Manager of People Operations

This is not a coordinator role and it is not a ticket-closing role. You'll spend your time designing how work gets done, not doing the work itself wherever an agent can do it instead. You'll own the operational engine across People Ops, with a meaningful TA overlay (forecasting, reporting, data integrity) and benefits ownership embedded in the role. You'll be measured on how much of that engine runs without human intervention.

About The Role

• Architect and continuously improve the end-to-end People Ops and TA operational stack, embedding AI agents and agentic workflows as the default execution layer across onboarding, offboarding, employee lifecycle changes, and the recruiting funnel.
• Design and deploy AI agents to own routine operational work end-to-end, including onboarding task orchestration, compliance documentation, offer letter generation, interview scheduling, and tier-1 employee queries.
• Use AI to manage and monitor multi-country HR compliance across our six operating regions, building agentic checks that flag risk, surface regulatory changes, and keep our entity-level obligations current without manual tracking.
• Build AI-powered reporting and analytics across the People and TA function, producing real-time dashboards, hiring funnel insights, and operational health metrics that the VP of People and pillar leads can act on without requesting them.
• Run our HRIS, ATS, and broader People tech stack as an integrated, AI-augmented system, evaluating new tools through the lens of agent-readiness and API-first design rather than feature lists.
• Use AI to support the TA function with a focus on pipeline forecasting, recruiting data integrity, and funnel reporting, partnering with hiring managers to embed AI into how they track and interpret hiring data.
• Own benefits administration and vendor management across our US entity, using AI to streamline open enrollment, automate eligibility tracking, and surface utilization insights that inform future benefits strategy.
• Leverage AI to deliver a seamless, high-quality employee experience at scale, anticipating friction points across the lifecycle and deploying agents or workflows to resolve them before they become tickets.
• Drive AI-led process documentation and knowledge management across People Ops, ensuring every workflow is documented in a way that is both human-readable and agent-executable.
• Partner with Finance, IT, and Legal using AI-augmented workflows for cross-functional operations, including headcount planning, system access provisioning, and contract and policy management.
• Coach and uplift the broader People team on AI fluency, agent design, and operational automation, modeling what an AI-forward People Ops function looks like in practice.
• Own AI governance for the People function, ensuring our use of agents and AI tools is compliant, ethical, and aligned with how we handle sensitive employee and candidate data globally.

About You!

• 5+ years of progressive experience across People Operations or HR Ops, with at least some leadership or team lead experience.
• Prior SaaS or high-growth tech experience is essential. You unde