People Ops Lead: Remote Culture & Experience

Alts Digital; Portugal; Remote; EUR 20,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Workation

Madeira house access

Flexible vacation days

Health insurance

Learning budget

Co-working allowance

Job summary

Alts Digital, a Portugal-based remote-first group, is seeking a People Operations Lead to own the employee experience as we scale. You will design processes that keep teams connected, supported, and engaged across time zones.

From onboarding to offboarding, compensation reviews, contracts, benefits, leave, and HR data, you’ll safeguard records in Humaans, ensure Portuguese labor-law compliance, and drive automated, data-informed people programs.

Qualifications

• 3+ years HR or People Ops experience in Portugal or Portuguese-based companies.
• Degree in Human Resources, Work Psychology or similar.
• Solid knowledge of Portuguese labor law.
• Comfortable using AI daily (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) to automate HR tasks.
• Recruitment and sourcing experience for niche, hard-to-find profiles.
• Experience working in startups or scale-ups is a plus.
• Proficient with HRIS platforms (Humaans).
• Fluent in English and Portuguese.

Responsibilities

• Own core People Ops processes to improve employee experience.
• Manage onboarding, offboarding, compensation reviews, contracts, benefits and leaves.
• Maintain confidential employee records in HRIS (Humaans).
• Ensure adherence to Portuguese labor laws and internal docs.
• Coordinate business travel logistics (flights, accommodation, itineraries).
• Serve as first point of contact for employees and managers.
• Coordinate full-cycle recruitment processes.
• Support engagement surveys, performance cycles and L&D initiatives.
• Collaborate on employer branding and plan team events like Workation.
• Identify inefficiencies and implement streamlined People Ops processes; drive automation and analytics.

Skills

3+ years HR experience Portugal

Fluent English

Fluent Portuguese

AI daily use for HR tasks

Recruitment experience

Startup/scale-up experience

HRIS (Humaans)

Education

Degree in HR or Work Psychology

Tools

Humaans HRIS

Job description

Alts Digital, a Portugal-based remote-first group, is seeking a People Operations Lead to own the employee experience as we scale. You will design processes that keep teams connected, supported, and engaged across time zones.

From onboarding to offboarding, compensation reviews, contracts, benefits, leave, and HR data, you’ll safeguard records in Humaans, ensure Portuguese labor-law compliance, and drive automated, data-informed people programs.