People Operations & Culture Generalist

The role

You will support the full employee life cycle, manage core people operations, and handle workplace and events in Foster City. You will also assist with recruiting and people team coordination.

What you will do

• Run the employee lifecycle end to end in Rippling
• Administer leave of absence programs across multiple states
• Own day-to-day benefits administration
• Support multi-state and cross-border payroll processing
• Keep compliance documentation audit-ready
• Serve as a first point of contact for employee questions
• Lead process automation across the People function
• Design, launch, and own core People programs
• Own the day-to-day employee experience at the Foster City office
• Plan and execute onsite events and celebrations

Required qualifications

• 5-7+ years in a People Operations, HR (People) Operations, or HR Generalist role
• Hands-on experience across leave of absence administration, benefits, payroll, and multi-state HR compliance
• Ability to run onsite events and workplace programs from concept through execution
• Experience independently managing employee relations matters, including investigations
• Experience designing and launching People programs that scale
• Vendor sourcing, management and relationships around workplace programs and events
• Systems thinking to map and redesign processes
• Sound judgment on when to handle something directly and when to route it up
• Confident, warm communicator
• Comfort juggling multiple priorities and shifting gears quickly
• Ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without reasonable accommodations

Nice to have

• Experience in a fast-moving start-up
• California employment law experience
• Experience with Greenhouse/Rippling
• Appetite for using AI and automation

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous stock options
• Great individual and family health plans
• 401(k)
• Flexibility to balance work and life

About the company

Cellanome is a well-funded start-up developing next generation technologies to unravel the complexities of biology. The company is scaling fast with employees in Foster City, San Diego, and Singapore.