People Operations Manager (US)

About fonio

We grew from $1M to $10M ARR in under 12 months and now serve 10000 customers.

Fonio is Europes market leader for AI phone agents for SMBs. Now were expanding globally and into new products.

We move fast take ownership give direct feedback and avoid politics and unnecessary meetings.

Join one of worlds fastest-growing companies .

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 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 US labor law payroll and collective agreements

• Structured hands-on working style.

• AI and automation/workflow skills.

• People-first low ego. You thrive under intensity.

• Strong English skills.

What We Offer

• $70000$150000 salary depending on experience Equity

• Hardware of your choice

• Regular team offsites

• Paid relocation to Vienna for approximately two months

• Work from our New York office with an ambitious team

Hiring Process

1. 20 min intro call

2. 30 min skill interview

3. 20 min culture call

Required Experience:

Manager