People Operations Coordinator

What You’ll Accomplish:

• Handle core recruiting coordination activities, including scheduling and managing logistics to ensure a seamless experience for both candidates and interviewers.
• Facilitate the onboarding process, including orientation scheduling, setting up employee access, and managing onboarding documents.
• Accurately add new hires and update employee information in the HRIS system.
• Own the completion of new hire paperwork, ensuring compliance with company policies and legal requirements.
• Support compliance initiatives by administering background checks and managing mandatory training, such as sexual harassment prevention and safety training.
• Collaborate with teammates in People, Operations & IT to implement new tech platforms for recruiting and human resources initiatives. 
• Track HR activities and assist in other HR projects to enhance employee experience and optimize processes.
• Spearhead new People initiatives to organize, document and distribute crucial organizational data.
• Own employee engagement activities in collaboration with the Operations & People team.
• Collaborate with your teammates to streamline and enhance HR processes and programs. Our team’s success depends on continuously improving and increasing efficiency.

Who You Are:

• Experienced: You have 2+ years of experience in a People Operations role within a high-growth environment, ideally at a startup.
• HR Fluent: You possess a strong grasp of HR operations, with knowledge spanning compliance tasks like administering background checks, handling employee paperwork, and data administration.
• Organized: You thrive in roles where details matter and can effectively manage multiple priorities.
• Recruiting Savvy: You have exposure to recruiting principles and best practices.
• Process-Driven: You create structure where others see disorganization. You excel at developing and communicating repeatable SOPs for yourself and your colleagues.
• Strong Communicator: Your verbal and written communication skills enable you to connect with people at all levels.
• Tech-first: You quickly master new technology and are skilled at explaining software to others. You have used a variety of HRIS & ATS tools. Experience with Lever, Lattice and JustWorks is a bonus!
• Proactive: You take initiative and enjoy learning new things to keep growing within HR. You have a bias towards action and continuously look for ways to support the organization.
• Ownership Mentality: You take extreme ownership of your role, approaching it like a founder, no matter who you report to.
• Creative Problem Solver: You know how to "draw the rest of the owl."
• Local: You live in the Greater Boston area and are excited to work out of our Cambridge office at least 3-4 days per week
• Value-Aligned: You may not see yourself as a 100% match for this ad, but it speaks to your personal and professional values.