People Experience Ops Partner (R6507)

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Melbourne, Victoria, AUS
In-Office
95K-140K Annually
Senior level
Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Robotics • Software • Defense Technology
Our mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems.
The Role
Owns international People Operations across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, employment documentation, HRIS records, payroll inputs, leave, benefits, compliance, and employee support. Coordinates with Payroll, Finance, Legal, Global Mobility, EORs, and external providers across multiple countries and time zones. The role also supports country launches, performance processes, reporting, process improvements, automation, and HR system enhancements while ensuring locally compliant and employee-centered operations.
Summary Generated by Built In
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube. 

About the team
The People Experience (PX) Operations team supports a seamless employee lifecycle across onboarding, offboarding, employee data management, leave administration, benefits support, and compliance reporting. We partner with employees, managers, and cross-functional teams across Shield AI’s international locations to ensure that core people processes are accurate, timely, locally compliant, and employee-centered.
About the role
The People Experience Operations Partner owns day-to-day people operations for employees across assigned international countries. This role manages employee lifecycle processes, country-specific employment documentation, employee changes, leave and benefits administration, and operational coordination with Payroll, Finance, Legal, and external providers.
You will work independently while staying closely connected to the central PX team and collaborating daily with U.S.-based peers across multiple time zones.
This position combines hands-on execution with process improvement, balancing consistent global practices with local employment requirements. The ideal candidate brings sound judgment, attention to detail, and experience navigating multi-country HR operations while delivering a high-quality employee experience across cultures and time zones.

What You'll Do

  • Deliver a consistent, locally relevant employee experience across assigned international locations, supporting employees and managers throughout the employment lifecycle.
  • Coordinate onboarding and offboarding with PX Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, IT, Payroll, and Legal to ensure employment documentation, eligibility checks, equipment, systems access, payroll, and benefits are addressed at the appropriate milestones.
  • Prepare employment contracts, amendments, and employee letters using approved local templates, coordinating review of nonstandard requirements with Legal or other specialists.
  • Maintain accurate HRIS records and personnel files, process employee changes, and reconcile information across systems and providers.
  • Coordinate payroll inputs, leave administration, and benefits support with internal teams and external providers.
  • Serve as a day-to-day operational contact for employees, managers, local providers, and employers of record (EORs); resolve queries, monitor service delivery, and escalate complex or nonstandard matters.
  • Support new-country and entity launches by coordinating assigned operational workstreams for employment processes, systems, payroll, benefits, and employee support, including transitions from EOR arrangements.
  • Partner with Global Mobility to coordinate documentation and milestones for immigration, work authorization renewals, relocations, and international transfers.
  • Support managers through performance reviews, promotion cycles, talent reviews, and development programs by explaining established processes, coordinating activities, and tracking deadlines.
  • Maintain process guides, employee resources, and compliance calendars, partnering with specialist teams on reporting and audit requirements.
  • Use employee feedback and operational reporting to identify service gaps, resolve recurring issues, and improve the employee experience.
  • Implement process improvements, automation, and system enhancements within established global standards and local requirements.
  • Collaborate across countries and time zones, maintaining effective handoffs and close alignment with U.S.-based peers and the central PX team.

What You'll Bring

    Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of relevant experience in People Operations, HR operations, or a related HR role, including hands-on responsibility for employee lifecycle processes across multiple countries.
  • Experience managing onboarding, offboarding, employment documentation, leave administration, payroll inputs, and benefits administration in partnership with internal teams and external providers.
  • Practical understanding of employment requirements in the countries supported, with sound judgment about when to involve Legal or other specialists.
  • Strong HR systems and data skills, including maintaining accurate records, reconciling information, developing operational reports or dashboards, and translating data into actionable insights.
  • Ability to work independently within established policies and processes, manage competing priorities, and meet deadlines across multiple countries and time zones.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to provide responsive, empathetic support to employees and managers while handling sensitive information appropriately.
  • Demonstrated success resolving operational problems and improving processes through automation, system enhancements, or simpler ways of working.
  • Preferred qualifications

  • Experience with UKG, Workday, Jira, or similar HR and service-management platforms.
  • Experience working with EOR partners, international mobility processes, new-country launches, or entity transitions.
  • Experience in a growing technology, engineering, or defense business.
  • Additional language skills relevant to the countries supported.

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Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
 
Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
 

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of relevant experience in People Operations, HR operations, or a related HR role, including hands-on responsibility for employee lifecycle processes across multiple countries.
  • Experience managing onboarding, offboarding, employment documentation, leave administration, payroll inputs, and benefits administration with internal teams and external providers.
  • Practical understanding of employment requirements in the countries supported, with sound judgment about when to involve Legal or other specialists.
  • Strong HR systems and data skills, including maintaining accurate records, reconciling information, developing operational reports or dashboards, and translating data into actionable insights.
  • Ability to work independently within established policies and processes, manage competing priorities, and meet deadlines across multiple countries and time zones.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, including responsive employee and manager support and appropriate handling of sensitive information.
  • Demonstrated success resolving operational problems and improving processes through automation, system enhancements, or simpler ways of working.
  • Experience with UKG, Workday, Jira, or similar HR and service-management platforms.
  • Experience working with EOR partners, international mobility processes, new-country launches, or entity transitions.
  • Experience in a growing technology, engineering, or defense business.
  • Additional language skills relevant to the countries supported.

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The Company
HQ: San Diego, CA
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

At Shield you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.

Why Work With Us

Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.

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