Sr Manager, Total Rewards & People Operations

Hungryroot is the only grocery and recipe delivery service designed to make healthy eating simple, personal, and sustainable. Our mission is to help people feel their best by making it easier to shop for, cook and love healthy foods. By leveraging AI to create a truly personalized experience, we save customers time and worry, all while introducing them to new foods and helping them achieve their health objectives. 

People are at the center of everything we do here at Hungryroot. We are a remote-first company with a hub office in NYC. It’s up to you how and where you want to work; we care about outcomes and your contribution to our company. Our work, our decisions, and our culture are deeply-rooted in the values of being positive, proactive, and transparent. We’re incredibly proud of our team and hope that you’ll join us!

Hungryroot is looking for a motivated Senior Manager of Total Rewards & People Operations to join our People team. This position reports directly into our CPO and is a key member of the People Leadership Team. This person will be responsible for all HR systems & back-end people operations, owning compensation & benefits strategy & administration, HR systems, and all employee compliance & reporting. This person will manage our Payroll and Benefits Associate and work closely with our HR Business Partners; they’ll also partner collaboratively with Talent Acquisition and Finance (Accounting & FP&A). 

This role is critical as we grow and scale; this leader will be responsible for a seamless employee experience and elevating our backend manual processes to become more automated and integrated. A great candidate will have a true passion for our mission and values and translate that to how we support and enable our employees. They will see every touch point as a chance to showcase our culture. If you are proactive, analytical, can turn chaos into order and are a highly collaborative people leader, we can’t wait to meet you! 

• Administration & reporting:
• Lead all People Operations functions, such as onboarding / offboarding, benefit & compensation administration, visa-related requests, payroll, and documentation
• Manage the PEO in place (Sequoia) and serve as primary contact and owner of effectiveness of the PEO 
• HR Analytics - develop, manage and communicate people metrics that allow us to gain insights to support business and cultural goals 
• Lead necessary audits (employee data, benefits)
• Lead and manage bi-annual engagement survey, partnering with HRBP team on action items
• Compensation and Benefits:
  • Manage company salary structures and compensation benchmarking 
  • Manage bonus program
  • Manage equity program strategy and administration 
• Lead & manage benefits strategy, inclusive of open enrollment 
• Payroll processing (exempt & non-exempt)
• Lead strategy and execution on PEO, open enrollment and when to bring payroll/benefits in house (inclusive of an RFP process for payroll/HRIS system)
• Manage LOA’s
• Compliance:
• Maintain compliance with local, state, and federal employment laws and regulations
• Compliance reporting (ACA, EEO-1)
• Partner closely with Accounting for proper controls, with an eye towards IPO
• Ensure handbook is regularly updated and compliant for different employee groups 
• Identify and create new policies where necessary 
• HR Technology: 
• Manage and lead relationships with HR technology vendors 
• Implement necessary technology that touches employee experience and improves efficiency of the people team 
• Enable tech & AI to automate processes where possible

• 7+ years in HR / People Operations, including pointed experience in Benefits & Compensation 
• 5+ years managing payroll systems and/or HRIS, ideally across several systems
• 2+ years of people management experience with a player-coach leadership style 
• Knowledge of HR & labor laws for both exempt & non-exempt workforces
• Experience with PEOs and bringing a PEO in-house
• Analytical and data-driven; comfortable using metrics and analysis to drive decision-making and continuous improvement 
• Proactive, nimble, and autonomous; you enjoy figuring things out
• Detail-oriented and empathetic, allowing you to anticipate the impact of your work and decisions on the company and our employees
• Highly collaborative with the ability to partner at all levels 
• Preferred, but not required:
• Pre and post IPO experience
• Project mgmt experience
• Startup experience
• Exempt and non-exempt workforce experience

• Remote-first: work from home, work from our NYC office, work from anywhere. You decide!
• Equity stake
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Universal paid parental leave
• Monthly Hungryroot credit for delicious, healthy groceries
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits including One Medical, Spring Health, LiveHealth, Rightway care concierge, and more
• 401k
• A WFH stipend to support your initial home-office setup

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Our mission to help make healthy eating easy, accessible, and joyful is better served by a diverse workplace. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We have zero-tolerance for harassment or discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.