● Own all HR-related execution: compliance, policy enforcement, employee issues, performance accountability, and terminations
● Handle finance edge cases: vendor disputes, contract negotiations, invoice conflicts, collections, and settlements
● Manage legal-light matters: coordinate with outside counsel, handle government notices, insurance, and workers’ comp
● Serve as the escalation point for anything unclear, messy, or high-risk across the business
● Run onboarding and offboarding processes cleanly and consistently
● Identify recurring issues and turn them into policies, SOPs, or system fixes
● Maintain a clean documentation standard — every decision logged, no re-litigation
● Act as a shield for the Founder and Chief of Staff by reducing noise and solving problems upstream
● Issues get resolved once — cleanly, fairly, and permanently
● Founder and Chief of Staff are no longer pulled into day-to-day friction
● Compliance gaps and policy violations are proactively handled, not reactive
● Vendor disputes and negotiations consistently save or protect meaningful dollars
● Recurring problems turn into systems, not repeated conversations
You are expected to directly protect or recover $150K–$300K+ annually through decisions, negotiations, and system improvements.