People Operations Manager

The role

You will administer benefits and leave, manage the employee life cycle from onboarding through offboarding, and maintain people systems, records, and policies. This role reports to the Head of People Operations.

What you will do

• Administer benefits programs including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, FSA, HSA, and 401(k)
• Manage relationship with benefits broker and carriers
• Run annual open enrollment
• Administer all leaves of absence
• Maintain leave tracking and reporting
• Partner with Finance on payroll inputs and benefits reconciliation
• Run onboarding and offboarding end to end
• Process role, project, and reporting-line transitions
• Serve as administrator for HRIS Rippling
• Support employee relations matters and performance conversations

Required qualifications

• Five or more years of progressive experience in an HR generalist, people operations, or benefits and leave role
• Demonstrated ownership of benefits administration end to end
• Demonstrated ownership of leave administration across multiple states
• Experience supporting employee relations matters
• Working knowledge of federal and multi-state employment law
• Hands-on administration of an HRIS
• Experience running onboarding and offboarding end to end
• Experience working with remote and distributed teams
• Organized, detail-oriented, and quality-minded
• Superior written and oral communication skills
• Comfort working without a playbook
• Ability to travel for work from time to time

Nice to have

• Experience with Rippling or a comparable HRIS
• Experience in a government contracting, consulting, or professional services environment
• Experience administering benefits and leave through a company's growth from roughly 100 to 300 employees
• Experience implementing a leave management platform, a benefits administration system, or an HRIS migration
• Experience deploying and tracking mandatory compliance training across a distributed workforce
• Familiarity with government contractor compliance obligations
• Professional certification such as PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP

Benefits

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
• 20 vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and flexible sick leave
• Up to 12 weeks paid time off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
• Performance rewards including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
• Business development / sales bonuses
• Referral bonuses
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases

Before you apply

• All work must be conducted within the U.S.
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship
• You may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance
• You may be required to successfully complete a company background check

About the company

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.