Your Opportunity
At PLACE, we're building a category-defining company at the intersection of real estate, technology, business services, and the consumer. As a profitable, hypergrowth startup on the path to an IPO, our standards are high, our team is scrappy, and our commitment is to execute the best work of our lives.
This is YOUR CHANCE to be at the heart of a People Operations function that powers a company scaling rapidly and innovating boldly. As our HR Administrator, you'll partner with the Payroll Manager and HR Business Partner to keep our people operations running smoothly — from payroll and benefits to onboarding and employee experience. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, love solving problems, and believe operations excellence is a competitive advantage, this is your PLACE.
Who Develops You
Payroll Manager & HR Business Partner
What You're Great At
You are the kind of person who finds satisfaction in getting the details exactly right. You're organized, discreet, and genuinely enjoy helping people navigate HR questions with clarity and professionalism. You're comfortable wearing multiple hats — one moment you're auditing payroll data, the next you're welcoming a new hire on their first day. You communicate with warmth, handle sensitive information with care, and you know how to prioritize when everything feels urgent. You're not just an administrator — you're a connector, a problem-solver, and a culture builder.
What You'll Do
- Provide administrative support for payroll processing, including data entry, auditing employee records, and processing payroll changes accurately and on time.
- Assist with benefits administration including enrollments, terminations, and responding to employee benefit questions with clarity and care.
- Maintain HR records, prepare reports, and ensure data accuracy across HR systems.
- Support new hire onboarding by assisting with offer letter creation, coordinating background checks, and delivering a seamless onboarding experience.
- Own the Bellingham new hire welcome experience, making every new team member feel like they've arrived somewhere special.
- Triage the HR shared mailbox, responding to routine inquiries and escalating complex questions to the right people.
- Serve as a go-to resource for employees with questions on policies, procedures, and general HR topics.
- Assist with compliance reporting and audits as needed.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition by building relationships in the Bellingham community to help develop local talent funnels.
- Support HR projects, process improvements, and initiatives as assigned, always looking for smarter, more efficient ways to deliver great service.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure timely and accurate delivery of HR services across the organization.
What You Bring
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
- 1–2 years of HR, payroll, or administrative experience preferred.
- Familiarity with basic HR principles, payroll processes, and benefits administration is a plus.
- Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
- Ability to handle confidential information with the highest level of integrity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills — professional, approachable, and clear.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and experience with an HRIS (ADP, Workday, or similar).
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment without dropping the ball.
- A genuine customer-service orientation — you care about the employee experience, not just the transaction.
Why PLACE
We believe people do their best work when they're trusted, supported, and surrounded by others who are equally driven. Our competitive benefits include PTO as needed, comprehensive insurance coverage, a 401(k) match, stock option grants, and a stock purchase plan. Every team member is an owner — building the PLACE they're proud to call "my company."
Salary: $30/hour
Location: This is an office role in Bellingham, WA.
Skills Required
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
- 1-2 years of HR, payroll, or administrative experience preferred.
- Familiarity with basic HR principles, payroll processes, and benefits administration is a plus.
- Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
- Ability to handle confidential information with the highest level of integrity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills -- professional, approachable, and clear.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and experience with an HRIS (ADP, Workday, or similar).
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment without dropping the ball.
- A genuine customer-service orientation -- you care about the employee experience, not just the transaction.
What We Do
PLACE is an end-to-end real estate technology platform that partners exclusively with top real estate teams and brokerages in more than 70 locations across the United States and Canada. When you join PLACE, you are joining a winning team recently recognized by RealTrends on the Wall Street Journal's “The Thousand” list as #1 in its category. We set out reimagining what the real estate industry could and should look like. Then we set out to reinvent the real estate model as we know it. We created a PLACE that provides proprietary technology and business services including accounting, bookkeeping, human resources, in-house legal, design and marketing, videography, talent acquisition, agent attraction, business training and coaching, and perhaps most surprising, an incredible Agent Opportunity Model with staff and agent benefits unlike anything else in the industry.
