Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Astro Mechanica is a vertically integrated aerospace company focused on democratizing high-speed flight. The People Operations Specialist will manage the employee journey from onboarding to offboarding, ensuring a seamless experience while building scalable HR processes to support the company's growth.
Responsibilities
- Build scalable People Operations processes from the ground up, creating systems that enable the company to grow while staying lean
- Support recruiting operations, including interview scheduling, candidate coordination, ATS administration, reporting, and recruiting metrics to provide visibility into hiring health across the organization
- Own benefits administration end-to-end, including enrollment, employee support, vendor management, compliance, annual renewals, and continuous improvements to the employee experience
- Own HR compliance administration across multiple states, including claims management, compliance, and coordination with insurance carriers and external partners, catching gaps before they become liabilities
- Own onboarding execution, including employment documentation, HRIS setup, benefits enrollment, and first-day readiness
- Support compensation planning, market benchmarking, equity administration, and annual compensation review cycles in partnership with leadership
- Serve as the primary point of contact for employee questions related to benefits, policies, and HR operations, exercising sound judgment on when to resolve issues independently versus when to involve leadership or outside counsel
- Own and continuously improve HR systems, documentation, workflows, and reporting to increase operational efficiency and reduce administrative burden
Skills
- 3–6+ years of experience in People Operations, HR Operations, Benefits Administration, or a generalist HR role with significant operational ownership
- Working knowledge of U.S. employment law and multi-state HR compliance, with sound judgment on when to resolve issues independently versus escalate to leadership or outside counsel
- Experience independently owning a benefits renewal cycle, including broker coordination, plan evaluation, employee communications, and open enrollment
- Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail, with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities and ensure nothing falls through the cracks
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust across all levels of the organization while handling sensitive and confidential information with discretion
- A proactive, ownership-oriented mindset with the ability to build processes, solve problems, and drive initiatives with minimal direction
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment where priorities evolve quickly
- Experience in aerospace, defense or another hardware-focused industry a plus
- Familiarity with ITAR facilities a plus
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) program and transparent stock option plan
- Self-managed and flexible time-off policy, including PTO, paid holidays, and sick time
- Flexible work environment
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