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fonio GmbH; Wien; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Relocation support

Daily lunch and dinner

Equipment of your choice

Regular team off-sites

On-site in Vienna

Job summary

fonio GmbH in Vienna is seeking a People Ops professional to own end-to-end people operations, from contracts and onboarding to offboarding and development.

You will drive HR tooling and automation, manage payroll processes for all teams, and support international hiring while ensuring Austrian labor law compliance. This role offers equity, relocation support, and a people-first culture, with daily meals and on-site collaboration.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in People Ops, HR, or Operations.
• Knowledge of Austrian labor law, payroll, and collective agreements.
• Structured, hands-on working style.
• AI and automation/workflow skills.
• German native, strong English.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of people operations (contracts & onboarding, equipment, accounts, workspace, relocation).
• Own HR tooling & automation; introduce and manage an HRIS tool; automate workflows.
• Oversee payroll processes and internal payroll for all sales teams.
• Support compliance & people-legal topics (international hiring, time-tracking, collective agreements).
• Manage compensation bands across teams/countries.
• Organize events and culture activities (hackathons, off-sites).
• Handle offboarding of employees.
• Support later people development (feedback, L&D, career development).

Skills

People Ops

HR automation

German

English

Austrian law

Job description

Your Role

• 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).

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 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.

What We Offer

• €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

Hiring Process

• 15 min intro call
• 30 min skill interview
• 20 min culture fit with the founders