Senior Manager, People Operations

KIPP Foundation

Senior Manager overseeing People Operations at KIPP Foundation. Leading HR operations and Total Rewards systems to support employee experience and compliance.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $104,000 - $123,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the execution of compensation and benefits, and retirement programs, ensuring accurate, timely, and consistent delivery across the Foundation.
Administer compensation processes, including salary adjustments, stipends, and compensation cycles, ensuring alignment to established structures and guidelines.
Oversee benefits operations and negotiating benefits renewal in partnership with leadership, ensuring a high-quality employee experience and effective coordination with vendors and internal partners.
Execute HR policies, procedures, and operational protocols, ensuring consistent and compliant application across the organization (e.g., internal talent policies and employee handbook).
Maintain and update HR documentation, ensuring policies are clear, accessible, and aligned to legal and organizational requirements.
Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws through accurate and consistent implementation of HR practices.
Identify gaps in policies and processes and recommend improvements to strengthen clarity, consistency, and compliance.
Own execution of HR operational processes role changes, employee transitions, and offboarding.
Develop and manage dashboards and reports that track key HR operational and Total Rewards metrics.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of talent operations, compensations, benefits and human resources policies HR expertise and knowledge in employment laws across multiple geographic territories.
A track record of delivering great customer service while effectively managing relationships with key stakeholders (e.g., Finance Teams, IT teams), along with advising, influencing, & challenging stakeholders when needed.
Excitement to engage in an innovative and agile environment focused on continuous learning and improvement.
A drive to make decisions through passion for impact, thoughtful analysis, and a consistent lens on equity.
Experience using HR systems (ADP, workforce, ATS, salesforce, etc.)
Aptitude in Analytics, Data, and Strategy: Able to use data analysis and data-driven narratives to affect decision making and create strategy.

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).
100% paid parental leave
100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans.
Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program.
Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.

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Hard Skills & Tools

compensation processesbenefits operationsHR policiesemployment lawsdata analysisHR operational processesTotal Rewards metrics

Soft Skills

customer servicerelationship managementadvisinginfluencingchallenging stakeholderscontinuous learningdecision makingthoughtful analysisequity focus