People Operations Manager

Logos Space; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Logos Space in San Diego, CA is seeking an experienced People Operations professional to lead the full employee lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding, as the company scales beyond 100 employees.

The role manages onboarding, benefits, compliance, HRIS (Rippling), and performance engagement initiatives, partnering with leadership to foster a strong culture and smooth operations in a fast-growing tech environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, business, or related field.
• 6+ years in People Operations or related roles.
• Hands-on onboarding, compliance, benefits administration, and employee relations.
• Ability to manage multiple processes in a fast-paced technical environment.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Onboarding: Manage and execute end-to-end onboarding for new hires with a structured, welcoming integration.
• Lifecycle Management: Coordinate day-to-day employee lifecycle changes, promotions, transitions, and offboarding.
• Benefits, Compensation & PEO Administration: Act as primary contact for payroll, benefits, and HRIS with the PEO; handle benefits inquiries and plan administration.
• Performance Enablement & Engagement: Support performance management cycles and company-wide engagement initiatives.
• Culture & Compliance: Reinforce values, manager enablement, and ensure compliance and records accuracy.

Skills

People Operations

Onboarding

Payroll

Benefits

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR / related field

Tools

Rippling

Job description

Logos Space is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite system purpose-built to serve the connectivity needs of the commercial enterprise users and government users. We will help fill an important gap in the market, providing resilient, high-performance satellite-based connectivity services to enterprise and government customers worldwide. Business customers have contracts with agreed-upon performance standards for their broadband, and Logos will build these capabilities into the system from the beginning. Speed and reliability are the foundation of the system. Logos is designed to extend cloud and data center network connectivity anywhere in the world to fixed, seaborne, and airborne terminals.

Logos is led by a team of highly experienced engineers with proven track records in the networking and satellite industries.

Position Summary & Responsibilities

As we scale past 100 employees, our People function needs an operator, not just an administrator: someone who can run the full employee lifecycle end to end while we build the programs: performance, engagement, culture, that turn a growing headcount into a real team.

This is a hands-on role. You'll drive the mechanics of the People function at Logos: onboarding, benefits, compliance, HRIS, while also helping shape how we manage performance and keep people engaged as we grow.

Responsibilities

Employee Lifecycle & Onboarding Execution

• Onboarding: Manage and execute the end-to-end onboarding experience, ensuring all new hires have a structured, welcoming, and consistent integration into the company.

• Lifecycle Management: Coordinate day-to-day employee lifecycle changes, promotions, transitions, and offboarding with administrative precision.

Benefits, Compensation & PEO Administration

• PEO Partnership: Act as the primary point of contact for our PEO to coordinate payroll, benefits, and overall system functionality.

• Benefits & Comp Support: Handle day-to-day inquiries regarding employee benefits, compensation changes, open enrollment, and plan administration.

• Employee Touchpoint: Serve as the first line of support for employees on daily processes, payroll, benefits, and company policies.

Performance Management & Employee Engagement

• Performance Enablement: Support the execution of performance management processes, including review cycles, timelines, and tracking performance feedback tools.

• Engagement Initiatives: Lead company-wide employee engagement efforts, including survey execution, gathering actionable insights, and partnering with leadership on action planning.

• Culture Alignment: Support initiative touchpoints that reinforce company values, manager enablement, and employee development.

Employee Relations & Compliance

• Employee Relations: Serve as a trusted advisor to employees and managers, helping resolve day-to-day employee relations inquiries and escalating complex cases as needed.

• Compliance & Records: Maintain accurate employee files and audit-ready records to ensure complete alignment with federal, state, and local compliance requirements

• HRIS Management: Take full ownership of our HRIS (Rippling), ensuring total data accuracy, reporting, and workflow efficiency.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field.

• 6+ years of experience in People Operations, or related operational roles.

• Hands-on experience managing onboarding, compliance, benefits administration, and employee relations.

• Proven ability to manage multiple processes simultaneously in a fast-paced or high-growth technical environment.

• Exceptional communication, empathy, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in a startup or scaling organization.

• Experience supporting highly technical or engineering-heavy teams.

• Direct, hands-on experience navigating Rippling or similar integrated HRIS systems.