People Operations Specialist

Kindredventures; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Dynamic Creatures, Cambridge, MA, seeks a hands-on People Operations Specialist to run the day-to-day HR engine, including onboarding, recordkeeping, and employee support. This in-person role emphasizes clean data, compliant files, and ensuring new hires feel cared for from day one.

You will own I-9/E-Verify, maintain audit-ready files, and support immigration casework with outside counsel while serving as the first contact for benefits, pay, PTO, and HR policies.

Qualifications

• 2-4+ years in People Operations, HR administration, or HR coordination.
• Hands-on experience with I-9/E-Verify and employee recordkeeping.
• HRIS experience with strong data-entry accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Run onboarding start to finish for hourly new hires — offer handoffs, background checks, paperwork, orientation, badges/equipment, day-one readiness.
• Own I-9/E-Verify completion and reverification, and keep files audit-ready at all times.
• Handle offboarding, including final pay timing, system deactivations, and exit paperwork.
• Keep employee records and personnel files accurate and confidential across the company.
• Process HRIS transactions (new hires, changes, terminations) with a high bar for accuracy.
• Prepare employment verifications and required documentation.
• Be a first point of contact for HR questions — benefits, pay, PTO, policies, onboarding, all of it.
• Support day‑to‑day immigration casework with outside counsel — document collection, case tracking, key dates like visa expirations and reverifications

Skills

HR onboarding

I-9/E-Verify

HRIS data entry

Recordkeeping

Communication

Tools

HRIS systems

Job description

People Operations Specialist

CAMBRIDGE, MA

FULL TIME

Manager -

Chief Business Officer

As we scale up, we need someone to run the day-to-day HR engine — onboarding, record keeping, employee support, all of it. This is a hands‑on, high‑volume role for someone who genuinely likes getting the details right: clean data, compliant files, and new hires who feel taken care of from day one.

This role is in-person in Cambridge, MA 5-days per week.

What You'll Do

• Run onboarding start to finish for hourly new hires — offer handoffs, background checks, paperwork, orientation, badges/equipment, day-one readiness


• Own I-9/E-Verify completion and reverification, and keep files audit-ready at all times


• Handle offboarding, including final pay timing, system deactivations, and exit paperwork


• Keep employee records and personnel files accurate and confidential across the company


• Process HRIS transactions (new hires, changes, terminations) with a high bar for accuracy


• Prepare employment verifications and required documentation


• Be a first point of contact for HR questions — benefits, pay, PTO, policies, onboarding, all of it


• Support day‑to‑day immigration casework with outside counsel — document collection, case tracking, key dates like visa expirations and reverifications

What We're Looking For

Must-haves

• 2-4+ years in People Operations, HR administration, or HR coordination


• Hands‑on experience with I-9/E-Verify and employee recordkeeping


• HRIS experience with strong data-entry accuracy


• Organized, detail-oriented, and dependable — high-volume work doesn't rattle you


• A clear, friendly communicator who can support anyone

Nice-to-haves

• Insperity experience


• Curiosity about robots and the entertainment industry

About Us

Dynamic Creatures is a robotics company designing and building interactive character robots for entertainment and hospitality brands. We are creating a new category of mobile characters that move naturally through guest environments, understand the context of an interaction and respond in real time. Dynamic Creatures offers character-based experiences built on Boston Dynamics and other systems, as well as fully original robots created for a specific brand, environment or story. As Boston Dynamics’ official entertainment and hospitality partner, the company works with entertainment companies to develop guest-facing character experiences designed to feel personal, attentive, and memorable. Dynamic Creatures was co‑founded by CEO Marc Theermann, former chief strategy officer at Boston Dynamics and a former senior leader at Google, and chief technology officer Farbod Farshidian, a globally recognized robotics researcher and former research leader at the Robotics and AI Institute.