First HR Generalist - Build People Ops from Scratch (SF)

Omen AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Omen AI in San Francisco is seeking its first HR hire to build and scale the HR function from the ground up, ensuring every new hire is onboarded smoothly and set up for success from day one.

You will own compliance, benefits administration, onboarding/offboarding, and HRIS management, shaping processes and policies as the company rapidly grows while partnering with founders and hiring managers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as an HR generalist or people operations generalist, ideally at a startup or a small team.
• Hands-on generalist work across onboarding, benefits, employee relations and compliance, not just coordination.
• You want to be the first HR person and build from scratch, not run someone else’s playbook.
• Judgment with sensitive situations, and knowing when to bring in employment counsel.
• Organized, and you keep process simple enough that people actually use it.
• Comfortable at a startup where priorities change week to week.

Responsibilities

• Build/Improve onboarding and offboarding so every new hire is set up and productive from day one
• Run our HR system of record: people data, PTO and documents in one place
• Run benefits administration and open enrollment with our broker and payroll provider
• Own compliance: California and multi-state employment rules, I-9s, required postings and trainings
• Be the go-to for employee questions and employee relations, including hard conversations and investigations
• Build simple, repeatable processes for offers, promotions, leaves and departures
• Partner with the founders and hiring managers as the team scales

Skills

HR generalist experience

Onboarding

Benefits administration

Employee relations

Compliance

I-9s

Education

SHRM-CP or PHR

Tools

Rippling

Gusto

Justworks

Job description

Omen AI in San Francisco is seeking its first HR hire to build and scale the HR function from the ground up, ensuring every new hire is onboarded smoothly and set up for success from day one.

You will own compliance, benefits administration, onboarding/offboarding, and HRIS management, shaping processes and policies as the company rapidly grows while partnering with founders and hiring managers.