Senior HR Operations Specialist

Location: Hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA; work from the San Francisco office three full days per week and remotely on the remaining days, with sufficient overlap with the relevant team’s time zone.

Salary: $120,000–$180,000 base salary, depending on experience, skills, scope, and location.

Company

Generative AI company building AI-powered video creation products and next-generation creative tools for a global user base.

What you will do

• Manage complex employee lifecycle changes, including compensation updates, promotions, employment status changes, transfers, and organizational changes.
• Design scalable HR workflows, automations, permissions, reporting, dashboards, documentation, and system configurations.
• Maintain HR data integrity and audit employee information, payroll inputs, benefits records, and operational controls.
• Coordinate payroll, benefits administration, open enrollment, qualifying life events, eligibility changes, and vendor relationships.
• Support HR compliance, state registrations, international employee and contractor operations, and audit-ready records across multiple jurisdictions.
• Build HR playbooks, SOPs, ownership models, controls, and process improvements in partnership with HR, Finance, Legal, IT, managers, and external providers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in HR Operations, People Operations, or a similar role.
• Strong working knowledge of core U.S. HR operations, including payroll, benefits, onboarding and offboarding, employee changes, and compliance.
• Hands-on experience administering and improving an HRIS.
• Experience building or improving HR workflows rather than solely executing established processes.
• Strong systems orientation and comfort working with HR data, reporting, and automation.
• Exceptional attention to detail when working with payroll, compensation, benefits, and employee data.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to investigate issues, identify root causes, and drive resolution independently.
• Strong judgment and discretion when handling sensitive employee information.
• Comfort working in a fast-growing environment where processes are still being built.

Nice to have

• Experience with Rippling.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid schedule with three office days per week and remaining days worked remotely.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
• Stock option program and opportunities for professional growth.
• Work on ambitious AI products with an experienced, fast-moving, international team.