The Role
Supports People Operations across onboarding, offboarding, benefits administration, payroll coordination, HR documentation, HRIS data management, reporting, employee inquiries, compliance, and HR program execution. Maintains accurate employee records, coordinates with payroll, finance, vendors, and immigration counsel, and helps improve scalable HR workflows and processes.
Summary Generated by Built In
Samba connects the advertising industry. Today, a trillion dollars of media flows through platforms that don’t talk to each other, and each one measures its own results. We built the independent alternative: consented first-party data and AI that give the world’s biggest advertisers, publishers, and platforms one clear view across all of it.
The next era of advertising will run on AI agents, and those agents will need data they can trust. We’re building that foundation, and the agents that act on it. Join us and help build what the industry runs on.
You support the operational backbone of Samba's People & Culture function, keeping the employee lifecycle running smoothly, from onboarding and benefits administration to payroll coordination, HR documentation, HR information system (HRIS) reporting, and compliance support. You work closely with HR leadership and cross-functional teams. It's ideal for someone who enjoys HR operations, working with systems and data, and creating a seamless employee experience.
- Support the Lifecycle: Support employee lifecycle operations, including onboarding, offboarding, and employment changes, and generate HR documents such as employment letters, policy acknowledgements, and templates, managing e-signature workflows.
- Administer Benefits: Assist with benefits administration, including employee enrollments, updates, vendor coordination, and open enrollment execution.
- Own HR Data: Maintain and audit HRIS data integrity (Rippling or similar), run reports, and extract and organize HR data across platforms, manipulating datasets in Google Sheets for reporting.
- Partner on Payroll: Partner with Payroll and Finance to ensure employee data, compensation updates, and benefit deductions are accurately reflected for payroll processing.
- Be the First Contact: Serve as a first point of contact for routine employee HR inquiries, providing guidance on HR policies, benefits, and processes.
- Maintain Compliance: Maintain compliance with federal, California, and local employment regulations and HR recordkeeping, and coordinate immigration and visa documentation tracking with external counsel.
- Improve HR Programs: Support HR initiatives including performance cycles, engagement surveys, and employee programs, and help improve HR workflows by maintaining documentation and supporting scalable processes.
What You Bring
- 2+ years of experience in HR, People Operations, or HR administration, with a strong interest in building expertise across HR operations and the employee lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience with HRIS platforms such as Rippling, Workday, or BambooHR, able to navigate systems independently, generate basic reports, and organize operational datasets in Google Sheets.
- Experience supporting benefits administration, onboarding, payroll coordination, or HR documentation, with strong attention to detail, accuracy, and organization across multiple tasks.
- Organized and process-oriented, comfortable following established HR policies while helping improve processes that are still developing, and handling confidential information with discretion.
- Strong communication skills and a people-first mindset, providing clear, professional support to employees and managers.
- Proactive, motivated, curious, and humble: you take ownership and follow through, ask thoughtful questions, bring a roll-up-your-sleeves work ethic, and contribute wherever the team needs.
- Preferred: PHR, SHRM-CP, or California HR certification, visa, immigration, and I-9 experience, startup or high-growth experience, and familiarity with HR workflow or automation tools such as Rippling.
Compensation
$75,000 - $101,000 a year
Samba expects to offer an On-Target Earnings (OTE) of $75,000 - $101,000 per year for roles to be performed in California; actual base salary offered will depend on various factors, including but not limited to, location, experience, and performance. Base salary is just one component of Samba's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include bonuses, short-term incentives, and long-term incentives. In addition, Samba provides health insurance, wellness offerings, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO), and other employee benefits.
Samba is an equal opportunity employer.
Your personal information
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Use of AI in hiring
We may use AI tools to help review applications, analyze resumes, or assess responses. These tools support our recruiting team. People make every hiring decision. To learn more about how we process your data, please reach out.
Skills Required
- 2+ years of experience in HR, People Operations, or HR administration
- Hands-on experience with HRIS platforms such as Rippling, Workday, or BambooHR
- Ability to navigate HRIS systems independently, generate basic reports, and organize operational datasets in Google Sheets
- Experience supporting benefits administration, onboarding, payroll coordination, or HR documentation
- Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and organization across multiple tasks
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion
- Strong communication skills and a people-first mindset
- Organized and process-oriented approach to following and improving HR processes
- PHR, SHRM-CP, or California HR certification
- Experience with visa, immigration, and I-9 processes
- Startup or high-growth company experience
- Familiarity with HR workflow or automation tools such as Rippling
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The Company
What We Do
Samba is a media-intelligence company that combines consented first-party viewership data from streaming, linear TV, the web, and video games with AI to map content, audiences, and outcomes. Its platform gives advertisers, publishers, and media platforms insight into audience behavior and supports campaign planning, targeting, measurement, and optimization across channels. Samba’s data and analytics help clients understand audiences and make marketing decisions.
