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People Operations Manager (US)

fonio· 4. People
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New York$70k - $150kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Role responsible for end-to-end people operations, from contracts to offboarding, with a focus on building scalable HR foundations, automation, and culture in a fast-growing startup.

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, 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 US labor law, payroll, and collective agreements.
  • Structured, hands-on working style.
  • AI and automation/workflow skills.
  • People-first, low ego. You thrive under intensity.
  • Strong English skills.

Skills

Required:People OperationsUS labor lawHRISPayroll
Nice to have:Automation/AI

Benefits

  • $70,000–$150,000 salary depending on experience + Equity
  • Hardware of your choice
  • Regular team offsites
  • Paid relocation to Vienna for approximately two months
  • Work from our New York office with an ambitious team
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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