Remote LatAm HR Operations Lead for Global Compliance

WorkMotion; Colombia; Remote; COP 82,711,000 - 101,092,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global remote team

Well-Being Day

Gym membership discount

Training & Development Allowance

Annual team meetups

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

WorkMotion is seeking an HR Operations Manager to build and scale HR for new entities starting in Colombia and expanding to Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. You will launch employer registrations, payroll, and compliance in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.

You will collaborate with Legal, Payroll, Benefits and Ops teams, craft local templates and policies, and ensure documentation and processes scale across borders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in HR operations or HR compliance across several countries.
• Experience moving employees between employers, including seniority and severance.
• Translate legal opinions into working HR processes and know when to escalate.
• Manage payroll, benefits, and immigration vendors and run multi-country projects.
• Write clear, practical HR process guides.
• Native Spanish and fluent English (C1).

Responsibilities

• Shape the HR side of each new entity from kick-off with Infrastructure and Legal.
• Get employer registrations live with Payroll, including social security, tax, pension, health and work injury insurance.
• Build local-language contract templates, file work rules, handbooks and policies, and contract benefits.
• Lead go-live: run the final readiness check and first onboardings and payroll line by line.
• Own each live entity's HR compliance and day-to-day HR Operations for your cluster.
• Write and maintain process documentation, including external articles with Knowledge team.

Skills

HR operations

HR compliance

Payroll management

Vendors management

Multinational experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

HRIS

No-code automation

Job description

WorkMotion is seeking an HR Operations Manager to build and scale HR for new entities starting in Colombia and expanding to Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. You will launch employer registrations, payroll, and compliance in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.

You will collaborate with Legal, Payroll, Benefits and Ops teams, craft local templates and policies, and ensure documentation and processes scale across borders.