People Operations Manager
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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
About fonio
Vienna-based AI customer-communication platform serving SMBs with 24/7 phone and messaging agents.
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