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PhotoRoom is a leading visual solution for e-commerce, founded in 2019 and part of Y Combinator's 2020 cohort. The company has raised Series B funding, reached 300+ million users worldwide, and processes over 5 billion images annually, serving enterprises like Amazon, DoorDash, and Decathlon through mobile, web, and API platforms. The team comprises 100+ builders focused on craft, innovation, and collaboration.
You will be the first dedicated Senior People Operations Manager, owning and improving the systems, processes, and operational foundations of the People function across all markets. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the VP People with no direct reports.
Key responsibilities include:
**Payroll & Compliance**: Own monthly payroll for France and European populations, plus twice-monthly US payroll. Manage relationships with payroll, EOR, and employment providers. Maintain French statutory obligations, HR compliance calendar, employee records, social declarations, DUERP requirements, and CSE operational administration including convocations, agendas, meeting prep, and budget administration. Monitor employment law developments and coordinate compliance across European and US setups.
**Contracts & Documentation**: Manage employment contracts, amendments, offer letters, attestations, and HR letters. Set service levels for recurring requests and build practical People playbooks and documentation.
**Employee Lifecycle**: Administer onboarding from offer signature through day one, coordinating payroll, benefits, declarations, IT access, and equipment. Handle offboarding, promotions, compensation changes, leaves, parental leave, and immigration/visa administration.
**Benefits & Compensation**: Administer benefits across France, Europe, and the US. Run annual renewals with Finance and VP People. Support compensation benchmarking and salary band maintenance.
**HRIS, Data & Automation**: Own HRIS (currently Hibob) configuration, permissions, workflows, integrations, and data quality. Make HRIS the reliable source of truth. Assess opportunities to consolidate or improve the HR technology stack. Automate repetitive workflows.
**Employee Support**: Build documentation, workflows, and self-service infrastructure to enable employees to solve standard requests independently while handling exceptions and escalations.
The role exists because PhotoRoom has built quickly with French and USA payroll obligations, European employees through EOR, growing Paris and New York offices, and multiple benefits providers. The goal is to move from processes dependent on individual knowledge and manual intervention to a documented, automated, measurable, and self-service operating model that scales with the company.
**Requirements:**
- Hands-on experience owning a meaningful People Operations scope in a fast-moving company of 100+ employees
- Hands-on experience with French payroll and employment compliance
- Experience owning People Operations processes, workflows, and controls
- HRIS experience (Hibob a plus, but experience configuring and improving comparable systems matters more)
- Systems mindset and strong instinct for automation
- Excellent operational judgment, knowing which issues to solve independently and which require specialist advice
- High standards of accuracy, discretion, and follow-through
- Comfort operating independently in a small team, both designing and running processes
- Fluent French and English (English is the working language; French payroll and employment law environment is French)
- Based in Paris, able to work from the office at least three days per week
