People Operations Generalist (6 month contract with possibility of contract-to-hire)

The role

The People Operations Generalist Contractor owns the day-to-day employee experience from onboarding through development and retention. This role drives consistency, improves systems, and partners with leaders to strengthen culture across a distributed team.

What you will do

• Serve as a day-to-day People Operations resource for employees and managers during the leave coverage period.
• Respond to employee questions regarding company policies, benefits, leave, workplace practices, and general HR matters.
• Provide managers with guidance on routine employee relations matters, policy interpretation, attendance concerns, documentation, and employee issues.
• Support employee relations matters, including gathering information, documenting concerns, and escalating complex or high-risk matters.
• Support employee offboarding, including resignations and terminations.
• Support benefits administration by assisting employees with benefits questions, qualifying life events, and vendor-related issues.
• Support employee leave administration, including employee communication, documentation requirements, and coordination with vendors.
• Assist with employee changes such as promotions, compensation adjustments, title changes, transfers, and other employment updates.
• Provide HR guidance and support to the People Operations Support Specialist.
• Partner with the VP of Operations on People-related matters.

Required qualifications

• 3–5+ years of experience in Human Resources, People Operations, or an HR Generalist role.
• Strong experience supporting employee relations and day-to-day HR matters.
• Working knowledge of federal and state employment laws and HR compliance requirements.
• Experience supporting benefits, employee leaves, offboarding, and employment changes.
• Ability to provide practical HR guidance to employees and managers and appropriately escalate higher-risk matters.
• Strong judgment, discretion, and experience handling confidential employee information.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Rippling experience preferred

About the company

webAI is pioneering the future of artificial intelligence by establishing the first distributed AI infrastructure dedicated to personalized AI. The team is driven by truth, ownership, tenacity, and humility.