People Operations Manager
New York City$110k - $140kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Role focused on building and maintaining the core of People Operations (payroll, benefits, HRIS, compliance) for a fast-growing, regulation-driven startup in New York.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day payroll administration for 120+ employees across multiple states, including employee changes, deductions, taxes, reimbursements, and payroll audits
- Partner with Finance on payroll reconciliation, reporting, and reimbursements
- Review employee tax withholdings and payroll tax calculations for accuracy
- Own benefits administration, including enrollments, qualifying life events, terminations, COBRA, HSA, and 401(k)
- Support benefits renewals, open enrollment, audits, and vendor implementations
- Own the administration and optimization of Rippling and other People systems
- Build and maintain automated workflows across onboarding, offboarding, payroll, benefits, compliance, and employee changes
- Maintain accurate employee data, personnel records, and required documentation
- Find manual processes and systematically automate or improve them
Qualifications
- 3–6 years of People or HR Operations experience, ideally in a highly regulated industry, with hands-on multi-state payroll and benefits administration
- Strong HRIS and payroll expertise. Rippling experience is strongly preferred
- Detail-oriented, systems-minded, and responsive, and comfortable owning recurring operational work end to end
Skills
Required:Payroll administrationBenefits administrationHRIS (Rippling preferred)
Nice to have:Automation / process improvement
Benefits
- Base salary $110k – $140k
- Meaningful equity for every employee
- 100% health premiums covered
- 99% dental & vision covered
- 401(k) with 4% company match
- HSA + $1,080 annual company contribution
- $50/monthly company contribution to employee transit
- $27/day lunch stipend when working from the NYC office
- $35/day dinner stipend when working from the NYC office after 6:30pm
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Novig
America's #1 Sports Prediction Market
Novig is a sports prediction market that eliminates the need for traditional sportsbooks by creating a two-sided marketplace. We do this by enabling users to trade directly against friends or the market, rather than against the house, making the betting experience more efficient, fair, and, most importantly, profitable.
fintechmarketplacesports-techgaming
More open roles at Novig
- Product Data Analyst5d agoNew York, NY · Analytics
- Senior Backend Engineer, Core Trading Systems1w agoHybrid (New York, NY) · Engineering
- Growth Operations Coordinator3w agoNew York City, NY · Operations
- Affiliate GTM Lead3w agoNew York, NY · Operations
- IT Specialist4w agoNew York City · Operations