Senior People Operations Manager

Tribe; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Tribe is seeking a Senior People Operations Manager to own the operational HR function, using Rippling as the system of record and building the integrations and automations that scale as we grow. You’ll manage benefits, compliance, and the full employee lifecycle, partnering across teams to deliver a smooth, data-driven experience.

You’ll implement and optimize automation, own reporting, and drive policy creation while supporting multi-state and international compliance and work authorization

Qualifications

• 7+ years of HR operations experience.
• Hands-on expertise implementing Rippling.
• Proven ability to build automation and integrations.
• Benefits administration across models (PEO, EOR, in-house).
• Experience with multi-state and international compliance and work authorization.
• Strategic, systems-thinking, collaborative approach.

Responsibilities

• Own Rippling as source of truth and related integrations.
• Audit and optimize HR tech setup and processes.
• Build and own the people data reporting function.
• Own offer generation and onboarding processes.
• Own offboarding, leaves, and time-off administration.
• Keep people data accurate and flowing to cross-functional partners.
• Lead benefits administration end-to-end and manage compliance.
• Oversee immigration/work authorization with outside counsel.
• Create and manage HR policies.
• Be the first stop for HR questions and partner with teams.

Skills

Rippling

HR systems

Automation

Integrations

Benefits administration

Compliance

Multi-state & international

Work authorization

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tools

Tools

Rippling

Ashby

MCP

Job description

At Tribe, we're on a mission to help enterprises realize the value of AI for their business. Every large enterprise wants to use AI to transform how they operate — but many don't have the capabilities to do it. That gap is our opportunity.

We're an AI-native services company that helps enterprises build and deploy best-in-class AI products that deliver real business impact. We partner closely with OpenAI and Anthropic, giving us rare visibility into the most advanced models, roadmaps, and GTM strategies in the world.

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior People Operations Manager to build and own the operational side of Tribe's people function, and to build the infrastructure that lets it scale ahead of the company. Rippling is our source of truth, and you'll make it rock solid. But the real work is what you build on top of it: the integrations, automations, and processes that take manual work out of every hire, change, leave, and exit.

You'll own the full employee lifecycle, from offer through offboarding. You'll own benefits administration end to end, and you'll be the employee advocate and the front door for HR questions. You're a strategic, systems-minded builder who sees a need, raises it, and brings a solution, and you aren't afraid to get your hands dirty.

You'll own the operational side of our people function as a close partner, and you'll be the person who makes our internal systems as thoughtful as what we build for clients. As an AI-native company, we hold ourselves to that standard.

What You'll Be Doing

Systems, Automation & Data

Own Rippling as our source of truth, and the integrations and automations built on top of it: Ashby, our internal tools, and our MCP and AI integrations

Audit and continuously optimize our setup: find what we should be doing better and rebuild it

Build and own our reporting function and people data

Employee Lifecycle

Own offer generation and sending, from approval through signature

Own onboarding, from the backend automation to the new-hire experience

Own offboarding, employment changes, leaves of absence, and time-off requests

Keep people data accurate and flowing cleanly to cross functional partners

Benefits, Compliance & Work Authorization

Own benefits administration end to end: enrollment, renewals, carrier relationships, and evolving our approach as we scale

Own state registrations, payroll tax and unemployment registrations, compliance, and record-keeping

Run immigration and work authorization alongside outside counsel

Create and manage policy

Employee Advocate

Be the first stop for HR questions: resolve, or route to the right person

About You

A builder with a track record of owning HR operations and systems end to end at a rapidly scaling company (typically 7+ years)

Deep, hands‑on expertise in Rippling implementation and optimization

Proven experience building automation and integrations

Benefits administration experience across models (PEO, EOR, in‑house), including having led or been closely involved in a transition between them

Experience with multi‑state and international compliance, and with work authorization

You see a need, raise it, and bring a solution

You value close partnership and collaboration

A strategic, systems thinker who is just as comfortable doing the work yourself

Fluent with AI tools in your own work, with real examples of automations or workflows you built

Nice to Have

Compensation experience: creating and administering bands, benchmarking data, and cycle mechanics

Experience with Ashby

Experience building MCP or API-based integrations

Why Join Us

Ownership: You own the machinery the whole company moves through

Leverage: Every hour you spend automating something gives time back to everyone

Scope: Systems, benefits, compliance, and the full employee lifecycle in a company that is building its function now

Culture: A team that prizes intellectual growth, learning, and being challenged in a supportive environment