Senior People Ops & Automation Lead (Remote)

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Tribe AI is seeking a Senior People Operations Manager to own the HR systems, automate processes, and scale our people function. You will own the lifecycle from offer to offboarding, manage benefits and compliance, and partner across teams to drive efficiency and accuracy.

Remote-first role with EST-friendly work hours. You bring 7+ years building HR operations at scaling companies, deep Rippling expertise, and a proven track record of automations and integrations.

Qualifications

• 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 leading or being closely involved in transitions.
• 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 comfortable doing the work yourself.
• Fluent with AI tools in your own work, with real examples of automations or workflows you built.

Responsibilities

• Own Rippling as source of truth and integrations atop it; manage Ashby and MCP integrations.
• Audit and optimize the HR tech setup to improve efficiency.
• Build and own reporting for people data and analytics.
• Own offer generation and sending from approval through signature.
• Oversee onboarding automation and the new-hire experience.
• Manage offboarding, changes, leaves, and time-off requests.
• Handle benefits administration end-to-end and evolving benefits strategy.
• Ensure compliance across states/international work and manage work authorization.

Skills

HR operations

Rippling expert

Automation & integrations

Benefits administration

Multi-state compliance

Work authorization

AI tools

HR partnerships

Strategic thinking

Tools

Ashby

MCP

APIs

Job description

Tribe AI is seeking a Senior People Operations Manager to own the HR systems, automate processes, and scale our people function. You will own the lifecycle from offer to offboarding, manage benefits and compliance, and partner across teams to drive efficiency and accuracy.

Remote-first role with EST-friendly work hours. You bring 7+ years building HR operations at scaling companies, deep Rippling expertise, and a proven track record of automations and integrations.