People Operations Manager

Insider, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Growth Opportunities

Innovative Work Environment

Job summary

A pioneering AI finance firm based in New York seeks its first People Operations team member. This role involves enhancing the onboarding experience, managing performance review cycles, and overseeing HR systems like Rippling. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in HR Operations and strong project management skills. This is a unique opportunity to shape the employee experience in a rapidly growing environment, helping the company attract and retain top talent.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in People Operations, HR Operations, and program management.
• Demonstrated success in designing and executing structured processes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve onboarding experience for new hires.
• Drive execution of performance review cycles.
• Manage engagement survey delivery and communications.
• Own management of HR tech stack focused around Rippling.
• Maintain compliance with employment requirements.

Skills

People Operations

HR Operations

Project Management

Communication

Attention to Detail

Tools

Rippling

Job description

Why Rogo

At Rogo, we are building Wall Street's first true AI analyst. Our mission is to empower finance professionals at the world’s top investment banks, private equity funds, and investment firms with AI that delivers unparalleled speed, accuracy, and insight. We are not just improving financial workflows; we are redefining them from the ground up.

This is a unique opportunity to join a generational company at a key inflection point. With a rapidly growing client base, proven product-market fit, and backing from world-class investors, we are scaling quickly and defining a new category of enterprise AI.

Our team is sharp, motivated, and deeply committed to the mission. We operate with intensity, take ownership of complex problems, and stay relentlessly focused on our users. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, demand excellence, and want to help build the future of finance, we invite you to join us.

The Role

We’re looking to hire our first People Operations team member at Rogo to support the planning, execution, and ongoing management of our key People programs throughout the employee lifecycle. This is an exciting opportunity to help build the foundation of the employee experience as we scale, helping to attract, retain, and grow top talent. This role will report to the Chief of Staff at the time of hire but will roll up to a Head of People in the near future.

What You’ll Own

People Programs & Processes

• New Hire Onboarding: Own and evolve our onboarding experience, prioritizing personalization, clarity, and scalability so new hires feel set up for success and internal tasks are managed efficiently.

• Performance Review Cycles: Drive the execution of performance review cycles, designing for effectiveness and scale, and ensuring deadlines are met, and team members are equipped with guidance and resources.

• Surveys: Manage engagement survey delivery and communications; ability to interpret results and draw insights is a plus.

• People Tools & Systems: Own the management of our HR tech stack, currently centered around Rippling PEO. Support evaluation, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of People systems, automations, and integrations.

• People Data Management: Build and manage workflows for tracking people changes throughout the year – promotions, role changes, offboarding, etc. – ensuring our systems and processes are always up-to-date and accurate.

Benefits & Compliance

• Benefits Admin: Lead management of our benefits programs through our PEO, ensuring a smooth and accurate employee experience.

• HR Compliance: Maintain compliance with applicable employment requirements, policies, and documentation, escalating complex matters as needed.

Culture & Community

• Employee Engagement & Connection: Evolve and own our engagement activities to create meaningful opportunities for connection and recognition.

• Internal Communication & Resources: Manage the employee Wiki and employee guides, and build communication plans for people programs, ensuring the team is informed and supported.

People Manager Support & Resources

• Serve as a People Ops partner to people managers, providing guidance on performance conversations, feedback, and day-to-day people management questions.

• Develop and maintain clear manager resources, templates, and documentation to support consistent management practices.

Team & Collaboration

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Legal, Recruiting, and Leadership on projects, policies, and operational improvements.

• Lead ad hoc projects in support of the People function as needs arise.

What You’ll Bring

Experience & Skills

• 5+ years of experience in People Operations, HR Operations, and program management.

• Demonstrated success in designing and executing structured processes and programs with minimal direction.

• Strong project management skills – capable of running multi-stakeholder initiatives end-to‑end.

• Experience owning HR systems and tools, with strong comfort managing workflows and automations (experience with Rippling highly preferred).

• Attention to detail and discretion in handling sensitive information.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with polished presentation of ideas and processes.

• High emotional intelligence – self‑aware, empathetic, and effective in collaboration.

• Bias toward action – you find answers, solve problems independently, and adapt quickly.

Who You Are

• You thrive in fast-paced environments. You are high-intensity and care a lot about what you do, and you're ecstatic to work at a startup.

• You are ambitious. You have fun solving problems that others think are impossible.

• You are curious. You find joy in learning about AI, technology, and finance.

• You are an owner. You are autonomous, self-directed, and comfortable working with ambiguity.

• You are collaborative, organized, thoughtful, and kind.

Why Join Rogo?

• Exceptional traction: strong PMF with the world's largest investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms.

• World-class team: we take talent density seriously. We like working with incredibly smart, driven people.

• Velocity: we work fast, which means you learn a lot and constantly take on more.

• Frontier technology: we're developing cutting-edge AI systems, pushing the boundaries of reinforcement learning and published research, redefining what's possible, and inventing the future.

• Cutting Edge Product: Our platform is state-of-the-art and crazily powerful. We're creating tools that make people smarter, reinventing finance works.