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Founding People Operations Partner

Percepta· Operations
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New York City$180k - $240kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Founding People Operations Partner to help build Percepta's internal people systems, processes, and operational engine for onboarding, payroll, and support at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain integrations between People, Finance, Legal, and IT to ensure single source of truth for employee data
  • Own HRIS and related People systems: configuration, permissions, fields, workflows, reporting
  • Design, document, and run core People workflows (onboarding, visa transfers, role and compensation changes, performance management, leaves, offboarding)
  • Be the go-to person for system issues, vendor support, and access requests
  • Own onboarding activities (background checks, immigration support, I-9 verification, work authorization, equipment provisioning, access provisioning)
  • Administer payroll and benefits through PEO
  • Maintain accurate employee records and audit trails
  • Handle offboarding with care
  • Ensure compliance across new states/jurisdictions, postings, notices, filings, and policy updates
  • Build reporting systems for leadership on headcount, hiring, and People function needs
  • Act as operational partner to Head of People and primary contact for employee questions on policy, benefits, systems, and processes
  • Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to drive initiatives
  • Maintain up-to-date People Ops knowledge base and documentation

Qualifications

  • At least 5-7+ years in People Operations or HR Operations in a high-growth environment
  • Experience procuring, implementing, and maintaining an HRIS or adjacent People systems
  • Experience administering US employment practices, payroll and benefits, and compliance obligations
  • Bonus: experience with a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) or transitioning from a PEO to in-house
  • Exceptional attention to detail and follow-through
  • Strong data instincts, proficient with spreadsheets, able to build clean reports
  • Clear communicator with ability to handle confidential information
  • Bias toward automation and interest in AI tooling and lightweight automation
  • Comfort with ambiguity and unbuilt processes, ability to write the first version of processes
  • Interest in contributing to in-office culture in NYC

Skills

Required:HRIS administrationPayroll & benefits administrationData analysis & reportingCompliance & HR policyProcess design & documentation

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity
  • 401(k) matching
  • Comprehensive health and family benefits
  • Lunch provided daily
  • Autonomy-focused, outcome-driven culture
  • Office-first but flexible outcomes-driven environment
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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