People Operations Partner

The role

You will manage the employee lifecycle through operational delivery, automation, and continuous improvement. This role involves running payroll, managing employee data, and building AI-enabled workflows to connect systems like Rippling, Notion, and Slack.

What you will do

• Run monthly payroll end to end across UK and employer-of-record employees
• Deliver core People operations including onboarding, employee changes, contracts, leave, mobility, and offboarding
• Act as the point of contact for employee and manager queries
• Maintain employee data, documentation, and systems
• Build and maintain automations and AI-enabled tools and workflows
• Evolve the People technology ecosystem and evaluate emerging tools
• Improve processes and tools based on recurring pain points
• Partner across Finance, Legal, Talent, and Performance teams to build scalable services

Required qualifications

• Experience in People Operations, People Services, HR Operations or another operational People role
• Experience running payroll cycles end to end
• High comfort with technology, including AI, no-code or low-code tools, and integrations
• Ability to think in systems and workflows
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity
• Strong ownership instincts

Nice to have

• Breadth across the People remit beyond Operations - reward and benchmarking, pensions, benefits, or performance and engagement
• Familiarity with the basics of UK and EU employment law
• Experience administering equity or share options
• Experience supporting international employment through employers of record
• Experience setting up or managing contractors
• Experience in a fast-scaling startup or scale-up

Benefits

• Stock options
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays
• Swap public holidays for the ones that matter most to you
• Birthday off
• Remote first and flexible working
• No internal meetings on Friday afternoons
• Up to GBP1,200 or EUR1,400 per year for your remote setup
• Up to GBP150 or EUR170 per month for wellbeing

Before you apply

• Most processes take 2 to 3 weeks from first chat to offer
• Interview process includes an intro call, hiring manager interview, skills interview which might include a practical exercise, and a Bar Raiser interview

About the company

tem is a technology company rebuilding the energy transaction to be transparent and fair. They are a 160+ person team that powers energy for over 4,000 UK businesses.