People Operations Manager (Spain)

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Barcelona, Cataluña, ESP
In-Office
65K-80K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Software
The Role
Own end-to-end people operations after hiring, including contracts, onboarding, payroll, HR tooling, automation, compliance, compensation, events, offboarding, and later employee development. The role builds scalable HR infrastructure for international growth, with particular responsibility for Spanish labor law, payroll, collective agreements, and cross-border employment processes. This is a hands-on, on-site position in Barcelona with solo ownership and close collaboration across departments.
Summary Generated by Built In

We build AI voice agents for small and medium-sized businesses so they never miss a call and can focus on the work they actually love.

Our AI handles every call automatically. But voice is just the beginning. Our vision: to build the world's first fully automated CRM.

8,000+ customers. >€5M ARR. ~30% monthly growth. Target until EOY: €30M.

We live ownership: you own your work end-to-end. No politics, few meetings, direct feedback.

Your Role

You own everything after a candidate signs, from contracts through offboarding, and automate as much of it as possible. We are looking for someone to build the structural backbone to enable rapid scaling.

  • Contracts & onboarding: Manage employment contracts for all employees (direct and indirect employment), organize equipment, accounts, workspaces, and support relocation of international colleagues.

  • HR tooling & automation: introduce and own an HRIS tool, automate workflows across systems.

  • Payroll: Organize and own internal payroll processes, including variable compensation calculation of all sales teams.

  • Compliance & people legal: Support international hiring (EU and non-EU), time-tracking, collective agreements, international taxation topics, etc.

  • Compensation: Manage and monitor compensation bands across teams/countries.

  • Events & culture: Organize internal and external events (hackathons, off-sites, etc.)

  • Offboarding: Manage offboarding of employees.

  • Later, people development: Design feedback cycles, L&D, career development (e.g. SDR academy).

What to Expect
  • Solo, end-to-end ownership of everything people operations.

  • Hands-on operational work to build the foundation for automation/scaling.

  • Direct impact: your work has immediate influence on the culture of fonio.

  • Flat hierarchies: close collaboration across departments.

What You Bring
  • 3+ year of People Ops, HR, or Operations experience, ideally startup or scale-up.

  • Knowledge about Spanish labor law, payroll, and collective agreements

  • Structured, hands-on working style.

  • AI and automation/workflow skills.

  • People-first, low ego. You thrive under intensity.

  • Strong English skills.

What We Offer
  • €65,000 to €80,000 + Equity

  • Relocation support

  • Daily lunch and dinner

  • Equipment of your choice

  • Regular team off-sites

  • On-site in Barcelona, working directly with the core-team

Hiring Process
  1. 20 min intro call

  2. 30 min skill interview

  3. 20 min culture call

Skills Required

  • 3+ years of People Operations, HR, or Operations experience
  • Knowledge of Spanish labor law, payroll, and collective agreements
  • Structured, hands-on working style
  • AI and automation/workflow skills
  • Strong English skills
  • Startup or scale-up experience
  • People-first, low-ego approach and ability to thrive under intensity
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The Company
HQ: Vienna
17 Employees
Year Founded: 2024

What We Do

fonio’s AI phone assistant answers calls, takes the load off your team, and ensures you’re reachable 24/7, so no lead, customer, or opportunity is missed, for businesses of any size.

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