People Operations Specialist

Sagalegal; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation days

IT equipment

Travel reimbursement

Fully remote with Amsterdam hubs

Job summary

Saga is a fast-growing legal innovation company aiming to simplify the intersection of legal expertise and real-world impact. We are 85+ people across multiple countries, including the Netherlands, with a strong international presence and a fully remote setup complemented by hubs in Amsterdam.

As our People Operations Specialist, you’ll own day-to-day HR operations for Norway, the Netherlands, Turkey and remote colleagues, building processes, maintaining HRIS and ensuring compliance.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years in People & Culture, HR generalist or People operations role, startup/scaleup experience.
• Hands-on experience across onboarding, offboarding, HRIS and compliance.
• Experience writing HR policies and setting up processes where none existed before.
• Comfort with multi-country compliance in a highly distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Run day-to-day People operations and admin across the employee lifecycle (onboarding, offboarding, pay, performance discussions).
• Set up and maintain HRIS and ensure data accuracy and reporting.
• Ensure HR compliance across locations and write clear policies.

Skills

People operations

HR policy writing

Multi-country compliance

Automation with AI

Empathy & EQ

Startup/scaleup experience

Tools

HRIS

AI automation tools

Job description

Saga is a legal innovation company on a mission to remove the friction between legal expertise and real-world impact, so lawyers can focus on what matters the most: people, ethics, and impact. Founded in Norway and built for the legal profession from day one, we integrate with local legal sources across multiple jurisdictionsand are currently available in 12 languages. In just 18 months, we've grown to 85+ employees and 6,000+ users across 20+ countries - with market leadership in Norway and the Netherlands, and active expansion across Europe. We believe technology shouldn't replace legal reasoning, but strengthen it - so the law can work as it's meant to: aligned, accountable, and capable of delivering justice for everyone.

Your role as People Operations Specialist

Saga is around 85+ people and growing fast, which means more colleagues, more locations and more questions arriving at once. As our People Operations Specialist, you'll look after the day-to-day of People operations for our teams in Norway, the Netherlands, Turkey and our remote colleagues. We want to build a culture and people experience that truly enables each person to do the best work of their career, and be happy whilst doing it! Part of that is about ensuring a seamless experience for our teams, and you’ll play a vital role in making that happen – running onboarding that sets people up for success, supporting with our HRIS setup and maintenance to ensure accurate employee data, working closely with Payroll and Finance, and helping us stay compliant in each country we operate in. You'll work alongside our Head of People, together with the Talent Acquisition team and our Office Assistant. This is a standalone role today, so you'll have real influence over how these processes are built, not only how they're run.

What you’ll be doing

• Running day-to-day People operations and admin across the employee lifecycle - onboarding, offboarding, pay processes and performance conversations - so the experience feels consistent wherever someone sits

• Setting up and maintaining our HRIS, keeping employee data accurate and reporting dependable

• Looking after HR compliance across various locations, and writing the policies that keep expectations clear

• Supporting in embedding People processes into everyday practice – whether that’s ensuring a regular feedback rhythm internally, enabling communication, collaboration and connection across teams and locations, or collaborating with Payroll and Finance on anything touching pay, you’ll ensure that People Operations happens with ease

• Ensuring unified experience for office-based and remote colleagues – we want our culture and values to be felt by every member of Team Saga, and you contribution will be essential to creating that consistent experience

What you bring to our team

You're a professional who thrives in fast-paced environments. You know how to build processes, structures and you care about people. You also bring:

• Relevant experience of 2-5 years in a People & Culture, HR generalist or People operations role, ideally within a startup or scaleup

• Hands-on experience executing People operations across many areas of our employee experience: onboarding, offboarding, HRIS and compliance.

• Experience writing HR policies and setting up processes where none existed before

• Saga is growing fast with a highly distributed team, so comfort with multi-country compliance, or the diligence and curiosity to work it out carefully

• A people-first approach - empathy, emotional intelligence, and a habit of assuming positive intent

• Experience implementing automation solutions to reduce workload and build better workflows, especially using AI

Why join Saga

Saga is a fast-growing legal innovation company on a mission to remove the friction between legal expertise and real-world impact - and we're just getting started. We're a team of lawyers, engineers, and builders spread across multiple countries and continents, bringing a genuinely international perspective to everything we do. If you thrive in a flat, high-ownership environment where you're building from the ground up, this is the place for you. We also offer:

• A gross annual salary of €40,000–€55,000, depending on experience

• A range of benefits that support you in your role: paid vacation days, IT equipment, travel reimbursement

• Direct impact from day one: your work helps build Saga’s P&C policies and structures

• Space to experiment and build, with the support to make it work

• A fully remote setup with flexibility to work from home and our hubs in Amsterdam

• Be part of a team of legal professionals building the future of legal work

• An English-first, international working environment with strong Norwegian roots and a growing European presence

Our process

If this sounds like the kind of work you want to own, we'd love to meet you.