People Operations Lead — Remote & AI-Driven HR
GitGuardian
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Job summary
GitGuardian, a Paris-based cybersecurity scale-up, seeks an experienced HR Operations Specialist to own personnel administration, payroll and onboarding across Europe and the US. You will ensure data integrity in HRIS and drive automation in HR workflows.
You will collaborate with People and Finance teams, manage onboarding from start to finish, and contribute to benefits reviews and data improvements. Fluency in English and French is essential.
Qualifications
- 2–5 years in HR operations in a fast-paced environment including French payroll
- Experience with Payfit, Lucca and an EOR platform such as Deel
- Fluent in English and French; day-to-day work in English
Responsibilities
- Personnel administration: contracts, onboarding paperwork, leave tracking and compliance; Payfit/Deel/Lucca expertise
- Payroll: prepare and check monthly payroll inputs for France and international population
- Onboarding and employee experience: manage onboarding journey from preboarding to ramp-up and collect feedback for improvements
- HR tools and automation: streamline processes, automate recurring workflows and test AI solutions
- HR projects: support benefits reviews, HRIS improvements and data quality initiatives
Skills
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Job description
GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity scale-up. The company is based in Paris, New-York City, Boston.
Our early investors include Scott Chacon, co-founder of GitHub, and Solomon Hykes, co-founder of Docker, alongside leading US and European VC firms. We raised our Series C in early 2026.
GitGuardian leads the way in securing the credential layer, helping organizations protect the secrets that let code, machines, and AI agents access systems with broad detection, identity context, and remediation at scale. Already trusted by 600K+ developers worldwide and by 50 of the Fortune 500!
The People team owns the full employee lifecycle and translates company strategy into hiring, performance and development plans, across Europe and the US.
Our current EMEA People Operations Specialist is moving into an HRBP role, so we are looking for the person who will take over her scope and make it their own.
You will be the person Guardians turn to for anything touching their contract, payroll, benefits or first days at the company. You will also be the one the People team relies on to keep our HR data clean and our processes running month after month.
This is a hands-on role with real room to build. Beyond the day-to-day administration, you will own the onboarding journey end to end and help us push automation and AI further into our HR workflows.
You will be part of our 8-people team, reporting directly to the Chief People Officer, and you will work closely with the People and Finance teams.
Your main responsibilities will be:
Personnel administration: contracts, onboarding paperwork, medical visit coordination, health insurance, leave tracking and compliance. You will become our in-house expert on Payfit, Deel and our HRIS, Lucca.
Payroll: prepare and check the monthly payroll inputs for France and for our international population, and keep employee data consistent across every tool.
Onboarding and employee experience: own the onboarding journey from preboarding to ramp-up, prepare welcome packs, run onboarding sessions, and turn new hire feedback into concrete improvements.
HR tools and automation: streamline internal processes, automate recurring workflows such as onboarding, reminders and approvals, and test AI solutions where they save the team real time.
HR projects: contribute to the team's projects, from benefits reviews and compliance topics to HRIS improvements (work council, onboarding, data improvement in HRIS and more).
If you think you match at least 70% of these criteria, please apply!
Here's what we consider essential for success in this role:
2 to 5 years in HR operations in a fast-paced environment, including French payroll on Payfit, HRIS administration on Lucca, and an EOR platform such as Deel, ideally for a company under the Syntec collective agreement.
Fluent in English and French, and used to working in English day to day.
Detail-oriented and organized, able to run several topics at once without dropping any.
Discreet with confidential information and genuinely warm with people: this job is equal parts rigor and People care.
A high level of initiative: you spot what is broken and fix it rather than wait to be asked.
The following skills would strengthen your application but aren't required:
A good grasp of tech startup dynamics, ideally through a period of strong headcount growth.
Comfort with spreadsheets and reporting (pivot tables, nested IFs, IMPORTRANGE).
Hands-on experience with AI and automation tools such as Dust, Claude Cowork or n8n, and the wish to push further.
A word from the manager, Gregory, our Chief People Officer: "People Ops is often described as the back office of HR. We see it the other way around. It is the first thing a new Guardian experiences, and the thing everyone notices the day it stops working. So we are not looking for someone to run the process as it is today. We are giving this role the room and the tools, including AI and automation, to redesign how we work. If you would rather fix something once than repeat it every month, you will enjoy it here."
Career path: evolution to more seniority, learning US Ops, and possibly, after 2 to 3 years, an HRBP or Learning and Development role.
At GitGuardian, we are committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce.
We will ask for your gender on the application page to help us understand the diversity of our applicant pool and to track our progress in attracting and hiring a diverse workforce. The information is optional and will not be disclosed to the hiring manager or the interview team and will not be considered in the hiring process. We appreciate your willingness to share this with us so that we can continue to improve our diversity and inclusion efforts.
1. Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member
To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.
2. Interview with your manager and Chief People Officer
To know more about yourself and your achievements, and present to you the team.
3. Case study with Chief People Officer and one HR member
To evaluate your skills for the position and project yourself into the role.
4.1 Final interview with the CEO
To detail our company’s vision and ambitions for the next couple of years.
4.2 References check
You can start thinking about two contacts who can attest to your previous or current professional experiences. These contacts should be as recent as possible, and we will call them at the end of the process.
💰 Package that includes stock-options
🍜 Sponsored lunch voucher (Swile)
👟 Sponsored Wellpass (gymlib)
🏥 Non-charged health insurance for children (Sidecare / Generali)
💻 Up to €300 to improve your home office set-up
🌴 Yearly holiday allowance
🎡 Team building: monthly budget dedicated to each employee that you can spend as you wish, with colleagues (latest examples to date: Michelin star restaurant, karaoke, stand-up show, kitesurfing week-end, ...)
And also...
🏡 Remote policy: hybrid (3 days/week at the office in Paris)
🤖 Full, company-wide access to cutting-edge AI tools to stay ahead of the curve
📈 Opportunities for career development in the long term
🤝 Referral bonus of 4000€ for any new Guardian we might hire thanks to you
Products
Understand how GitGuardian works in this short video!
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Check out the State of Secrets Sprawl Report to understand our mission and the industry.
Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the n°1 app on the GitHub marketplace 🔥
Clients
GitGuardian helps organizations find exposed sensitive information that could often lead to tens of millions of dollars in potential damage.
More than 70% of our customers are in the United States.
Many F500 companies use GitGuardian's platform.
People
The Guardians are knowledgeable, committed, serious, aligned with the company’s mission, and true team players: always willing to help each other grow our skill sets!
The team is diverse and we hail from more than 20 different countries.
We are also agile, remote-friendly, and fun people to work with.
You will get trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development.
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