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Cohere, a leading enterprise AI company, is hiring a People Systems and Automation Manager to redesign and automate HR processes as the company scales rapidly. This is a hands-on role that combines process design with technical automation across the company's HR tech stack (Rippling, Slack, Notion, and integrations).
You will own the complete employee lifecycle—from onboarding through offboarding—and be responsible for eliminating manual work, closing gaps between People, IT, Finance, and Payroll, and building internal mobility processes (promotions, transfers, manager changes, entity changes). The role requires both designing processes and executing them, ensuring you understand operational realities before automating.
Key responsibilities include: mapping current processes (not idealized ones), redesigning before automating to avoid locking in existing problems, building workflows and automations across the HRIS and tooling ecosystem, designing for exceptions and edge cases, removing manual handling and human error, and documenting everything with SOPs and runbooks that others can maintain.
You'll measure impact in hours saved, tickets reduced, and errors eliminated. You'll also design processes that scale with the company and support future audit and compliance requirements, working closely with IT and Finance on necessary controls and evidence.
Ideal candidates have built People Ops/HR Systems at fast-growing companies (ideally through a doubling), have been through HRIS implementations, have personally built workflows and automations in HR systems, think in systems (triggers, conditions, failure modes), and write clearly with strong documentation habits. Experience running operations across multiple countries, entities, EOR, or contractor populations is valued. Bonus experience includes Rippling implementation, APIs/webhooks/integration tooling, and IPO readiness or SOC 2/SOX preparation.
Cohere is remote-friendly with offices globally. The company offers comprehensive benefits including health/dental, RRSP/401K matching, 100% parental leave top-up for 6 months, 6 weeks paid vacation, education stipends, and a $500 home office stipend.
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