People Operations Manager (Spain)

fonio; Barcelona; Sur place; EUR 65 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Relocation support

Daily lunch and dinner

Equipment of your choice

Regular team off-sites

On-site in Barcelona

Résumé du poste

fonio is seeking a People Operations lead to own end-to-end processes from contracts to offboarding. You will drive automation and scale the workforce across international teams in a fast-growing startup environment.

Responsibilities include HR tooling, payroll, compliance, compensation, events, and later people development. Expect hands-on work and direct impact on culture, with relocation support and on-site work in Barcelona.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of People Ops, HR or Operations experience, ideally at a startup or scale-up.
• Knowledge of Spanish labor law, payroll and collective agreements.
• Structured, hands-on working style.
• AI and automation/workflow skills are a plus.
• People-first, low ego; thrives under intensity.
• Strong English skills.

Responsabilités

• Contracts & onboarding: manage employment contracts for all employees, organize equipment, accounts, spaces, and 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 calculations for all sales teams.
• Compliance & people legal: support international hiring (EU and non-EU), time-tracking, collective agreements, international taxation topics.
• 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).

Connaissances

People Operations

English proficiency

Spanish labor law knowledge

Automation / workflows

Structured, hands-on

Description du poste

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.

• 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 Spanish labor law, payroll, and collective agreements

• Structured, hands-on working style.

• AI and automation/workflow skills.

• People-first, low ego. You thrive under intensity.

• Strong English skills.

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 Barcelona, working directly with the core-team

Hiring Process

1. 20 min intro call

2. 30 min skill interview

3. 20 min culture call