People Operations

The role

You will build and run core HR functions including onboarding, benefits, compensation, compliance, and employee relations. You will also own the immigration program end to end and support global mobility and international expansion.

What you will do

• Support global mobility and international expansion
• Evaluate and operationalize employee moves across countries
• Build People infrastructure for new markets
• Serve as a point of contact for immigration including visa sponsorship, renewals, and status changes
• Manage US immigration end to end in coordination with outside counsel
• Drive process design and continuous improvement across the employee lifecycle
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve People team operations
• Surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs for business decisions
• Jump into high-priority People and business projects as needed

Required qualifications

• 3+ years in people operations or HR at a fast-growing startup or tech company
• Solid generalist foundation across core HR: onboarding, benefits administration, compliance, employee relations, and policy
• Practical experience managing US immigration cases (H-1B, O-1, PERM, green cards), including direct coordination with outside counsel

About the company

Cognition is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents and the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.