Senior Manager, People Operations & Employee Relations

present of AI

New York, Tempe, San Francisco (NY, AZ, CA)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

present of AI is seeking a Senior Manager of People Operations & Employee Relations to directly oversee payroll, benefits, leave, compliance, and the coaching of managers through tough conversations. The ideal candidate brings six or more years in HR at a fast-growing company, with multi-state payroll experience and strong employee-relations documentation.

In this AI-forward role, you will build automations to handle repetitive tasks like leave paperwork and payroll changes, while retaining

Qualifications

6+ years of HR experience at a fast-growing company.
Experience with multi-state payroll and leave.
End-to-end handling of employee relations cases with solid documentation.
Experience deploying or rolling out an HRIS with data quality responsibilities.
Ability to push back on leaders when needed.

Responsibilities

Oversee payroll, benefits, leave, and compliance operations.
Coach managers through challenging conversations and situations.
Lead employee relations cases from start to finish with thorough documentation.
Roll out and maintain HRIS, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
Develop AI-driven automations to handle repeatable HR tasks.

Skills

Employee relations

Payroll management

HRIS implementation

Coaching managers

Process automation

Tools

HRIS

Payroll software

Job description

Senior Manager, People Operations & Employee Relations

This is a hands-on People Operations and Employee Relations role that covers payroll, benefits, leave, compliance, and the daily work of coaching managers through hard situations. A strong candidate has about six or more years in HR at a fast-growing company, has run multi-state payroll and leave, and has handled employee relations cases from start to finish with solid documentation. Experience bringing an HRIS live and keeping its data clean matters a lot, as does the confidence to push back on leaders.

How it fits the AI era

The role is built around using AI to automate repeatable work like leave paperwork, filings, payroll changes, and employee questions, so a very small team can support the whole company. The person in it is expected to build those tools, not just request them, and to track how much manual work gets retired. What stays human is the judgment in investigations, performance conversations, exits, and supporting someone going through a leave.

How it builds AI experience

Someone in this role would gain practical experience building automations across payroll, benefits, onboarding, and self-service for a company that works with AI tools like Claude every day. Working at a company that makes AI-powered planning software for financial advisors also means seeing how a regulated, trust-based industry adopts AI. To prepare, a candidate can build a small workflow that handles one repeatable HR task and keep a record of the time it saves.

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