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People Operations Manager

fonio
Vienna, USA
Full-time
Manager
Onsite
EUR 65000-80000 / year
Discovered 1 months ago

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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 (EU and non-EU), 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 Austrian labor law, payroll, and collective agreements
  • Structured, hands-on working style.
  • AI and automation/workflow skills.
  • People-first, low ego. You thrive under intensity.
  • German native, strong English.

What We Offer

€65,000 to €80,000

Equity

Relocation support

Daily lunch and dinner

Equipment of your choice

Regular team off-sites

On-site in Vienna, working directly with the core-team

Hiring Process

15 min intro call

30 min skill interview

20 min culture fit with the founders

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