People Operations Manager

• You own everything after a candidate signs, from contracts through offboarding, and automate as much of it as possible. We are looking for someone to build the structural backbone to enable rapid scaling.
• 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).
• Solo, end-to-end ownership of everything people operations.
• Hands-on operational work to build the foundation for automation/scaling.
• Direct impact: your work has immediate influence on the culture of fonio.
• Flat hierarchies: close collaboration across departments.
• 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.

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