People Operations Manager (m/f/d)

We grew from $1M to $10M ARR in under 12 months and now serve 10,000+ customers.

Fonio is Europe's market leader for AI phone agents for SMBs. Now were expanding globally and into new products.

We move fast, take ownership, give direct feedback, and avoid politics and unnecessary meetings.

Join one of Europe's fastest-growing companies. 1 People Operations Manager (m/f/d) 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

* 15 min intro call

* 30 min skill interview

* 20 min culture fit with the founders

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fonio/174fb5e8-2591-4423-b83f-011f36421049/application?embed=js&locationId=18386194-f012-4992-827f-51d91e785ada Das Mindestentgelt inklusive Überzahlung für die Stelle als People Operations Manager (m/f/d) beträgt 80.000,00 EUR brutto pro Jahr auf Basis Vollzeitbeschäftigung.