People Operations Manager

We build AI voice agents for small and medium-sized businesses so they never miss a call and can focus on the work they actually love. Our AI handles every call automatically. But voice is just the beginning. Our vision: to build the world's first fully automated CRM. 8,000+ customers. >€5M ARR. ~30% monthly growth. Target until EOY: €30M. We live ownership: you own your work end-to-end. No politics, few meetings, direct feedback. Your Role You own everything after a candidate signs, from contracts through offboarding, and automate as much of it as possible. We are looking for someone to build the structural backbone to enable rapid scaling. • Contracts & onboarding: Manage employment contracts for all employees (direct and indirect employment), organize equipment, accounts, workspaces, and support relocation of international colleagues. • HR tooling & automation: introduce and own an HRIS tool, automate workflows across systems. • Payroll: Organize and own internal payroll processes, including variable compensation calculation of all sales teams. • Compliance & people legal: Support international hiring (EU and non-EU), time-tracking, collective agreements, international taxation topics, etc. • Compensation: Manage and monitor compensation bands across teams/countries. • Events & culture: Organize internal and external events (hackathons, off-sites, etc.) • Offboarding: Manage offboarding of employees. • Later, people development: Design feedback cycles, L&D, career development (e.g. SDR academy). What to Expect • Solo, end-to-end ownership of everything people operations. • Hands-on operational work to build the foundation for automation/scaling. • Direct impact: your work has immediate influence on the culture of fonio. • Flat hierarchies: close collaboration across departments. What You Bring • 1+ year of People Ops, HR, or Operations experience, ideally startup or scale-up. • Knowledge about Austrian labor law, payroll, and collective agreements • Structured, hands-on working style. • AI and automation/workflow skills. • People-first, low ego. You thrive under intensity. • German native, strong English. What We Offer • €65,000 to €80,000 • Equity • Relocation support • Daily lunch and dinner • Equipment of your choice • Regular team off-sites • On-site in Vienna, working directly with the core-team Hiring Process • 15 min intro call • 30 min skill interview • 20 min culture fit with the founders