The RoleYou will own the entire people function at Circadia, excluding recruiting - a solo operator running comp & benefits, the employee lifecycle, culture, compliance, and people systems for a workforce that spans office, clinical, and field staff across the US, UK, and Pakistan.
You'll start as a solo operator, and as Circadia scales you'll build out the People Operations function - designing the roadmap, making the case for headcount, and hiring and leading the team. You are the owner of how it feels to work here: the person employees naturally come to, and the person leadership relies on to keep a multi-state, multi-country company compliant and humane at the same time.
What You'll Own- Compensation & benefits: Comp band administration and offer calibration with Finance, benefits design and vendor management, payroll/benefits administration oversight through our PEO/HRIS stack, and equity administration coordination with Finance and Legal.
- Employee lifecycle: Onboarding, offboarding and terminations, performance management (review cycles, promotions, PIPs), and retention analysis.
- Culture & employee experience: Build genuine relationships across a distributed, multi-country workforce and keep a real pulse on what people are happy about, what they're not, and what we can do better - then act on it. Own culture programming and values reinforcement, the employee experience end to end, and the ombudsman channel (intake, triage, and escalation).
- Employee relations: Guide people and managers through the moments that matter - leaves, life events, hard conversations, exits - with discretion and judgment that protect both our people and the company. Run investigations with documentation discipline, partnering with counsel on serious matters.
- Compliance & policy: Own the handbook and people policies, multi-state wage/hour and classification compliance, leave management, and occupational health requirements for field and clinical staff. Coordinate immigration if sponsorship arises and oversee automated compliance training.
- International & distributed: UK employment (contracts, statutory benefits, local compliance or EOR), Pakistan employment/EOR management, and multi-state compliance as the field workforce grows.
- Manager enablement: Partner with our first-time managers on feedback, development, and retention - not just process training - so employees feel they're progressing and fairly assessed.
- Systems & data: Own the HRIS and people-tech stack - evaluate, implement, and replace systems as we scale - plus people data and reporting for leadership (headcount, attrition, org metrics), and continuous streamlining of HR workflows with modern tooling and AI.
Who You Are- High EQ and warmth. People naturally feel comfortable coming to you; you build trust quickly and at every level - office, clinical, and field.
- Operational rigor. You can take a program - onboarding, an immigration case, a leave process, an investigation - and run it cleanly from beginning to end without dropping details. You like building from scratch.
- Discretion by default. You handle confidential information thoughtfully and know what to share, with whom, and when.
- Comfortable enforcing policy. You can operate, communicate, and uphold policies consistently and fairly - not just write them.
- Independent operator, future builder. You exercise sound judgment without a team around you today - and you know how to design, hire, and lead the function as it grows.
What We're Looking For- 6-10 years of HR/People Operations experience with end-to-end ownership at a startup
- California employment compliance fluency, including leave management and termination practice
- Employee relations and investigations experience
- Benefits and payroll administration oversight experience
- Performance cycle ownership
- Compensation and leveling knowledge
- Ability to quickly learn, implement, and administer new HR systems - plus comfort using AI and modern tooling to streamline workflows
Especially Valuable- Working knowledge of UK and Pakistan employment practices
- Healthcare or healthtech industry experience
- HRIS or compliance-automation implementation experience (any platform)
- Familiarity with immigration processes (H-1B, green cards, TN visas)
- Learning & development instincts
$120,000 - $180,000 a year
As a full-time People Operations Lead, you will be employed by Circadia Health, Inc. The anticipated annual base salary range for this full-time position is $120,000 - $180,000. The base range is determined by role and level, and placement within the range will depend on a number of job-related factors, including but not limited to your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Annual salary is only one part of an employee's total compensation package at Circadia Health. We also offer:
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k)
- Competitive time off with pay policies including vacation, sick days, and company holidays
- Impact: your work will influence care decisions for tens of thousands of seniors every day.
- Culture: hard-working, mission-driven, and collaborative - with weekly and monthly social events like yoga, beach bonfires, and Wednesday/Friday team lunches.
