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VeloCFO

Director of People Operations

Posted One Month Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
Senior level
Leads People Operations for clients by advising on team effectiveness, organizational design, employee relations, and people decisions. Manages benefits administration, including enrollment, carrier coordination, employee support, and potential migration. Builds scalable yet flexible People systems and processes, partners with leadership on headcount and organizational planning, and translates business goals into practical people strategies while navigating ambiguity and sensitive employee matters.
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Roles & Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, providing guidance on team effectiveness, organizational design, employee relations, and people decisions.

  • Manage the benefits program day-to-day: open enrollment, carrier coordination, employee questions, a potential program migration and feedback loops

  • Create lightweight systems and processes to implement across our client base to improve consistency while preserving speed and flexibility.

  • Partner with leadership on headcount planning, organizational structure, and evolving team needs.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience building People programs in an early stage, high growth environment or consulting role where adaptability and execution mattered as much as expertise.

  • Experience in SaaS, AI, healthcare tech and/or hardware tech industry

  • A builder's mindset. You enjoy creating systems from scratch and improving them as the organization evolves.

  • Strong HR business partnering skills and the ability to translate business goals into practical people strategies.

  • Sound judgment when navigating sensitive employee situations, balancing empathy with accountability.

  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and making progress without waiting for perfect information.

  • A practical approach to People Operations that focuses on outcomes rather than process for process's sake.

  • Familiarity with modern AI tools and a curiosity about how technology can improve internal workflows is a plus.

 

Employment Detail

  • Full-time, 40+ hours/week position with flexible PTO

  • Remote role - must be based in the U.S.; crisp and professional work-from-home setup is required

  • Competitive compensation via base salary + quarterly revenue share

  • Full professional fluency in English is required

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