Senior People Operations Partner

DNSFilter’s mission is to protect our customers and partners with products they love to use! We are revolutionizing network security by providing fast, accurate, and reliable threat protection and content filtering. We're a rapidly growing company dedicated to creating a safer internet for businesses and organizations worldwide. Leveraging AI-driven threat intelligence, DNSFilter empowers our customers to proactively block threats before they impact their networks. We foster a collaborative, innovative, and results-oriented culture where every team member contributes to our mission of making the internet safer.

As we continue our product-fueled growth by adding new features and broadening our solution to meet the needs of the global market, it's clear there's a missing piece. That's where you come in!

We are in search of a Senior People Operations Partner to anchor the operational backbone of our People team. This person owns the day-to-day execution of HR operations, runs HRIS administration, partners with our external compensation consultant on data integrity, and applies AI tools to make the function faster and sharper. 

This is an individual contributor role with high impact. If you take pride in clean data, fast resolution, and finding leverage through tooling and AI, this role is for you. 

This is also a team that invests in its people. You will be brought into employee relations, performance conversations, and other personnel matters early on, with room to grow alongside the operational work.
We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If you feel like this job is for you, please apply. We believe diversity of experience and skills, including transferable skills, combined with passion, is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions!

At DNSFilter, you will:

•       BambooHR administration end-to-end, including configuration, data integrity, reporting, integrations, and full employee lifecycle workflows.

•       15Five operations, including performance review cycle setup, manager enablement, and reporting.

•       Own new hire onboarding experience, including orientation, background checks, I-9 verifications, and system setup

•       Compensation cycle support, working directly with Paidwell, our external compensation consultant, to keep employee, role, leveling, and band data clean and ready for analysis.

•       Detailed operations work across onboarding, offboarding, benefits coordination, leave administration, and compliance tasks.

•       AI tools across the People function, with clear ownership of identifying where AI can save time and training the team on new prompts and workflows.

•       Employee data audits, organizational reporting, and ad hoc analysis for the CPO and senior leadership.

•       Documentation and SOPs that keep the function repeatable as we grow.

•       Accurate documentation and administration of variable compensation structures — bonus targets, commission plans, and MBO plans — serving as the operational bridge between Sales, Finance, and the system of record.

•       Own swag budget and gifting programs for work anniversaries, milestones, referral programs, and new hires

To qualify for this role, you have:

•       5-7 years of HR Operations experience, ideally in a tech or SaaS scaleup environment.

•       Hands-on ownership of an HRIS.

•       At least one full performance review and compensation cycle run, including working with internal or external comp partners on benchmarking and band data.

•       Demonstrated use of AI tools in your last role, with specific examples you can walk through.

•       Detail orientation that shows up in clean data, fewer escalations, and audit-ready files.

•       Comfort with AI tools, Claude 101 certificate is required upon hire.

•       Strong written communication and a service mindset for employees and managers.

•       Discretion and sound judgment with confidential information.

Bonus Points for:

•       15Five administration experience.

•       Experience with employee engagement initiatives

•       Familiarity with talent acquisition/recruitment 

•       Experience with Paidwell or similar comp consulting partners.

•       Advanced spreadsheet skills strong enough for clean data extraction and analysis.

•       Experience working with PEOs/EoRs

We Offer:

• Pathway to promotion to additional organizational positions and responsibilities based upon results and performance, not just time in the chair.  You help us grow, and we will help you grow.

• Passionate and intelligent colleagues who work hard and have a good time doing it

• Paid company-wide week off at the end of each year

• Flexible Vacation Policy

• Awesome company swag

• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US, UK, and Canada-based employees

• Full short-term disability and life benefits; available long-term disability

• Retirement savings account options with vested company matching for qualifying employees

• In-person annual gatherings. Last time we all spent a week on a beach in the Dominican Republic!

DNSFilter is a pay-for-performance organization, which means there is an opportunity to advance your compensation based on performance over time. The hiring base pay is dependent on several factors, including level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and geographic location. As a hybrid company, our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. and global geographic markets. We pay differently based on those defined markets. Our Talent Team can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

DNSFilter participates in the E-Verify program.

At DNSFilter, we utilize sophisticated software and tools to identify and eliminate Deepfake candidates. This approach helps us maintain the integrity of our hiring process, ensuring that we select the most qualified and genuine individuals to join our team.