Your impact:

• Onboarding & Offboarding: Design and implement onboarding processes for new hires, ensuring a seamless and positive introduction to our culture and operations. Onboarding is a critical juncture that shapes perspectives and sets expectations; this will be a primary responsibility of this position to ensure we’re building a bigger and better ramp for new team members to "snowball" down and launch their Kikoff journey from. Manage the offboarding process to ensure a smooth transition for departing employees.
• Benefits & Compensation: Administer employee benefits programs, ensuring timely enrollments and addressing employee queries. Manage a compensation structure, benchmarking against industry standards and best practices.
• Payroll: Partner with a PEO to oversee payroll processes, ensuring accurate and timely processing, and compliance with tax and other regulatory requirements.
• Performance Management: Design and manage performance review cycles. Train managers on performance evaluation techniques and best practices. Analyze performance data to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Compliance & Reporting: Prepare and manage all HR-related compliance reports. Keep abreast of the latest labor law changes and ensure the company remains compliant, especially as we surpass the 100 employee milestone.
• Organizational Structure: Partner with hiring managers to develop and maintain an effective job structure, including creating and updating job descriptions, job grading, and role hierarchies.
• Employee Relations: Address any HR-related concerns or disputes, fostering a positive work environment and promoting our company culture.
• Training & Development: Collaborate with department leaders to identify training needs and facilitate relevant training and development programs.
• HR Analytics: Collect, analyze, and present HR metrics to inform decision-making. Offer strategic insights based on HR analytics, advocating for data-backed solutions.
• Employee Engagement: Design and implement initiatives to gauge and improve employee morale, satisfaction, and retention.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Promote and integrate diversity and inclusion best practices into our company culture and recruitment processes.
• Office Manager: As someone who owns the employee experience, you’ll wear a

Your background:

• Competitive academic or extracurricular achievement, e.g. a degree from a selective school or strong college athletics
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in management consulting or People Operations at a tech company or startup. Proven experience in onboarding, payroll management, and benefits administration. Prior experience owning and implementing a more mature onboarding experience is a big plus.
• Proficiency with data analysis in spreadsheets (pivot tables, index match functions) and HRIS systems.
• Demonstrated ability to make objective, data-backed decisions, avoiding emotional biases.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to turn data into actionable insights.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to actively listen and interact with employees at all levels.
• Experience in planning or chairing social activities- Strong sense of optimism and understanding of human psychology and the impact drivers in a work setting
• High ethical standards and integrity, ensuring confidentiality and privacy in all HR matters.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment.