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Sitemate

Director of People Operations

Sitemate

. Own the People Operations function end-to-end, including global payroll, employee lifecycle, Talent Acquisition, IT provisioning and People programs .

Posted 10/3/2026full-timeSydney • AustraliaLead💰 A$160,000 - A$200,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in People Operations leadership, including designing systems architecture for automation and AI integration, while effectively managing talent acquisition, payroll, and compliance. Proven ability to create frameworks and playbooks that enhance operational efficiency and employee engagement.

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People Operations LeadershipSystems Architecture DesignAI Tools ProficiencyProject Management Tools ProficiencyAutomation Development

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Hard Skills
People Operations ManagementTalent AcquisitionPayroll ManagementEmployee Lifecycle ManagementFramework DevelopmentAutomation BuildingData AnalysisCompliance ManagementPerformance ManagementEngagement Measurement
Soft Skills
LeadershipCommunicationAdaptabilityCoachingProblem-Solving
Tools & Technologies
SlackJiraConfluenceRipplingRemoteAshbyZapierAirtableClaudeClaude Code
Industry Keywords
High-Growth Scale-UpEmployee RelationsGlobal ComplianceOrganizational DesignWorkforce Planning

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own the People Operations function end-to-end, including global payroll, employee lifecycle, Talent Acquisition, IT provisioning and People programs
  • Lead a team comprising a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager and a People Operations Manager
  • Architect the next version of People Operations for the AI era
  • Design the People Operations architecture across entities, systems, tools and data flows
  • Build and govern People Operations AI agents and automations, including data-access guardrails
  • Create frameworks and playbooks for managers
  • Own career paths, levels, promotion policy, compensation principles, learning and development, performance, engagement and promotion cycles
  • Establish people data, engagement measurement and confidential reporting systems
  • Set the function's operating model, workforce plan and initiative standards
  • Translate company strategy into People priorities and present synthesised options to the CEO
  • Partner with Finance on payroll, headcount planning, compensation benchmarking and levelling
  • Partner with Legal on employee relations and global compliance
  • Partner with department leaders on org design, levelling, compensation and hiring
  • Keep payroll, recruitment operations and compliance work running during the rebuild
  • Map manual administration and prioritise automation opportunities
  • Design and build People Operations systems, agents and automations
  • Turn People programs into self-serve playbooks
  • Set priorities, SLAs and responsibilities for the People Operations Manager
  • Personally build and fix workflows, automations and agents
  • Design how Rippling, Remote and Ashby work together
  • Run the function's weekly cadence
  • Coach the team and hold the hiring bar
  • Handle complex employee relations and compliance cases with Legal
  • Own calibration, promotion and exit decisions across the function
  • Deliver 90-day, 6-month and 12-month People Operations outcomes, including automation, payroll accuracy, self-service cycles, standardized promotion outcomes and succession readiness

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Operations or leadership experience, ideally through a comparable growth-stage transition
  • Experience leading People Operations through a high-growth, high-change period, ideally at a 100 to 300 person scale-up
  • Systems architecture thinking: designing how several platforms and their data work together so a process runs without manual admin
  • Hands-on experience building automations or AI agents yourself
  • Experience writing frameworks or playbooks that managers ran themselves
  • Ability to thrive with ambiguity
  • Essential AI tools proficiency
  • Essential Project Management & Communication Tools proficiency, including Slack, Jira and Confluence
  • Willingness to come to the Sydney office at least 2 days per week
  • If not based in Sydney, willingness to relocate within 3 months of start date
  • Full permanent work rights
  • Nice to have: Series B or growth-stage scale-up experience
  • Bonus tools: Zapier, Airtable or similar no-code automation; Rippling or comparable HRIS and global payroll platform; Remote or comparable employer of record platform; Ashby or comparable ATS; AI coding tools such as Claude and Claude Code

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equity
  • 20 days annual leave
  • Sick leave
  • Carer's leave
  • Compassionate leave
  • 16 weeks primary carer parental leave
  • 6 weeks secondary carer parental leave
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Learning and development budget
  • Home office setup
  • Weekly catered lunches
  • Work-from-anywhere weeks
  • Flex days
  • Full transparency: monthly all-hands share metrics, hiring plans and financial performance
  • Levels, career frameworks and pay ranges visible to every employee