People Systems and Automation Manager

Location: Remote; United States, New York, or Toronto

Company

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company building foundation models and end-to-end products for real-world business use.

What you will do

• Map and redesign existing People processes before automating them.
• Build workflows and automations across Rippling, Slack, Notion, and other HR and business tools.
• Own joiner, mover, and leaver processes, including internal mobility, promotions, transfers, manager changes, and entity changes.
• Improve coordination between People, IT, Finance, and Payroll.
• Remove manual handling, reduce employee and manager support requests, and measure hours, tickets, and errors eliminated.
• Create maintainable SOPs, runbooks, controls, and audit evidence for a growing organization.

Requirements

• Experience building People Operations or HR Systems at a fast-growing company, ideally through a period of rapid expansion.
• Experience with an HRIS implementation or migration.
• Hands-on experience building HR workflows and automations using triggers, conditions, integrations, failure modes, and edge cases.
• Experience operating across multiple countries and entities, including EOR or contractor populations.
• Ability to work across the full employee journey from hire through exit, learn new tools quickly, and document processes clearly.

Nice to have

• Experience with Rippling or its implementation.
• Experience with APIs, webhooks, or integration tooling.
• Experience with IPO readiness, SOC 2, or SOX preparation.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-friendly work with co-working support for employees away from an office.
• Six weeks of paid vacation and an annual company offsite.
• Health and dental benefits, mental health support, and parental leave top-up for up to six months.
• Lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency.
• Education and learning stipend, annual enrichment benefits, and a $500 home office stipend.
• RRSP matching, 401(k), and pension scheme options.