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Lightning AILightning AINew York, NY

Technical People Operations Specialist

Build and administer secure People Operations systems, workflows, integrations, and employee lifecycle processes while supporting payroll, benefits, and employee and manager inquiries. The role requires 4+ years of technical People Operations experience, HRIS/ATS expertise, data-platform familiarity, and strong cross-functional product instincts.

110k – 160k/yr
Hybrid4+ YOEPeople Ops

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design secure People systems with role-based permissions and appropriate data access.
  • Build agents, workflows, dashboards, and decision-support tools for the People team, managers, and leaders.
  • Own day-to-day People Operations administration across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, employee changes, HRIS updates, documentation, and employee data management.
  • Support payroll and benefits administration, including employee changes, audits, reconciliations, enrollments, and resolving employee questions and issues.
  • Serve as a point of contact for employee and manager questions about pay, benefits, leave, policies, systems, and other People programs.
  • Maintain accurate and reliable People data and systems through audits, data cleanup, documentation, and process maintenance.
  • Support recurring People programs and operational cycles.
  • Partner with the broader People team to research, design, implement, deploy, and iterate internal solutions.
  • Build and maintain integrations, reporting, and automated workflows across People systems.
  • Build solutions that meet legal and compliance requirements for employee data across multiple jurisdictions.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in Tech with holistic People Operations service delivery and administration, including Tier 0, Tier 1, and Tier 2 employee and manager support.
  • Experience with knowledge bases, case management, ticketing and routing, SLA and quality measurement, escalation paths, and deflection.
  • Experience with people data, business systems, analytics platforms, or enterprise data infrastructure.
  • Deep familiarity with HRIS and/or ATS platforms such as Rippling, Greenhouse, or Ashby.
  • Experience designing secure systems with role-based access control and data permissioning.
  • Strong product instincts and an end-to-end approach to solution design.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional partnership with Finance, Legal, and IT.
  • Experience building processes and products from scratch and taking them to production.

Nice to Have

  • Familiarity with Agile, Anthropic, OpenAI, and AI agents.
  • Experience with Rippling, Greenhouse, Ramp, Carta, Pave, or Tilt.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Annual base salary: $110,000–$160,000 USD.
  • Discretionary bonus and meaningful equity component.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents.
  • RSUs.
  • 401(k) matching in the U.S. and pension contributions in the U.K.
  • Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and floating holidays.
  • Two-week company-wide winter break.
  • Paid parental and family leave.
  • Annual learning and development allowance.
  • Wellness and work-from-home stipends.
  • Four weeks of paid sabbatical leave after four years of service.
  • Flexible schedules and a hybrid work model for office-based teams.
  • Complimentary meals at office hubs.

Skills

people operationsHRISATSRipplingGreenhouseAshbySQLBigQuerySnowflakeDatabricksExcelrole-based access controlAI AgentsOpenAIAnthropic

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