Melissa Salcius

Vice President Human Resources

Fictiv

Jan 2026 - Current (8 months)

Vice President, People leading enterprise-wide talent and organizational strategy across the U.S., Mexico, India, and China. As a member of the executive leadership team, responsible for aligning global people strategy with long-term business growth — shaping organizational design, executive development, total rewards philosophy, succession planning, and cross-border operating models. Scope expanded from functional leadership to enterprise influence, including: • Advising C-suite and board stakeholders on talent strategy and organizational health • Leading global workforce planning and structural transformation initiatives • Driving unified performance and compensation architecture across regions • Building leadership pipelines and succes

Senior Human Resources Director (Global)

Fictiv

Jan 2023 - Dec 2025 (3 years)

Senior Director, People Team leading global talent strategy across the U.S., Mexico, India, and China in a digital-first, distributed environment. Leading global people team of 15. Partnered closely with executive leadership to translate business strategy into scalable people systems — including organizational design, global workforce planning, performance management, total rewards, and succession planning. Led cross-regional initiatives to drive consistency across geographies while respecting local regulatory and cultural nuance. Focused on: • Aligning performance and compensation frameworks globally • Building leadership capability across multi-country teams • Driving clarity and accountability during growth and change • Strengthening e

Human Resources Director

Fictiv

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022 (2 years)

Global strategic leader and partner to the business who oversees all areas of the global People Operations team. Focused on partnering with leadership to align our people strategy to driving business results as we scale and defining "How we work"

HR Manager

Rancher Labs

Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 (2 years 1 month)

Built the start-up organization's HR department from the ground up and managed a full spectrum of HR operations. Reported directly to the CEO, overseeing all HR functions at both the routine and strategic level, supporting 250 employees across 14 different countries. • Directed all national and international recruiting efforts and managed employee relations, performance management, compensation, systems improvement, employee engagement, organizational development, and compliance. • Played a crucial role in business expansion by developing an HR infrastructure to support growing employment from 85 employees to 250 employees in 18 months. • Managed the maturation of an employee stock ownership plan, including collaborating with outside counse

HR Manager

Emplicity

Dec 2017 - Jan 2019 (1 year 2 months)

Emplicity is a human resources outsourcing company, handling human resources consulting, payroll, workers compensation, benefit administration and risk management services for our client companies. We handle both Professional Employer Organization (PEO) services and Administrative Service Organization Services (ASO). • Provide leadership and direction to HR operations by developing and directing policies, programs, services and procedures that ensure compliance, engagement and staff development. • Manage employee relations issues at all levels within the organization through counseling, mediating and resolving disputes, coordinating and documenting investigations of complaints and action taken supporting risk assessment management. • Work w

Human Resources Consultant

Emplicity

Aug 2014 - Jan 2019 (4 years 6 months)

• Provide startegic business solutions to a portfolio clients while developing meaningful partnerships and creating a shared vision of continued growth and profitability. • Emphases in the reduction or elimination of Company's legal exposure in employment related issues. • Conduct audits, provide action plans and implement solutions to improve processes while maintaining compliance with local, state and federal regulations. • Responsible for investigating routine to complex reported or suspected workplace concerns, and developing and implementing remedial measures and/or compliance recommendations. • Provide day-to-day performance management guidance to business leaders (coaching, counseling, career development and disciplinary actions).

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Human Resources Consultant

HR Betty

Sep 2012 - Aug 2014 (2 years)

HR Betty is an off site Human Resource solution for companies, handling human resources consulting, payroll, workers compensation, benefit administration and risk management services for our client companies. We handle both Professional Employer Organization (PEO) services and Administrative Service Organization Services (ASO). • Strategically worked with decision makers to establish HR strategies that ensured alignment with key business goals and overall organization strategies, while minimizing liability for clients. • Partnered with supervisors and managers to understand key business challenges and organization needs and delivering programs to meet these needs. • Improved employee involvement through the creation and implementation of pr

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