Remote People Operations Leader for Public Service Tech

Skylight; United States; Remote; USD 100.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Professional development allowance

Tech purchases allowance

Zusammenfassung

Skylight is a fully remote government-focused digital consultancy. We are seeking a People Operations Manager who reports to the Head of People Operations to administer benefits and leave, manage the employee lifecycle from onboarding through offboarding, and keep our people systems accurate and current.

The role directly impacts our ability to attract, support, and retain talented public interest technologists while partnering with Finance on payroll inputs and benefits reconciliation.

Qualifikationen

• Five or more years of progressive experience in an HR generalist, people operations, or benefits and leave role.
• Ownership of benefits administration end to end, including broker management, renewals, and open enrollment
• Leave administration across multiple states, including interaction with federal and state leave laws
• Experience supporting employee relations matters, including documentation and communication
• Working knowledge of federal and multi-state employment law as it applies to leave, accommodation, classification, and pay practices
• Hands-on administration of an HRIS, including reporting, configuration, workflow automation
• Experience running onboarding and offboarding end to end, including I-9 and E-Verify compliance

Aufgaben

• Run onboarding and offboarding end to end, including the preboarding checklist, new employee orientation, I-9 verification meetings, and E-Verify submissions
• Run manager onboarding for employees stepping into people-management roles
• Run offboarding end to end, including the checklist, exit surveys, and state-compliant final pay and benefits steps
• Process role, project, and reporting-line transitions, keeping employee records and timekeeping assignments aligned
• Maintain employee data across our people systems, including address and status changes that carry tax or compliance implications
• Serve as the administrator for our HRIS (Rippling), covering configuration, data integrity, reporting, and integrations with our timekeeping and payroll systems
• Build and maintain automated workflows in the HRIS so routine people processes run without manual intervention
• Run HRIS and people-system implementations and migrations, including vendor coordination, data validation, go-live readiness, and post-launch stabilization
• Support employee relations matters by conducting intake, maintaining documentation, preparing correspondence, and coordinating with the Head of People Operations and outside counsel where needed
• Support managers through performance conversations and performance-improvement plans, including template preparation, documentation standards, and follow-up tracking
• Run the mechanics of our compensation and promotion cycles, including packet assembly, tracker maintenance, letter generation, and system updates
• Serve as the first point of contact for employee questions on benefits, leave, pay, and policy
• Maintain our people policies and knowledge base, keep the policy backlog current, and flag missing/obsolete policies
• Deploy and track mandatory compliance training such as anti-harassment and security awareness
• Monitor multi-state employment compliance obligations and surface changes
• Write and publish company-wide people communications
• Maintain SOPs, templates, and checklists behind workflows
• Identify manual processes worth automating and use AI to reduce administrative load
• Contribute to a work environment where people feel supported and informed

Kenntnisse

HR generalist

Benefits administration

Leave management

Employee relations

Employment law

HRIS

Onboarding

Remote teams

Ausbildung

PHR/SPHR/SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP

Tools

Rippling

Jobbeschreibung

Skylight is a fully remote government-focused digital consultancy. We are seeking a People Operations Manager who reports to the Head of People Operations to administer benefits and leave, manage the employee lifecycle from onboarding through offboarding, and keep our people systems accurate and current.

The role directly impacts our ability to attract, support, and retain talented public interest technologists while partnering with Finance on payroll inputs and benefits reconciliation.