Manager, People Operations

Reports to: Director of People Operations

Compensation: On-Target Earnings: $130K

About the Role

We’re growing and we’re looking for a Manager of People Operations who’s energized by helping people and systems thrive together.

In this role, you’ll own and elevate the end-to-end employee experience, leading recruiting operations, new hire onboarding, engagement, and offboarding while designing programs that empower growth, belonging, and clarity. You’ll apply systemic thinking to connect People initiatives to broader business goals, ensuring our culture scales with intention and impact.

You’ll partner across teams to strengthen how we work, driving alignment, simplifying complexity, and building the conditions for people to do their best work. This role is ideal for someone who’s self-motivated, curious, and accountable, with the emotional intelligence to influence and inspire through trust and collaboration.

What You’ll Do

Own the Employee Experience

• Lead and continuously improve every stage of the employee lifecycle, from hiring coordination to onboarding, engagement, and offboarding.
• Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to ensure experiences that reflect our values, foster belonging, and set people up for success.
• Design and evolve scalable People programs that encourage growth, intrinsic motivation, and meaningful connection.
• Apply systemic thinking to ensure People processes align across the organization, balancing efficiency with empathy.

Strengthen Culture & Belonging

• Use feedback, reflection, and data to shape initiatives that strengthen engagement, accountability, and clarity.
• Partner with leaders and teammates to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of the employee experience.
• Model emotional intelligence by building trust, supporting open dialogue, and creating psychologically safe spaces.
• Champion a growth mindset culture, one that encourages and celebrates learning, feedback, and continuous improvement.

Optimize Processes & Tools

• Keep People tools, templates, and documentation organized, transparent, and up to date across Confluence, ATS, and HRIS systems.
• Create toolkits and resources that make People processes simple, accessible, and empowering.
• Approach every project with curiosity and accountability - testing, iterating, and improving with intention.
• Use data and systems thinking to identify opportunities for optimization and scalability.

What You’ll Bring

• 3+ years in People Operations, Recruiting Operations, or a related role, ideally in a growing tech environment.
• Proven experience owning and improving employee lifecycle processes with measurable impact.
• Strong project management skills, with an eye for detail, consistency, and accountability.
• A proactive, outcomes-driven mindset: you take initiative, anticipate needs, and follow through with integrity.
• High emotional intelligence: you communicate clearly, build trust easily, and navigate sensitive topics with empathy.
• Proficiency with HR systems (ATS, HRIS, LMS, Asana, Confluence) and the ability to use data and feedback loops to drive improvement.

What May Make You Even More Successful Here

• Experience in a scaling, remote-first company (50–200 employees).
• Hands-on experience building DEI or employee engagement programs that promote growth and belonging.
• Experience developing People Ops resources like onboarding guides, manager toolkits, or feedback frameworks.
• Familiarity with performance management or learning and development programs.

Who we are

At Informed K12, we’re on a mission to help school district administrators operate efficiently and gain insight into their most critical school business processes. Still today, most school districts have hundreds of mission-critical processes that run on paper, making visibility and improvement near impossible. We transform paperwork from a daily stumbling block to a strategic tool. This makes it possible to hire the right teachers for the right classrooms faster, manage bus routes for students without permanent housing, ensure teachers get reimbursed and paid on time, and a lot more. In short, we are powering the future of school district operations by helping district administrators drive the systemic change needed to improve productivity, accountability, and equity.

Our founders came out of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. Informed K12 (formerly Chalk Schools) was one of the first companies funded by Stanford’s StartX accelerator and top education technology incubator Imagine K12, now part of Y Combinator. Learn more about us at www.informedk12.com.

What We Value

• Growth Mindset
• Intrinsic Motivation
• Emotional Intelligence
• Accountability
• Systemic Thinking

Why You’ll Love Working Here

You’ll join a company that believes growth and accountability go hand in hand, where curiosity is encouraged, mistakes are viewed as opportunities to learn, and everyone’s impact is visible.

You’ll have the autonomy to shape meaningful programs, the support of emotionally intelligent teammates, and the chance to help build a system that scales both people and purpose.

Here, you’ll be part of a team that values clarity, empathy, and intrinsic motivation, and works every day to make great work feel human.