We live ownership: you own your work end-to-end. No politics, few meetings, direct feedback.
Your Role
Responsibilities
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.
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Contracts & onboarding: Manage employment contracts for all employees (direct and indirect employment), organize equipment, accounts, workspaces, and support relocation of international colleagues.
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HR tooling & automation: introduce and own an HRIS tool, automate workflows across systems.
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Payroll: Organize and own internal payroll processes, including variable compensation calculation of all sales teams.
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Compliance & people legal: Support international hiring (EU and non-EU), time-tracking, collective agreements, international taxation topics, etc.
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Compensation: Manage and monitor compensation bands across teams/countries.
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Events & culture: Organize internal and external events (hackathons, off-sites, etc.)
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Offboarding: Manage offboarding of employees.
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Later, people development: Design feedback cycles, L&D, career development (e.g. SDR academy).
What to Expect
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Solo, end-to-end ownership of everything people operations.
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Hands-on operational work to build the foundation for automation/scaling.
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Direct impact: your work has immediate influence on the culture of fonio.
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Flat hierarchies: close collaboration across departments.
What You Bring
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3+ year of People Ops, HR, or Operations experience, ideally startup or scale-up.
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Knowledge about Austrian labor law, payroll, and collective agreements
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Structured, hands-on working style.
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AI and automation/workflow skills.
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People-first, low ego. You thrive under intensity.
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German native, strong English.
What We Offer
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€65,000 to €80,000
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Equity
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Relocation support
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Daily lunch and dinner
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Equipment of your choice
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Regular team off-sites
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On-site in Vienna, working directly with the core-team