People Operations Lead - High-Growth Tech & Aerospace

Katalyst Space Technologies; Broomfield (CO); Presencial; USD 90.000 - 135.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Stock options

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k)

Unlimited PTO

Catered lunches

Resumo da vaga

Katalyst Space Technologies is hiring a hands-on HR leader to own the employee lifecycle, onboarding, and employee support in a fast-growing environment in Colorado. You’ll advise managers on performance, policy interpretation, and people decisions while maintaining confidentiality and compliance across multi-state teams.

With strong experience in HRIS, payroll, benefits, and an ability to scale programs, you’ll build practical policies, partner with cross-functional leaders, and drive a

Qualificações

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in HR, business, organizational psychology, employment relations, or related fields.
• Rising responsibility in HR, People Operations, HRBP or generalist roles in high-growth tech environments.
• Experience handling employee relations, performance concerns, coaching, policy interpretation, documentation, and sensitive workplace situations.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. employment practices and compliance, with judment to escalate when needed.
• Experience building onboarding, leave, performance management, promotions, compensation changes, offboarding, and HR documentation.
• Ability to influence managers and executives with practical options and sound judgment.
• Strong written and verbal communication, discretion, and handling confidential information.
• Comfort working hands-on in a fast-paced environment between strategic questions and admin execution.
• Ability to comply with confidentiality, export-control, employment-law, and data requirements.

Responsabilidades

• Own day-to-day HR across the employee lifecycle, onboarding, changes, leave and accommodations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to managers on employee relations, performance, feedback, team dynamics, policy interpretation, and difficult decisions.
• Build and improve practical HR programs, policies, and operating rhythms that scale with a high-growth company.
• Lead employee relations matters from initial concern through investigation, documentation, recommendation, and resolution.
• Own or oversee HRIS and people-data integrity, ensuring records, job changes, compensation updates, leave info, reporting, and documentation are accurate.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition, Finance, IT, Security, Payroll, Benefits, and leaders to coordinate hiring, onboarding, changes, planning and departures.
• Develop manager resources and lightweight training around feedback, performance expectations, onboarding, leave, relations, and other core duties.
• Support compensation, promotions, performance-review, engagement, workforce planning and organizational design processes with data and recommendations.
• Identify people risks and recurring friction points, building repeatable solutions to improve experience and compliance.

Conhecimentos

HR leadership

Employee relations

Policy interpretation

Communication skills

Confidentiality handling

Multi-state compliance

Strategic advisory

Formação

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Ferramentas

Rippling

Benefits administration

Payroll coordination

Performance systems

Employee-data reporting

HR process documentation

Descrição da vaga

Katalyst Space Technologies is hiring a hands-on HR leader to own the employee lifecycle, onboarding, and employee support in a fast-growing environment in Colorado. You’ll advise managers on performance, policy interpretation, and people decisions while maintaining confidentiality and compliance across multi-state teams.

With strong experience in HRIS, payroll, benefits, and an ability to scale programs, you’ll build practical policies, partner with cross-functional leaders, and drive a