People Operations Manager

The role

You will act as a partner to managers and employees regarding team structure, performance, and development. You will build and scale people systems, documentation, and compliance processes for a growing workforce.

What you will do

• Build or improve trackers, templates, and workflows
• Lead cross-functional projects like performance review cycles or leveling frameworks
• Own company-wide initiatives like open enrollment or new-state policy rollouts
• Pull data for audits and trend spotting
• Present process or policy changes to managers
• Coach managers through performance conversations and attendance questions
• Answer employee questions regarding benefits or equity vesting
• Handle offboarding details and advise on new hire success
• Support audits and compliance work
• Shape retention and engagement for a distributed team

Required qualifications

• Rapid scale experience in a 100 to 500+ growth spurt at a tech or tech-enabled startup
• Non-exempt expertise in a tech-enabled setting supporting remote hourly teams and salaried knowledge workers
• Hands-on payroll and systems ownership including Justworks or an equivalent PEO and an HRIS
• Multi-state compliance in practice regarding wage and hour, leave, and accommodations
• Business acumen connecting people decisions to revenue drivers and org design
• Project mastery and high standards
• Creative problem solving
• High EQ and grit

Nice to have

• AI fluency in building AI-powered or agentic workflows
• Experience moving international contractors to an EOR
• Healthcare or care-delivery experience

About the company

Honeydew is a platform connecting people to licensed dermatologists, FDA-approved treatments, and skin health support. The company is growing 5x YoY.