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People Operations Lead

MatX
Mountain View, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/9/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/7/2025

MatX is on a mission to make the world's best AI models run as efficiently as possible, bringing the world years ahead in AI quality and availability. We are looking for our first People Operations Lead to bring their passion for scaling organizations and cultures to MatX to enable our continued growth.

We are seeking an experienced HR leader with a background spanning employee relations, learning and development, total rewards, compliance, organizational design and talent acquisition and retention. We are looking for someone who is passionate about growing teams effectively and efficiently through people resources as well as systems and processes. A leader with experience working in a fast-paced start-up environment is likely positioned best for success in this role. This leader will be expected to apply best practices as well as try out new approaches in solving the opportunities that arise for our growing team.

Responsibilities Include :

  • This role will provide leadership for our HR-related operations providing direction, support and enabling employee success while increasing the team's proficiency in employee relations, HR-related compliance, immigration, benefits operations and other core operations responsibilities.
  • Administration and management of our HRIS system, development of a strategy to maximize the tool for our organization as we scale and generate reports that inform leadership and help the business operate effectively.
  • Guide the employee experience from talent acquisition and onboarding to ongoing employee engagement, retention and development.
  • Collaborate with the founders, the broader executive team and Ops team on the total rewards for the company as well as their delivery (e.g., benadmin and annual open enrollment, payroll management).
  • Reinforce and help evolve the culture of the company so that all team members from all backgrounds can do their best work now and in the future.
  • Engage in the development, maintenance and communication employee policies and procedures to ensure appropriate legal compliance and alignment to the way MatX likes to work.
  • Act as the primary conduit from various external sources to MatX in staying current with, understanding and appropriately deploying policies and procedures that keep our company compliant with local, state and federal regulations.
  • Offer support and guidance to managers and Operations team to help resolve employee relations needs.
  • As the company continues to grow, you will engage in additional business endeavors that align with that stage of company and size of the team at the time, advising the executive team and Ops on timing and implementation strategy.
  • This leader will be a strong voice in furthering the culture MatX in our physical office, in the way we interact with each other and via our asynchronous or virtual work interactions.

Preferred Background :

  • SHRM-SCP, SPHR certified with 5-8 years of work experience in HR / People Operations; experience managing employees preferred
  • Strong written and verbal communication and a sense for when communication is needed, which form of communication will be most effective and the best tone and language for the messaging to best inform team members or HR-related outside vendors.
  • Experience managing external talent acquisition consultants (e.g., agencies, executive recruiters, etc).
  • Proficient in driving effective talent acquisition processes that generate both positive hiring team and candidate experiences.
  • Creative problem solving, resolving challenges compliantly, thoughtfully and in a way that supports employee and company shared success.
  • Strong organizational, prioritization and self-management skills with the ability to prioritize deliverables for others (individuals and teams).
  • Experience managing open enrollment, broker relationships, benefits administration and employee onboarding.
  • Keen ability to tie metrics, financials and performance outcomes to organizational design concepts, corporate communication and applications of systems and tools providing company-wide support.
  • Prior success working in high growth environments, preferably in tech.
  • Sound judgment with the ability to maintain confidentiality, employ tact and care such that trust is developed and sustained.
  • Bias to action, on-time delivery and quality of deliverables.
  • Engaging coach - capable of partnering with all employees to help solve challenges, address opportunities and keep the business and team members moving forward.
  • Compensation based on California Bay Area Market : $190,000 - $240,000 equity 401(k) and health, vision, and dental benefits

    As part of our dedication to the diversity of our team and our focus on creating an inviting and inclusive work experience, MatX is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital / domestic partner status, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.

    In addition, we will consider remote candidates - all candidates should be eligible to work in the United States. Candidates residing in the California Bay Area should expect to work from our offices in Mountain View Tuesday-Thursdays.

    Salary : $190,000 - $240,000

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