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People Operations Lead

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People Operations Lead improving HR processes at a deep-tech startup in the Netherlands. Managing core people operations while supporting international hiring and operational scalability.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeDelft • 🇳🇱 NetherlandsSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build and run core People Operations processes across the employee lifecycle
  • Own workflows for contracts, onboarding, offboarding, employee records, HRIS/data hygiene, policies, and documentation
  • Manage probation tracking and make sure managers hold timely review conversations
  • Maintain and improve the employee handbook and core people documentation
  • Work closely with Finance on payroll, employment cost tracking, and related approvals, coordinating with external advisors where needed
  • Identify people risks early and escalate clearly to the COO and leadership team
  • Support hiring managers with role setup, interview process, candidate communication, offer workflows, and hiring process discipline
  • Work closely with technical recruiters on niche talent sourcing, candidate pipeline quality, hiring priorities, interview process, and offer coordination
  • Support remote and international hiring, including employment, payroll, contract, relocation, and onboarding approaches for hires in other European countries
  • Coordinate 30% ruling applications for eligible employees in the Netherlands with external advisors
  • Ensure our people processes are grounded in Dutch employment practices while scalable enough for a distributed European team
  • Improve our trackers, templates, checklists, dashboards, and operating rhythms for people processes
  • Turn ambiguous people operations problems into practical workflows with clear owners, timelines, and next steps
  • Drive follow-through across managers, hiring teams, external advisors, and internal stakeholders
  • Use tools such as Notion, Ashby, HRIS platform, Slack, ChatGPT, and AI agents to reduce manual work and improve visibility
  • Gradually help build lightweight processes for performance reviews, salary reviews, role clarity, and future People function scaling

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5–10 years of HR generalist, People Operations, or HR operations experience in the Netherlands
  • Experience in an international startup, scale-up, or fast-changing environment
  • Experience supporting remote or distributed teams, with a strong ability to figure out employment practices in other European countries
  • Strong knowledge of international hiring practices and the employee lifecycle: onboarding, contracts, HR administration, employee relations, performance support, and offboarding
  • Excellent documentation, process-building, and follow-up discipline
  • Strong project management instincts: you know how to create owners, timelines, trackers, and next steps
  • A builder mindset: you like creating useful systems, not just maintaining existing ones
  • The confidence to push back constructively and hold people to agreed processes
  • Interest in growing with the company and eventually helping build a broader People team

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 25 vacation days per year
  • Reimbursed travel expenses and company laptop
  • Flexible working hours and option to work from home 2 days per week
  • A hands-on environment where your work will directly improve how the company operates
  • A chance to build the People function from the ground up and grow with the company
  • The opportunity to shape the future People team, not just operate existing processes
  • A fast-moving, mission-driven technical startup environment
  • A culture that values ownership, autonomy, direct communication, and practical problem-solving

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Hard Skills & Tools
OnboardingOffboardingHR AdministrationEmployee RelationsPerformance SupportContract ManagementData HygieneProbation TrackingDocumentation ManagementEmployee Lifecycle Management
Soft Skills
Follow-Up DisciplineBuilder MindsetConstructive PushbackCollaborationCommunication