People Ops Architect - Build HRIS, Immigration & Relocation

Arena Technologies, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

401(k) Retirement Plan

Unlimited PTO

Lunch via Sharebite

Relocation support

Job summary

Arena Physica in New York, NY seeks a People Operations Manager to own the employee experience for a 70-person team across functions. You will define hiring, onboarding, benefits, and retention programs while building scalable HR processes.

You will serve as the founding member of the People Ops team, building systems end-to-end as a generalist, managing HRIS, benefits brokerage, immigration cases, performance evaluation, and compliance as the company grows.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in people operations or as an HR generalist, including time at a company under 100 people where you built the process rather than inherited it
• Direct ownership of payroll and benefits - you've run the cycle yourself and untangled the messes, not just overseen a vendor doing it
• Fluency with a modern HRIS - you've implemented or meaningfully rebuilt one, and you have opinions about what good looks like
• Working knowledge of employment law and multi-state compliance - enough to keep us clean day to day and sharp instincts for when to call a lawyer
• Experience managing immigration cases - you've worked alongside outside counsel on employment-based visas and understand what the process demands of both the company and the person going through it
• High operational horsepower - you move fast, manage many threads without dropping them, and instinctively build for scale the second time you do something
• Discretion - you'll hold comp data, medical information, and hard conversations, and none of it goes anywhere

Responsibilities

• Own employee onboarding - run the pre-start experience from offer paperwork and I-9 verification through equipment, workspace, and a first week that gets people productive fast and confirms they made the right call
• Administer benefits - manage medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and leave programs, act as the first point of contact when someone has a claim problem, and run open enrollment with our broker
• Own the HRIS and people data - keep the system as a genuine source of truth, build the headcount, attrition, and comp reporting leadership needs, and automate recurring work so it doesn't scale linearly with the team
• Keep us compliant as we scale - maintain handbooks, policies, and postings across NY, CA, and wherever we go next, and partner with counsel on employment matters with good instincts for when to elevate
• Own immigration - manage visa and green card cases end to end with outside immigration counsel, from H-1B and O-1 filings through transfers, extensions, and permanent residency
• Drive the performance evaluation process - sharpen rubrics with team leaders, standardize processes across teams, and help employees grow

Skills

People operations

HR generalist

Payroll

Benefits

HRIS

Employment law

Immigration

Operational horsepower

Job description

Arena Physica in New York, NY seeks a People Operations Manager to own the employee experience for a 70-person team across functions. You will define hiring, onboarding, benefits, and retention programs while building scalable HR processes.

You will serve as the founding member of the People Ops team, building systems end-to-end as a generalist, managing HRIS, benefits brokerage, immigration cases, performance evaluation, and compliance as the company grows.