People Operations Generalist

Outset

$80K — $95K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-6 years of HR or People Operations experience
  • Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience
  • Experience in a rapidly growing organization
  • Knowledge of employee lifecycle stages
  • Understanding of HR compliance and employment practices
  • Exceptional communication skills for cross-level trust-building
  • Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
  • Resourceful and process-oriented mindset
  • Familiarity with HRIS and payroll tools, especially Rippling and Ashby

Responsibilities

  • Own and enhance People Operations processes throughout the employee lifecycle
  • Act as a trusted contact for employee inquiries and workplace issues
  • Provide guidance to managers on employee-relations tasks
  • Administer employee benefits, payroll, and HRIS processes
  • Update and maintain HR policies and employee handbook
  • Support performance management and talent processes
  • Utilize people data to analyze trends and improve processes
  • Identify and resolve manual processes for scalable solutions

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape employee experience in a growing company
  • Collaboration with a proactive and empathetic team
  • Engagement with multiple stakeholders across the organization
  • Chance to influence HR policies and processes directly
  • Development of analytical skills through people data utilization
Full Job Description
We9re looking for a proactive, people-first People Operations Generalist to help build and scale an exceptional employee experience. This role is ideal for someone with 3-6 years of progressive HR or People Operations experience who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, enjoys solving ambiguous problems, and can balance empathetic employee support with strong operational execution.

Responsibilities
  • Own and continuously improve core People Operations processes across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, employee data management, internal transfers, leaves, and employment changes.
  • Serve as a trusted point of contact for employees and managers on day-to-day people policies, workplace questions, and employee experience matters.
  • Partner with managers to provide practical guidance on basic employee-relations matters.
  • Help administer benefits, leave programs, payroll inputs, HRIS processes, and employee records, ensuring accuracy, confidentiality, and a positive employee experience.
  • Maintain and improve HR policies, employee handbook content, process documentation, templates, and internal people resources.
  • Assist with performance management and talent processes, including review cycles, goal-setting, calibration preparation, employee surveys, and engagement follow-up.
  • Use people data to identify trends, improve processes, and prepare recurring reports on headcount, attrition, hiring, engagement, and other people metrics.
  • Contribute to scaling the People function by identifying manual or unclear processes and building practical, repeatable solutions.

Qualifications
  • 3-6 years of experience in Human Resources, People Operations, HR Generalist, or a similar role.
  • Bachelor9s degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience working at a company during a period of rapid headcount growth or organizational change
  • Demonstrated experience supporting multiple stages of the employee lifecycle, such as onboarding, benefits, HRIS administration, employee relations, performance management, and offboarding.
  • Working knowledge of employment practices, HR compliance requirements, and employee-record confidentiality. Experience supporting multi-state or distributed workforces is a plus.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain policies clearly and build trust across levels of the organization.
  • Highly organized with strong attention to detail, follow-through, and comfort managing several priorities at once.
  • A hands-on, resourceful mindset: you are comfortable creating structure where none exists and improving processes as the company grows.
  • Experience with HRIS, applicant-tracking, payroll, and collaboration tools; familiarity with Rippling and Ashby a plus

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