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People Operations Lead
Gamma
San Francisco, UAE
Full Time
Lead
Remote
4 weeks ago
People OperationsHRIS ImplementationEmployee Lifecycle ManagementPerformance ManagementHR ComplianceBenefits Administration
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About the Role
Gamma is seeking a People Operations Lead to build the operational backbone of the People function, including HRIS, employee lifecycle, performance infrastructure, compliance, and benefits.
Key Skills for This Role
People OperationsHRIS ImplementationEmployee Lifecycle ManagementPerformance ManagementHR ComplianceBenefits Administration
Responsibilities
- Evaluate our current people tech stack end to end: assess HRIS options, identify gaps and redundancies, and make a recommendation on what we implement as we scale
- Own the implementation of the selected HRIS across payroll, IT, onboarding, reporting, and employee records
- Continuously optimize our broader people tech stack with a bias toward automation, AI powered workflows, and low friction tools
- Own our employee data infrastructure, reporting, and analytics, and use AI to move from reactive reporting to proactive insights
- Build internal tools and automations (using AI, Zapier, scripts, whatever works) that give managers self service access to the information and workflows they need
- Design and run a world class onboarding experience from offer accept through first 90 days
- Own off boarding end to end clean, compliant, and thoughtful
- Build scalable processes for a distributed, international workforce with a strong default toward automation over headcount
- Stand up and run our performance review cycles from system configuration to manager calibration
- Build the infrastructure for ongoing coaching and performance management (frameworks, templates, manager guidance)
- Serve as the day to day people partner for functional leads and people managers
Requirements
- 6 9+ years of experience, with meaningful time in People Ops or HR at a high growth tech company
- Comfortable in ambiguity you figure things out without a lot of hand holding
- Operationally rigorous and detail oriented, but knows when to ship 80% and iterate
- Experience evaluating and selecting HRIS platforms (Rippling, Workday, BambooHR, etc.) you've led a selection process, not just inherited a system
- You've built processes from scratch not just inherited and maintained them
- Strong enough with data to build your own reports and spot what matters
- You move fast with new tools, especially AI
- Low tolerance for repetitive manual work. Your instinct is to automate
- You prefer building to maintaining, and you're energized by the idea of being the first person in this seat
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About The Role
- Gamma is one of the fastest growing AI companies in the world profitable, ~100 people, and one of four top features on the Forbes AI 50 in 2026.
- We're building the platform that's replacing static slides with a new medium for presenting ideas, and millions of people already use it every week.
- This role is about creating the operational backbone that makes Gamma feel like a great place to work at every stage of the employee lifecycle, anywhere in the world.
- We're an AI company, and we expect our internal operations to reflect that.
- You'll own the operational core of the People function: our HRIS and people systems, employee lifecycle (onboarding through off boarding), performance infrastructure, compliance, benefits, and employee data.
- This is the first dedicated People Ops hire at Gamma.
What You'll Do Systems & Infrastructure
- Evaluate our current people tech stack end to end: assess HRIS options, identify gaps and redundancies, and make a recommendation on what we implement as we scale.
- Own the implementation of the selected HRIS across payroll, IT, onboarding, reporting, and employee records.
- Continuously optimize our broader people tech stack with a bias toward automation, AI powered workflows, and low friction tools.
- Own our employee data infrastructure, reporting, and analytics, and use AI to move from reactive reporting to proactive insights.
- Build internal tools and automations (using AI, Zapier, scripts, whatever works) that give managers self service access to the information and workflows they need.
What You'll Do Employee Lifecycle
- Design and run a world class onboarding experience from offer accept through first 90 days leveraging AI to personalize the experience and reduce the manual coordination load.
- Own off boarding end to end clean, compliant, and thoughtful.
- Build scalable processes for a distributed, international workforce with a strong default toward automation over headcount.
What You'll Do Performance & Development
- Stand up and run our performance review cycles from system configuration to manager calibration.
- Build the infrastructure for ongoing coaching and performance management (frameworks, templates, manager guidance).
- Partner with managers on employee development conversations and performance concerns.
What You'll Do People Partnering
- Serve as the day to day people partner for functional leads and people managers attending team meetings, advising on org health, flagging risks early.
- Help managers become better managers through lightweight coaching and just in time support.
- The Head of People holds the direct partnership with the CEO and co founders; you'll partner with the broader leadership team and support managers across the org.
What You'll Bring
- 6 9+ years of experience, with meaningful time in People Ops or HR at a high growth tech company.
- Comfortable in ambiguity you figure things out without a lot of hand holding.
- Operationally rigorous and detail oriented, but knows when to ship 80% and iterate.
- Experience evaluating and selecting HRIS platforms (Rippling, Workday, BambooHR, etc.) you've led a selection process, not just inherited a system.
- You've built processes from scratch not just inherited and maintained them.
- Strong enough with data to build your own reports and spot what matters.
- You move fast with new tools, especially AI.
- Low tolerance for repetitive manual work. Your instinct is to automate, and you have the resourcefulness to do it yourself.
- You prefer building to maintaining, and you're energized (not daunted) by the idea of being the first person in this seat.
Compensation Range
- The base salary for this full time position, which spans multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $200K $250K plus benefits & equity.
Workplace
- Our team has a strong in office culture and works in person 4–5 days per week in San Francisco.
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