The People Operations team strives to create and deliver a seamless and positive employee experience across the entire employee lifecycle. Leading with our company values, we develop efficient and simple people processes, systems, policies, and programs. Our main goal is to grow our team through providing a strong culture and value for all of our employees.

The Expertise You Have

• Proven success in the HR & Office Administration
• Demonstrated experience with HRIS systems (Rippling, Greenhouse, Small Improvements)
• Bachelor’s Degree in communications, Marketing, Journalism, or a related discipline
• Experience working cross-functionally and hold people accountable for deliverables without a formal reporting structure
• Demonstrate strategic, analytical and problem-solving skill
• Strong understanding of Excel (Pivot Tables, V-Lookup, etc.)

The Skills You Bring

• Success building long-term relationships with clients and business partners
• Excellent organizational, project management, and presentation skills
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, focus on details, and work well under pressure to meet tight deadlines
• Demonstrated use of technical applications and social media tools such as Linked In, Facebook, Twitter
• Experience working independently and collaborating with a team
• Possess strong business acumen
• Experience supporting HR communications

The Value You Deliver

• Ready to deliver HR best practices for an organization that is focused on rapid growth
• Share key insights to assist in delivering creative and innovative approaches to HR initiatives 
• Partner with People Operations Leader to coordinate campus activities host/attend career fairs, meetings and conferences
• Support Operations team with administrative projects
• Ready to assist Office Management on day to day operations as needed
• Serve as point of contact for HR related topics
• Own scheduling of interviews, collection of feedback, and information requested from candidates
• Grow as subject matter expert in HR workforce trends
• Ensure consistent approach to corporate brand and image in all activities
• Determine level of commitment and serve as primary relationship manager
• Travel as required throughout the recruitment cycle to multiple regions for events

About Ocient:

Ocient is a Chicago-based, venture-funded startup building a SQL compliant, exabyte-scale database platform that achieves better performance than Hadoop and NoSQL systems. It is a distributed system optimized for NVMe drives, RDMA networks and high core count processors and is written in C++. We are led by a management team with seven successful startup exits, including Cleversafe which was one of the largest software startup exits in Chicago’s history.