People Operations Manager (US)

Your Role
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).

What to Expect
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.

What You Bring
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.