People Operations Lead
HybridParis, Île-de-France, France
Job Summary
Own all People administration, including contracting, payroll, and employee records, while serving as the trusted point of contact for staff on any People matter. Design and deliver core HR initiatives such as performance reviews, onboarding, policies, and compensation strategy, bringing fresh approaches suited to a hybrid startup environment. Take ownership of difficult conversations, coaching managers through underperformance and leading exit and termination processes with Legal support. Develop emerging managers to strengthen leadership capabilities. Report to the COO in a flexible role starting three days per week, with potential to expand mandate as the company scales.
Required Qualifications
- End-to-End Experience: You have owned these areas end to end before, with enough experience under your belt to make wise judgment calls without needing a rulebook.
- Proven on the Hard Stuff: You have personally managed underperformance and led terminations and exits, and are ready to own these from early in your tenure.
- Startup Background: You have worked in a startup or scale-up and understand how People works when resources are lean and the environment is hybrid and fast-moving.
- Ideas, Not Just Execution: You have a clear point of view on how to do performance, onboarding, compensation, and policy well, and bring modern, fit-for-purpose approaches rather than corporate defaults.
- Excellent Communicator: Careful, clear, and considered in how you communicate, especially on sensitive and difficult matters.
- The HR Face People Trust: Approachable and warm, with the personality and judgment to be the person staff and managers feel comfortable turning to, even in hard moments.
- Happy in the Detail and the Big Picture: Prepared to do the groundwork as much as the high-level thinking, and genuinely comfortable moving between the two.
- Full-Cycle Compensation: You have personally run at least one full compensation and review cycle, start to finish.
- Appetite to Grow: You want to grow the people-partnering and manager-development side over time, and to be genuinely invested in Bioptimus and its people, even in a part-time arrangement.
- Around three days per week. This is currently a part-time task most weeks.
- Some weeks will need a little more, occasionally a fourth day during busy periods such as hiring, reviews, exits, or policy work.
- Others will need a little less.
- As the company grows, the role is likely to grow in days too, with a genuine path toward a broader and more senior mandate, if this is desired.
- Well suited to someone building a portfolio career or working across a small number of companies, though we would love someone able to be genuinely invested in Bioptimus.
Desired Qualifications
- Ideally fresh approaches suited to a startup in a hybrid environment rather than playbooks lifted straight from large corporates.
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