Operations & People Systems Lead for a Fast-Growth Startup

Sagetap; United States; On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (Early-stage)

401(k) and healthcare benefits

Direct access to leadership

Ownership in building product

Job summary

Sagetap is seeking an Operations Associate to join a brand-new Operations function, reporting to our leadership team. You’ll own the execution layer across people operations, hiring, compliance, IT, legal administration, and culture.

We are a small, fast-moving team. In your first six months you’ll onboard new hires, coordinate an on-site, help stand up our SOC 2 program, and build scalable systems for a 20-person company.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience in business operations, people operations, or a similar startup generalist role.
• Exceptional organization and follow-through.
• Strong written communication skills.
• Comfort with ambiguity and bias toward action.
• Fluency with modern work tools and openness to using AI to move faster.
• Discretion with sensitive and confidential information.

Responsibilities

• Manage vendors, insurance, and recurring obligations with documentation and renewals.
• Keep contracts moving: sending, tracking, and filing for signatures; monitor expirations.
• Own equipment and the SaaS stack: procure, ship, track, and inventory licenses.
• Handle day-to-day people operations: onboarding/offboarding, HR admin in Justworks, recruiting coordination, performance reviews.
• Support SOC 2 Type 2 program: collect control evidence, run access reviews, security training, maintain docs.
• Organize events: book venues, travel, logistics for on-sites and all-hands, manage recognition and swag.
• Close the loop on action items: capture commitments, write SOPs, prepare data for reviews.
• Take ownership of unassigned work; decide what becomes a process vs. one-off.

Skills

Organization

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools proficiency

Judgment & discretion

Tools

Google Workspace

Slack

Notion

AI tooling

Job description

Sagetap is seeking an Operations Associate to join a brand-new Operations function, reporting to our leadership team. You’ll own the execution layer across people operations, hiring, compliance, IT, legal administration, and culture.

We are a small, fast-moving team. In your first six months you’ll onboard new hires, coordinate an on-site, help stand up our SOC 2 program, and build scalable systems for a 20-person company.