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Founding Senior HR Generalist / People Operations Lead (ONSITE IN SF)
PulseRise Technologies
1 day ago
Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, California, United States
$160,000 - $185,000 USD yearly
Dear applicants, please keep in mind that applications without provided salary expectations and active LN profile will not be considered.
Hope for your understanding.
Location: San Francisco, CA (5 days/week)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Compensation: $160,000 – $185,000
Visa: Not available
Employment Type: Full-Time
Compensation: $160,000 – $185,000
Visa: Not available
We are hiring our first dedicated HR leader to build and own the People function from the ground up. This is not a strategic CHRO role. This is a hands-on operational builder role. AI company building enterprise AI agents across voice, chat, and email for major B2C companies. Recently raised $61M and scaling rapidly. The company operates lean, with strong autonomy and clear commercial traction. The business is at an inflection point — scaling headcount and formalizing internal operations.
You will:
- Own the full employee lifecycle
- Bring structure to informal processes
- Maintain compliance in California employment environment
- Partner closely with Finance and external counsel
- Build scalable HR foundations
- Once fundamentals are in place, the role may expand into performance management, manager enablement, and broader People initiatives.
What You’ll Own
- End-to-end onboarding and offboarding
- Employment documentation and agreements
- Rippling (source of truth)
- Benefits administration and broker relationships
- Payroll partnership and compliance
- Terminations and severance handling
- California employment law application
- Building scalable HR workflows
- Supporting future performance and culture initiatives
Must-Have Requirements
- 4–7 years of HR experience
- Prior experience as first or early HR hire at a venture-backed startup
- California employment law fluency
- HRIS fluency (Rippling preferred)
- Payroll fundamentals and Finance partnership experience
- Experience handling terminations and severance with sound judgment
- Based in SF Bay Area, 5 days in-office
Nice to Have
- Rippling expertise
- Experience supporting sales orgs (commission structures)
- Multi-state or international employment exposure
- Performance management process design
- Broader People Ops experience