development milestones, owners, and timelines; drive timely execution and report risks and progress to leadership

Mergers, Acquisitions & Change Management

Lead the people aspects of M&A, including HR due diligence, organizational and leadership assessment, critical-talent and culture risks, and change management
Execute post-acquisition integration across leadership, structure, communication, culture, systems, and talent—on time and while maintaining business continuity

Employee Relations, Culture & HR Leadership

Lead complex employee relations, investigations, conflict resolution, performance actions, and employment-risk matters in partnership with Legal and leadership
Set strategy for recognition, engagement, employee communication, company events, and culture-building initiatives
Help lead and develop the People Generalist; oversee payroll, benefits, onboarding, HR systems, policies, compliance, metrics, and controls without owning routine transactions
Use workforce and performance data to guide decisions, manage risk, and measure progress; operate with urgency and take issues through resolution
Travel occasionally based on business needs, including domestic travel and international travel to the Philippines

Qualifications:

8+ years of progressive HR leadership or HR Business Partner experience, including advising executives and managers
Commercial experience in a high-growth, sales-driven, customer-focused, or operationally intensive business
Demonstrated success aligning people strategy with growth, profitability, customer outcomes, and business execution
Experience scaling organizations through major growth in headcount, revenue, complexity, geographic reach, or business lines
Expertise in complex employee relations, investigations, conflict resolution, performance management, leadership coaching, and California employment law
Experience building high-performance cultures, leading succession planning, and developing leaders and HR team members
Practical, low-bureaucracy style with strong business judgment; comfortable pursuing growth aggressively with urgency, ownership, resilience, and a drive to win
Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred; SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or comparable senior-level certification also preferred

Strongly Preferred:

Experience leading M&A due diligence, leadership assessment, integration, and change management while maintaining business continuity and culture
Experience in a fast-paced, startup-like, sales-driven, food, distribution, logistics, trading, or supply-chain environment
Experience helping scale an organization through a major step-change in size, such as doubling or tripling headcount or supporting comparable revenue and complexity growth

Why Eggs Unlimited and Compensation & Benefits:

Join at the “second floor” of a hyper-growth company rapidly becoming a skyscraper – help build what comes next.
Outsized impact opportunity – building people, leadership, culture, & support continued expansion.
Partner closely with executive leadership to shape growth, talent, succession, culture, and organizational scale.
Help shape the people strategy of an entrepreneurial company growing aggressively.
Access meaningful advancement opportunities as the company continues to expand.
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Company-paid life and disability insurance.
401(k) with company match.
Generous PTO that increases annually.
Free daily lunch, snacks, and refreshments.
Base Pay: $175,000 - $250,000 annually

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