Senior People Operations Specialist

Location: Austin, Texas, United States; hybrid work with four days per week in the Austin office

Company

hirify.global is a voice-first communication platform using push-to-talk technology to connect deskless workers, first responders, and teams.

What you will do

• Own semi-monthly multi-state U.S. payroll, benefits, 401(k) administration, leaves of absence, HRIS administration, and employee lifecycle operations.
• Manage HRIS workflows, configuration, reporting, data integrity, and appropriate accuracy and confidentiality controls.
• Use AI and automation to improve at least five recurring processes and reduce manual work by 10+ hours per month.
• Coordinate employment registrations, filings, I-9/E-Verify, immigration cases with outside counsel, international employment administration, and operational risk resolution.
• Evaluate and help implement the next HRIS/payroll platform, coordinating plans, milestones, Finance, IT, and external partners.
• Improve onboarding, employee self-service, performance reviews, compensation cycles, and other recurring People programs while documenting at least 90% of recurring processes.

Requirements

• Meaningful hands-on People Operations experience with independent ownership of multi-state U.S. payroll, benefits, and HR systems.
• Strong analytical and detail-oriented approach, including spreadsheets, reconciliations, complex data, error controls, and issue resolution.
• Ability to establish priorities, anticipate challenges, build plans, make recommendations, and drive initiatives through completion independently.
• Experience improving or automating recurring processes and using technology while validating automated outputs.
• Ability to navigate compliance requirements, ambiguity, competing priorities, and operational judgment.
• Comfort with hands-on People Operations in a growing environment and an individual contributor role.
• This is not an HR business partner or people management role; manager coaching, employee relations, and people management are outside the current scope.
• Four days per week in the Austin office are required; this is not a remote role.

Nice to have

• Experience leading an HRIS or payroll implementation.
• Experience coordinating immigration, international employment, or complex leaves.
• Experience building AI-enabled workflows or employee self-service tools.
• Experience improving onboarding or employee programs.
• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct collaboration with the VP of People and autonomy to rebuild and improve People Operations systems.
• Investment in AI, automation, and improved technology, with ownership over operational evolution.
• Competitive pay, equity with significant upside, benefits designed to support healthy and balanced employees, flexible schedules, and time off.
• Sabbatical available after every five years of service.
• Collaborative Austin-based office environment with snacks and recreational facilities.

Hiring process

• All hiring correspondence comes from the hirify.global.com email domain; hirify.global will never request bank account information, checks, or other sensitive information during hiring.