AI Summary
We are looking for a Senior People Operations Manager to build the structural backbone for rapid scaling. This role involves managing employment contracts, HR tooling, payroll, compliance, and compensation. The ideal candidate has 1+ year of People Ops, HR, or Operations experience and knowledge of Austrian labor law.
Key Highlights
Manage employment contracts
HR tooling and automation
Payroll
Compliance and people legal
Compensation
Events and culture
Offboarding
People development
Key Responsibilities
Manage employment contracts for all employees
Organize equipment, accounts, workspaces, and support relocation of international colleagues
Introduce and own an HRIS tool, automate workflows across systems
Organize and own internal payroll processes, including variable compensation calculation of all sales teams
Support international hiring (EU and non-EU), time-tracking, collective agreements, international taxation topics, etc.
Manage and monitor compensation bands across teams/countries
Organize internal and external events (hackathons, off-sites, etc.)
Manage offboarding of employees
Design feedback cycles, L&D, career development (e.g. SDR academy)
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
€65,000 to €80,000
Equity
Relocation support
Daily lunch and dinner
Equipment of your choice
Regular team off-sites
Job Description
We build AI voice agents for small and medium-sized businesses so they never miss a call and can focus on the work they actually love.
Our AI handles every call automatically. But voice is just the beginning. Our vision: to build the world's first fully automated CRM.
8,000+ customers. >€5M ARR. ~30% monthly growth. Target until EOY: €30M.
We live ownership: you own your work end-to-end. No politics, few meetings, direct feedback.
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. 12 months ago, we were 5 people, now we are 50, next year we will be 300.
- 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 (EU and non-EU), 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).
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- 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.
- 1+ year of People Ops, HR, or Operations experience, ideally startup or scale-up.
- Knowledge about Austrian labor law, payroll, and collective agreements
- Structured, hands-on working style.
- AI and automation/workflow skills.
- People-first, low ego. You thrive under intensity.
- German native, strong English.
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- €65,000 to €80,000
- Equity
- Relocation support
- Daily lunch and dinner
- Equipment of your choice
- Regular team off-sites
- On-site in Vienna, working directly with the core-team
- 15 min intro call
- 30 min skill interview
- 20 min culture fit with the founders
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