Human Resource Director - Cannabis Company

🌱👥 Director of Human Resources & Talent Development
📍 Location: West Bloomfield, MI (Onsite Required)
📊 Reports To: Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time | Leadership

🧠 About DACUT

DACUT is a vertically integrated cannabis company operating across retail, cultivation, manufacturing, and distribution, with multiple locations and a rapidly expanding footprint.

As we enter our next phase of growth, we are investing heavily in people, leadership, training, and workforce systems to build a scalable, high-performing organization.

🎯 About the Role

DACUT is seeking a Director of Human Resources & Talent Development to own and scale our recruiting, training, workforce development, and performance systems across the organization.

This is a hands-on, operational leadership role responsible for ensuring all locations are:

• ✅ Fully staffed

• 🎓 Well trained

• 👔 Led by strong managers

• ⚙️ Supported by scalable, repeatable systems

You will build the people engine that enables us to:

• Hire 40–50+ employees simultaneously for new store openings

• Reduce turnover across frontline and leadership roles

• Improve performance and accountability

• Develop a strong internal bench of future leaders

✅ Key Responsibilities

🔍 Talent Acquisition & Workforce Scaling

• Build and operate a high-volume, high-quality recruiting engine across all departments

• Support rapid hiring for new store openings and expansion initiatives

• Improve time-to-hire and candidate quality

🎓 Training, Onboarding & Development

• Design and implement world-class onboarding and training programs for:

  • Retail

  • Cultivation

  • Manufacturing

  • Distribution

• Establish clear role expectations, training paths, and career progression

• Build leadership development programs for supervisors, managers, and directors

📈 Performance & Accountability

• Implement performance management systems, KPIs, and accountability frameworks

• Drive consistency in expectations, evaluations, and development plans

• Reduce early-stage turnover through better training and support

🤝 Executive & Financial Partnership

• Partner with executive leadership to:

  • Strengthen organizational structure

  • Improve management effectiveness

  • Clarify roles and responsibilities

• Work closely with the CFO on:

  • Workforce planning

  • Compensation strategy

  • Headcount discipline and labor efficiency

🎯 What Success Looks Like

• Locations are consistently and proactively fully staffed

• Faster, higher-quality hiring for new stores

• Strong onboarding that reduces early turnover

• Clear training paths for all major roles

• A deep bench of capable supervisors and managers

• A stable, scalable, high-performing organization

🛠️ Ideal Background

• Senior HR / People / Talent leadership experience in:

  • Retail

  • Manufacturing

  • Distribution

  • Operations-heavy environments

• Proven success with:

  • High-volume hiring

  • High-turnover, frontline workforces

  • Multi-site operations

• Experience building:

  • Training programs

  • Onboarding systems

  • Performance management frameworks

• Regulated industry experience (preferred)

• Strong business, operational, and financial acumen

⭐ The Leader We’re Looking For

• High standards with low tolerance for chaos

• Practical, hands-on, execution-focused

• Data-driven and operationally minded

• Comfortable building systems from scratch

• Strong partner to finance and operations

🚀 Why This Role Matters

This role directly impacts:

• Staffing stability

• Training quality

• Leadership strength

• Turnover reduction

• DACUT’s ability to scale smoothly and profitably