3+ years of experience in People Ops, HR, or Operations, preferably in a startup or scale-up environment.
Strong knowledge of US labor law, payroll, and collective agreements.
Structured and hands-on working style.
Proficiency in AI and automation tools for workflow optimization.
People-first attitude with a low ego, thriving in high-intensity situations.
Fluent in English.
Responsibilities
Manage employment contracts and onboarding processes for all employees.
Introduce and oversee an HRIS tool to automate workflows.
Organize and manage internal payroll processes, including variable compensation for sales teams.
Support international hiring and compliance with labor laws and taxation.
Monitor and manage compensation bands across teams and countries.
Organize internal and external events to foster company culture.
Oversee the offboarding process for departing employees.
Benefits
Equity options in addition to salary.
Choice of hardware for work.
Regular team offsite events.
Paid relocation assistance to Vienna for approximately two months.
Opportunity to work from the New York office with a driven team.
Full Job Description
Your Role
You own everything after a candidate signs, from contracts through offboarding, and automate as much of it as possible. We are looking for someone to build the structural backbone to enable rapid scaling.
Contracts & onboarding: Manage employment contracts for all employees (direct and indirect employment), organize equipment, accounts, workspaces, and support relocation of international colleagues.
HR tooling & automation: introduce and own an HRIS tool, automate workflows across systems.
Payroll: Organize and own internal payroll processes, including variable compensation calculation of all sales teams.
Compliance & people legal: Support international hiring, time-tracking, collective agreements, international taxation topics, etc.
Compensation: Manage and monitor compensation bands across teams/countries.
Events & culture: Organize internal and external events (hackathons, off-sites, etc.)
Offboarding: Manage offboarding of employees.
Later, people development: Design feedback cycles, L&D, career development (e.g. SDR academy).
What to Expect
Solo, end-to-end ownership of everything people operations.
Hands-on operational work to build the foundation for automation/scaling.
Direct impact: your work has immediate influence on the culture of fonio.
Flat hierarchies: close collaboration across departments.
What You Bring
3+ year of People Ops, HR, or Operations experience, ideally startup or scale-up.
Knowledge about US labor law, payroll, and collective agreements
Structured, hands-on working style.
AI and automation/workflow skills.
People-first, low ego. You thrive under intensity.
Strong English skills.
What We Offer
$70,000-$150,000 salary depending on experience + Equity
Hardware of your choice
Regular team offsites
Paid relocation to Vienna for approximately two months
Work from our New York office with an ambitious team
