We grew from $1M to $10M ARR in under 12 months and now serve 10,000+ customers.
Fonio is Europe’s market leader for AI phone agents for SMBs. Now we’re expanding globally and into new products.
We move fast, take ownership, give direct feedback, and avoid politics and unnecessary meetings.
Join one of world's fastest-growing companies.
Your RoleYou 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, 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).
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.
3+ year of People Ops, HR, or Operations experience, ideally startup or scale-up.
Knowledge about US 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.
$70,000–$150,000 salary depending on experience + Equity
Hardware of your choice
Regular team offsites
Paid relocation to Vienna for approximately two months
Work from our New York office with an ambitious team
20 min intro call
30 min skill interview
20 min culture call
Skills Required
- 3+ years of People Operations, HR, or Operations experience
- Experience in a startup or scale-up environment
- Knowledge of US labor law, payroll, and collective agreements
- Structured, hands-on working style
- AI and workflow automation skills
- People-first, low-ego approach and ability to thrive under intensity
- Strong English skills
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.
