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Demonstrates expertise in People Operations, including systems architecture, automation, and AI integration, while effectively leading teams through high-growth transitions. Proficient in designing frameworks and managing complex employee relations and compliance.
Highest-signal resume keywords
People Operations LeadershipSystems Architecture ThinkingAI Tools ProficiencyProject Management Tools ProficiencyAutomation Development
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 and develop a team of two: Senior Talent Acquisition Manager and People Operations Manager
- Architect the next version of People Operations for the AI era
- Design the People Operations architecture, systems, tools and data flows across entities
- Build and govern People Operations AI agents and automations, including data-access guardrails
- Create frameworks and playbooks enabling managers to run people processes independently
- Own career paths, levels, promotion policy, compensation principles, learning and development, performance, engagement and promotion cycles
- Own people data, engagement measurement and reporting for leadership decisions
- Set the function's operating model, workforce plan, initiative breakdown standards, SLAs and KPIs
- Maintain payroll, recruitment operations and compliance during the rebuild
- Map manual administrative steps and prioritize automation
- Design how Rippling, Remote and Ashby work together
- Personally build and fix workflows, automations and agents
- Run the function's weekly cadence and coach the team
- Handle complex employee relations and global compliance cases with Legal
- Own calibration, promotion and exit decisions across the function
- Partner with the CEO, Finance, Legal and department leaders on people priorities, payroll, headcount planning, compensation, levelling, org design and hiring
- Deliver 90-day, 6-month and 12-month operational and transformation outcomes
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 a systems or process transformation 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 can run themselves
- Ability to thrive with ambiguity
- AI tools proficiency
- Project Management & Communication Tools proficiency, including Slack, Jira and Confluence
- Full permanent work rights
- Willingness to work from the Sydney office at least 2 days per week
- If not based in Sydney, willingness to relocate within 3 months of the start date
- 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
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Hard Skills
People Operations ManagementAutomation DevelopmentFramework WritingEmployee Lifecycle ManagementData AnalysisCompliance ManagementPerformance MeasurementEngagement MeasurementPayroll ManagementTalent Acquisition
Soft Skills
CommunicationTeam LeadershipProblem-SolvingAdaptabilityCoaching
Tools & Technologies
SlackJiraConfluenceRipplingRemoteAshbyZapierAirtableClaudeClaude Code
Industry Keywords
High-Growth TransitionScale-Up ExperienceEmployee RelationsGlobal PayrollHRIS