People Systems and Automation Manager

Cohere
San Francisco, New York, Toronto
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: People, HR & TalentSkills: ["Systems thinking","Process design","Workflow automation","Documentation","Edge-case thinking","Rapid tooling adoption"]

Own and improve end-to-end People processes by redesigning them for scale and then automating them across HR systems and collaboration tools. Build workflows for joiners, movers, and leavers, including offboarding and employee support, and reduce manual handling and errors by integrating across People, IT, Finance, and Payroll. Partner with teams during Rippling implementation, document SOPs/runbooks, and ensure processes hold as the organization moves toward audit and compliance needs.

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People Systems and Automation Manager

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Job Summary

Own and improve end-to-end People processes by redesigning them for scale and then automating them across HR systems and collaboration tools. Build workflows for joiners, movers, and leavers, including offboarding and employee support, and reduce manual handling and errors by integrating across People, IT, Finance, and Payroll. Partner with teams during Rippling implementation, document SOPs/runbooks, and ensure processes hold as the organization moves toward audit and compliance needs.
Location: San Francisco, New York, Toronto
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: People, HR & Talent
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Map how People processes work today, then redesign them before automating to avoid locking in current problems.
  • •Build workflows and automations across HRIS and wider tooling, designing for exceptions as well as the standard path.
  • •Own the employee lifecycle end to end (joiners, movers, leavers), removing human interaction in People processes.
  • •Close gaps between People, IT, Finance, and Payroll where work currently falls through, including internal mobility processes (promotions, transfers, manager/entity changes).
  • •Remove manual handling and human error by identifying work done by hand, automating it, and measuring reductions in hours, tickets, or errors; write SOPs/runbooks and keep process documentation as a source of truth.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDental401kPensionParental LeavePaid LeaveLearning StipendHome Office

Key Requirements

  • •Have built People Ops/HR Systems at a company that grew fast, ideally through a doubling.
  • •Have been through an HRIS implementation or migration and understand the associated costs.
  • •Have personally built workflows and automations in HR systems or adjacent tooling using triggers, conditions, integrations, and failure modes.
  • •Think in systems and can discuss edge cases (triggers, conditions, failure modes) and what not to automate.
  • •Write clearly and document by default; have run operations across multiple countries/entities (including EOR or contractor populations).
Experience:HRISPeople OperationsAutomationsMulti-country operationsEORContractor populations
Skills:Systems thinkingProcess designWorkflow automationDocumentationEdge-case thinkingRapid tooling adoption
Tech Stack:RipplingSlackNotionHRISAPIsWebhooks

Company Brief

Cohere
Builds security-first foundation models and enterprise AI products (LLMs, retrieval, agent platforms) for regulated industries, enabling customizable, private deployments across cloud and on-premises for real-world business applications.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: Toronto, Canada
Founded: 2019
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