Senior People Operations Specialist

The role

This senior, hands-on role owns HR operations end to end. You will manage HR platforms, vendor relationships, leaves, accommodations, and compliance for the hourly workforce.

What you will do

• Own the employee lifecycle including onboarding, job changes, offboarding, records, and verifications.
• Audit and elevate the employee experience by gathering feedback.
• Serve as a point of contact for employee HR inquiries and resolve tickets.
• Manage statutory leaves and lead interactive medical accommodation processes.
• Serve as the compliance escalation point for garnishments, complex leave cases, and sensitive offboarding.
• Run end-to-end payroll for exempt and non-exempt teams.
• Maintain timekeeping hygiene for hourly populations.
• Partner with benefits broker to manage health, 401(k), and wellness programs.
• Audit and reconcile monthly carrier billings, benefit feeds, and agency staffing invoices.
• Serve as primary system administrator for the People tech stack.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of progressive People Operations experience in a high-growth tech, or robotics environment.
• Direct experience partnering with benefits brokers/platforms and leading annual Open Enrollment.
• Demonstrated success processing multi-state payroll, enforcing non-exempt timecard compliance, and supporting contingent/agency workforces.
• Strong working knowledge of California employment law, FLSA classifications, and benefits administration frameworks.

Nice to have

• Direct experience administering Rippling

About the company

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. It is headquartered in San Jose, CA.