People Ops Lead: Payroll & HRIS (Hybrid Milan)

Lexroom.ai; Lombardia; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary €55,000–65,000 gross per year

Hybrid work in Milan HQ (3 days)

Job summary

Lexroom.ai in Milan, Italy is seeking a People Operations Team Lead to own global People Operations across all countries we operate in. This hybrid role combines payroll management, HRIS governance, and employee lifecycle administration with a focus on automation and data quality.

You will build scalable processes, lead a small team of specialists, and partner with Finance to ensure compliant, timely payroll close.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in HR or People Operations, owning end‑to‑end processes including the Italian employment framework.
• Hands‑on experience running payroll through external providers: month‑end close, controls, reconciliations and provider management.
• Experience owning an HRIS and connecting it to payroll (HiBob with JetHR, PayFit, Deel).
• A track record of automating HR processes, with concrete AI use cases you can walk us through.
• Fluent Italian and English.

Responsibilities

• Make payroll accurate and reliable in every country: manage and, when needed, replace local providers and own the monthly close (calendar, cut‑offs, pre‑ and post‑run checks, reconciliation with Finance).
• Own our HRIS (HiBob) as our single source of truth, and its connection to payroll in every country.
• Run the employee lifecycle, benefits and ESOP administration across all markets we operate in.
• Keep each country compliant: map risks, decide what to fix first and track to closure.
• Design processes and data with measurement in mind, and use AI to remove manual work.
• Lead and grow the team.

Skills

Payroll management

HR operations

HRIS integration

Process automation

Bilingual Italian/English

Tools

HiBob

JetHR

PayFit

Deel

Job description

Lexroom.ai in Milan, Italy is seeking a People Operations Team Lead to own global People Operations across all countries we operate in. This hybrid role combines payroll management, HRIS governance, and employee lifecycle administration with a focus on automation and data quality.

You will build scalable processes, lead a small team of specialists, and partner with Finance to ensure compliant, timely payroll close.