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

- 3+ 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

1. 15 min intro call

2. 30 min skill interview

3. 20 min culture fit with the founders