The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Morgan Stanley is hiring a HR Director in Evanston, IL.

• Role description

  Morgan Stanley is seeking a HR Director to support Greenhouse, forecasting, and the strategic initiatives that define our next phase. Join Morgan Stanley as a freelance HR Director and take real ownership of Employee Relations work while earning $157,000 - $247,000 and growing your craft.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Set up the Evanston, IL team to make calls without waiting on you
  • Keep Morgan Stanley strategy legible to the people who have to execute it
  • Build the pricing logic that a freelance sales rep can explain in one breath
  • Keep the freelance partnership honest with numbers both sides accept
  • Forecast demand and align operational capacity accordingly
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into structured, solvable workstreams

  What You'll Bring

  • A documentation-first bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait
  • The kind of ownership that treats the company's money like your own
  • 10+ years navigating the politics that business work attracts
  • 12+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way
  • Hands-on Employee Relations experience that survives a whiteboard interview
  • Experience translating Payroll Administration complexity for a non-technical audience

  Growing steadily over 11 years, Morgan Stanley now leads deeply-bought-in innovation in the business market. New hires ship something real in week one, because we'd rather you learn by doing.

  Morgan Stanley rewards your unpretentious work with $157,000 - $247,000, equity participation, and mentorship from accomplished business leaders.

  We re-validated this opening today; Morgan Stanley is still on the lookout.

  The fastest way to learn more about this director role is to apply and ask us directly.

• Required skills

  • Employee Relations
  • Workday
  • Greenhouse
  • HR Analytics
  • Payroll Administration
  • Persuasion
  • Coaching

• Benefits & perks

  • Open source contribution time
  • Dry Cleaning
  • Basic life insurance
  • Summer Picnic
  • Annual learning stipend
  • Cost-of-living adjustments
  • Conference attendance budget
  • Corporate gym and entertainment discounts
  • Disability accommodations
  • Phantom stock plan
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Tenure-based rewards
  • Parental Leave
  • Free snacks and beverages
  • Phone Allowance

• Apply before 2026-12-07

  Submit your application for this Freelance business position.