Human Resources Manager

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end recruitment for technical and non-technical roles.
• Manage job postings, candidate screening, interview coordination, assessments, and hiring documentation.
• Maintain employee records, contracts, onboarding documents, and HR policies.
• Support onboarding, probation tracking, confirmations, warnings, performance reviews, and exits.
• Coordinate payroll inputs, attendance, leave tracking, and employee status updates.
• Help implement performance management systems, KPIs, review cycles, and improvement plans.
• Ensure team members understand company expectations, conduct standards, and communication norms.
• Support employee engagement, conflict resolution, and internal communications.
• Maintain confidentiality across employee, compensation, disciplinary, and company matters.
• Ensure HR processes are structured, documented, and consistently followed.
  

Requirements:

• 4+ years of HR, people operations, recruitment, or talent management experience.
• Strong understanding of hiring, onboarding, performance management, documentation, and employee relations.
• Experience hiring technical talent is strongly preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication.
• Strong organization, follow-through, and attention to detail.
• Ability to work with confidential information professionally.
• Comfortable using tools like Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, Jira, Trello, ATS tools, or HR systems.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment.
• Good understanding of Nigerian employment practices.
• Experience supporting international, remote, startup, or technology teams is a strong advantage.

Must-haves:

• Strong written and verbal English communication.
• High professionalism and discretion.
• Excellent organization and attention to detail.
• Ability to work quickly and independently.
• Strong ownership and follow-through.
• Reliable internet, power backup, and work setup.
• Comfort working with remote teams and international clients.
• Ability to handle confidential information responsibly.
• Willingness to complete practical assessments during the hiring process.

Ideal Candidate:

• Is structured, disciplined, and proactive.
• Can enforce standards without being abrasive.
• Can identify hiring and performance issues early.
• Communicates clearly and professionally.
• Understands that BlueOcean needs high-performing talent, not just headcount.
• Can create HR order in a fast-moving startup environment.

Work Environment

• BlueOcean is fast-paced, demanding, and performance-driven.
• Internal support staff are expected to create order, improve execution, follow up consistently,  help the leadership team, and delivery teams operate at a high standard.