People Operations Manager - North America

Powerhouse; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Overstory seeks a People Operations Manager for North America to streamline HR processes in a fast-paced, startup environment. You'll enhance employee experience from onboarding to offboarding while ensuring compliance with local labor laws and supporting team growth. Join a mission-driven team committed to tackling climate change and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Remote working budget

Educational budget for skill development

Equity opportunities

Competitive salary

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in HR Generalist, HR Manager or similar role.
• Familiarity with US local labor laws.
• Comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Run onboarding and offboarding processes effectively.
• Support managers with HR policies and procedures.
• Coordinate recruitment efforts, ensuring compliance with labor laws.

Skills

Communication

Judgement

Organizational Skills

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field

Job description

People Operations Manager - North America

Remote

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

The grid is the backbone of life as we know it. It powers hospitals, keeps food fresh, and ensures communities stay connected. But extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing wildfire risks are putting this critical system under pressure. All of this combined makes the electric utility industry the greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.

One of the leading causes of catastrophic wildfires and power outages? Trees and brush coming into contact with power lines.

That’s where we help. At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. By giving utilities critical analysis on those risks, we’re helping prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.

Our team spans the Americas and Europe, and we work with utility partners across the Americas and beyond. We’re outdoor enthusiasts, musicians, artists, athletes, parents, and adventurers—15 nationalities strong and growing. What unites us is a passion for solving complex problems, a commitment to climate action, and the belief that technology should be a force for good.

Join us to help us build a more resilient world together.

The role

As a People Operations Manager, you’ll ensure that all people operations for our team in North America run smoothly - from onboarding to offboarding and everything in between. You’re the beating heart of the People team, approachable and responsive to any questions from our Overstory team in your geography. You’re able to smoothly navigate local complexities while making the overall experience feel like Overstory. You’ll work hands-on delivering excellent day-to-day operations, guide managers with people-related questions and drive improvements to make us ready to scale as we enter a new phase of growth.

You’ll be part of a small but mighty People team, working closely with the Head of People. Together, we nurture a culture where everyone can be their best selves. We like thinking out-of-the-box, keeping our way of working simple and effective and most importantly: human-centric.

If you love fast-paced environments, like to make things happen and want to set the standard for what great people operations looks like - this role might be just what you’re looking for.

What you’ll do

You’ll own and run people operations for our team in North America that’s spread across the United States and Canada:

• Run onboarding for new team members from start to finish. You’ll make them feel at home from the minute they join
• Support managers and the wider Overstory team with questions on people policies or processes
• Draft offer letters and agreements
• Ensure our people operations are compliant with local labor laws
• Draft board and leadership reporting with people team updates, metrics, and visuals
• Coordinate recruitment for hiring managers, from posting the job, to keeping the candidate pipeline neat and tidy, to scheduling team interviews. You’ll work closely with our technical recruiter to maximise alignment with our recruitment strategy and approach.
• Ensure a smooth offboarding for team members that are moving on
• Handle benefits and leave administration for our North American team. A big part of that will be running the yearly health benefits enrollments in the US, and keeping the related administration tidy throughout the year.
• Run ad-hoc projects in collaboration with the Head of People

About you

• You have 5+ years of experience as an HR Generalist, HR Manager or similar role, involved in all aspects of HR
• You are familiar with local labor laws in the US
• You’ve worked in early-stage start-ups and love that fast-paced environment. You’re comfortable with the ambiguity that comes with working at a startup and you don’t need to have everything well defined before you act
• You have great judgement, you know how to balance quality and speed, and combine a business mindset with human touch
• You have exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English
• You know how to leverage AI to make everyone around you more efficient
• You’re passionate about our climate mission
• You’re based in the US, in the ET time zone

If you don’t meet all of the above yet feel you have lots to offer, please apply anyway.

What you get

• To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
• Equity and a competitive salary.

About our team

We are a group of 72 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from nine different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Denmark and Canada. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.

Diversity & Inclusion

We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.

We’re always looking to diversify our team further, but we’re proud of the fact that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 46% of the overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Estonian, Danish and Korean.

Our values

Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.

We act with urgency.

Our curiosity fuels our growth.

We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.

We’re rooted in diversity.

Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.

We care for each other.

We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.

Trust is fundamental.

We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.

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