People Operations Lead

The Role

You will own the entire people function at Circadia excluding recruiting a solo operator running comp & benefits the employee lifecycle culture compliance and people systems for a workforce that spans office clinical and field staff across the US UK and Pakistan.

Youll start as a solo operator and as Circadia scales youll build out the People Operations function designing the roadmap making the case for headcount and hiring and leading the team. You are the owner of how it feels to work here: the person employees naturally come to and the person leadership relies on to keep a multi-state multi-country company compliant and humane at the same time.

What Youll Own

• Compensation & benefits: Comp band administration and offer calibration with Finance benefits design and vendor management payroll/benefits administration oversight through our PEO/HRIS stack and equity administration coordination with Finance and Legal.
• Employee lifecycle: Onboarding offboarding and terminations performance management (review cycles promotions PIPs) and retention analysis.
• Culture & employee experience: Build genuine relationships across a distributed multi-country workforce and keep a real pulse on what people are happy about what theyre not and what we can do better then act on it. Own culture programming and values reinforcement the employee experience end to end and the ombudsman channel (intake triage and escalation).
• Employee relations: Guide people and managers through the moments that matter leaves life events hard conversations exits with discretion and judgment that protect both our people and the company. Run investigations with documentation discipline partnering with counsel on serious matters.
• Compliance & policy: Own the handbook and people policies multi-state wage/hour and classification compliance leave management and occupational health requirements for field and clinical staff. Coordinate immigration if sponsorship arises and oversee automated compliance training.
• International & distributed: UK employment (contracts statutory benefits local compliance or EOR) Pakistan employment/EOR management and multi-state compliance as the field workforce grows.
• Manager enablement: Partner with our first-time managers on feedback development and retention not just process training so employees feel theyre progressing and fairly assessed.
• Systems & data: Own the HRIS and people-tech stack evaluate implement and replace systems as we scale plus people data and reporting for leadership (headcount attrition org metrics) and continuous streamlining of HR workflows with modern tooling and AI.

Who You Are

• High EQ and warmth. People naturally feel comfortable coming to you; you build trust quickly and at every level office clinical and field.
• Operational rigor. You can take a program onboarding an immigration case a leave process an investigation and run it cleanly from beginning to end without dropping details. You like building from scratch.
• Discretion by default. You handle confidential information thoughtfully and know what to share with whom and when.
• Comfortable enforcing policy. You can operate communicate and uphold policies consistently and fairly not just write them.
• Independent operator future builder. You exercise sound judgment without a team around you today and you know how to design hire and lead the function as it grows.

What Were Looking For

• 610 years of HR/People Operations experience with end-to-end ownership at a startup
• California employment compliance fluency including leave management and termination practice
• Employee relations and investigations experience
• Benefits and payroll administration oversight experience
• Performance cycle ownership
• Compensation and leveling knowledge
• Ability to quickly learn implement and administer new HR systems plus comfort using AI and modern tooling to streamline workflows

Especially Valuable

• Working knowledge of UK and Pakistan employment practices
• Healthcare or healthtech industry experience
• HRIS or compliance-automation implementation experience (any platform)
• Familiarity with immigration processes (H-1B green cards TN visas)
• Learning & development instincts