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People Operations Manager

fonio· 4. People
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Vienna€65k - €80kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

We build AI voice agents for small and medium-sized businesses and seek a People Operations Manager to own everything after a candidate signs, build the backbone for rapid scaling, automate processes, and drive HR operations end-to-end.

Responsibilities

  • Contracts & onboarding: Manage employment contracts for all employees (direct and indirect employment), organize equipment, accounts, workspaces, and support relocation of international colleagues.
  • HR tooling & automation: introduce and own an HRIS tool, automate workflows across systems.
  • Payroll: Organize and own internal payroll processes, including variable compensation calculation of all sales teams.
  • Compliance & people legal: Support international hiring (EU and non-EU), time-tracking, collective agreements, international taxation topics, etc.
  • Compensation: Manage and monitor compensation bands across teams/countries.
  • Events & culture: Organize internal and external events (hackathons, off-sites, etc.).
  • Offboarding: Manage offboarding of employees.
  • Later, people development: Design feedback cycles, L&D, career development (e.g. SDR academy).

Qualifications

  • 3+ year of People Ops, HR, or Operations experience, ideally startup or scale-up.
  • Knowledge about Austrian labor law, payroll, and collective agreements
  • Structured, hands-on working style.
  • AI and automation/workflow skills.
  • People-first, low ego. You thrive under intensity.
  • German native, strong English.

Skills

Required:People OperationsAustrian labor lawHRISPayrollAutomation / WorkflowGerman

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Relocation support
  • Daily lunch and dinner
  • Equipment of your choice
  • Regular team off-sites
  • On-site in Vienna, working directly with the core-team
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About fonio

AI calls made easy

Our AI phone assistant takes your calls around the clock, just like human staff. 100% GDPR-compliant & designed for German-language calls.

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