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.

What We Offer

• $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

Hiring Process

• 20 min intro call
• 30 min skill interview
• 20 min culture call