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Sr Manager, People Operations and Strategy

NetBox Labs is seeking a Sr Manager to build out its People team with 5-8 years of experience. Reporting into the VP of People and Finance, you will build the foundation of HR administration, manage employee relations and engagement, and strengthen a performance-driven culture for a high growth startup.

In this role you will:

  • Own people operations, including onboarding, offboarding, employee handbooks, benefits, and payroll coordination

  • Build policies to ensure compliance with applicable employment regulations

  • Partner and act as a trusted advisor to managers to connect business goals and challenges with HR strategies and solutions

  • Liaise and provide expertise on employee issues and workplace concerns

  • Run programs to drive employee experience, engagement, performance management, and leadership development

  • Champion our employer values and brand

  • Implement and own HR system(s), data, and analytics

  • Build career ladder frameworks to support scaling teams

  • Lead strategic people initiatives to drive constant improvement

The ideal candidate will have:

  • 7+ years working in a fast paced, early to mid stage (<200 employees) startup environment

  • Strong knowledge of employee relations, compliance, and core HR processes

  • Familiarity with analytical tools and HR systems of record

  • Experience managing global workforces, especially in the US, UK, and Canada

  • Ability to connect and balance our people operations and strategy with business outcomes and strategic goals

  • Excellent organization and attention to detail, which are critical to keep up with a dynamic, fast paced environment

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills

  • Ability to build trust with and influence more senior business leaders

  • Creativity, flexibility, and empathy, which are critical to positive employee experience

  • Motivation to get things done while multitasking multiple projects

Our stack

  • Justworks - US PEO

  • Deel - International PEO

  • Culture Amp for performance management

Our culture and values: 

  • We own and solve problems with high attention to detail.

  • Our open source contributors, users, customers & team are all part of our community. When our community wins, we win.

  • We prioritize simplicity and think twice before adding complexity

  • Clear communication helps keep our team aligned and collaborating smoothly.

About NetBox Labs:

NetBox Labs helps companies build and manage complex networks. We help customers accelerate network automation by delivering open, composable products and supporting the network automation community.

NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of open source NetBox, the world’s most popular network source of truth, and Orb, the next-generation open source network observability platform. Our products include NetBox Enterprise, a fully supported self-managed NetBox with advanced features, and NetBox Cloud, a secure, scalable, and reliable SaaS edition of NetBox.

NetBox powers thousands of companies, and NetBox Labs is backed by investment from Notable Capital (formerly GGV), Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, Flybridge, IBM, Salesforce Ventures, and Mango Capital.

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