Director of People Operations

The role

The Director of People Operations owns the People Operations function, global payroll, the employee lifecycle, Talent Acquisition, and IT provisioning. You will architect a version of People Operations built for the AI era by building systems, agents, and playbooks yourself.

What you will do

• Own the People Operations architecture and automation
• Build People Operations AI agents and automations
• Create frameworks and playbooks for managers to run people processes
• Manage People programs including career paths, compensation, and performance cycles
• Oversee people data and engagement measurement systems
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of two
• Personally build and fix People Operations workflows, automations and agents
• Design how Rippling, Remote and Ashby work together
• Handle complex employee relations and compliance cases with Legal
• Own calibration, promotion and exit decisions

Required qualifications

• Operations or leadership experience, ideally through a comparable growth-stage transition
• Systems architecture thinking
• Hands-on experience building automations or AI agents yourself
• AI tools
• Slack, Jira, Confluence

Nice to have

• Series B or growth-stage scale-up experience
• Zapier, Airtable or similar no-code automation
• Rippling or a comparable HRIS and global payroll platform
• Remote or a comparable employer of record platform
• Ashby or a comparable ATS
• AI coding tools (Claude, Claude Code)

Benefits

• Equity
• 20 days annual leave plus sick, carer's and compassionate leave
• 16 weeks primary and 6 weeks secondary carer parental leave
• EAP
• L&D budget
• home office setup
• weekly catered lunches
• work-from-anywhere weeks
• flex days

Before you apply

• We hire directly and don’t work with agencies

About the company

Sitemate builds best-in-class software and AI agents for the built world, helping construction, infrastructure and industrial companies work smarter and faster. They have 200 people across 18+ countries.