People & Operations Manager

About the role You keep TAR running. This is the person who makes sure the office works, people get paid, travel gets booked, receipts get collected, and the thousand small things that would otherwise land on the founders' desks simply get handled. It spans real HR and payroll on one end and "we need someone to figure out the office party and order the standing desks" on the other. You are resourceful, organized, and impossible to fluster, and you take pride in being the reason everyone else can focus on building. As an early hire, you'll set up the systems a fast‑scaling company needs and grow into owning People and Operations as the team expands. Responsibilities Run day‑to‑day office operations: supplies, equipment, vendors, facilities, and the general "make the place work" function. Own payroll and core HR: onboarding and offboarding, benefits administration, PTO, employment paperwork, and basic compliance. Manage travel: book flights, hotels, and logistics for the team and for site trips to West Texas. Own expenses: collect and organize receipts, track and reconcile spend, and keep things clean for the finance team. Plan and run team events, offsites, the office party, and anything that keeps culture strong as we grow. Be the catch‑all for the random and urgent: if something needs doing and has no obvious owner, you pick it up and close it out. Set up and improve the lightweight systems and tools (HR, payroll, expense, scheduling) a scaling company needs, replacing duct tape with process as you go. Support the founders and leadership with scheduling and ad hoc operational needs. Qualifications 3+ years in office management, people operations, HR, executive support, or a generalist startup operations role. Hands‑on experience running payroll and basic HR administration. Highly organized, detail‑oriented, and able to juggle many small things without dropping any. Resourceful and self‑directed. You find the answer or the vendor or the workaround yourself. Strong communicator who's comfortable being the connective tissue across a busy team. Discreet and trustworthy with sensitive payroll, HR, and financial information. Preferred Experience standing up HR/payroll/expense systems at an early‑stage company. Familiarity with tools like a modern HRIS/payroll platform and an expense system. Bookkeeping or finance‑adjacent experience. Comfort in a fast, scrappy, first‑of‑a‑kind environment where the role will keep changing. Salary and Benefits Total compensation: $65-100K/year. Base salary: $55‑90K. Equity: $10K/year at TAR's most recent valuation. Unlimited PTO. Health, Dental, Vision insurance. $1K monthly stipend for meals. #J-18808-Ljbffr Tar