1 week ago

People Operations Lead

FIDUCIAL

Delft

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Fiducial, a deep-tech startup in Delft, is seeking a People Operations Lead to own and improve People Operations processes as the company scales. The role involves onboarding, contracts, HR workflows, hiring operations, and employee relations, reporting to the COO. Requires 5-10 years of HR generalist experience in the Netherlands, ideally in a startup environment, and offers a hybrid work model.

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AI-enabledHybridFull-timeMid LevelHR Operations

Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Delft, South Holland, Netherlands, NL

Work Model

Hybrid

Experience Required

10 years

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

5-10 years of HR generalist, People Operations, or HR operations experience

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

HR OperationsOnboardingOffboardingEmployee RelationsHRISPayrollComplianceProject ManagementProcess ImprovementDocumentationNotionAshbySlackChatGPTAI Agents

Soft Skills

CommunicationEmpathyAccountabilityLeadershipProblem SolvingAdaptabilityTime ManagementCollaborationOwnershipAutonomyDirect Communication

Preferred Qualifications

Technical (Nice-to-have)

AerospaceRoboticsDefenseHardwareAutomationWorkflow Design

Key Responsibilities

•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 ensure 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.
•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 people processes are grounded in Dutch employment practices while scalable for a distributed European team.
•Improve 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.

People OperationsHRStartupDeep-techDefenseHybridFull-timeNetherlandsDelft

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

HR OperationsOnboardingOffboardingEmployee RelationsHRISPayrollComplianceProject ManagementProcess ImprovementDocumentationNotionAshbySlackChatGPTAI Agents

Soft Skills

CommunicationEmpathyAccountabilityLeadershipProblem SolvingAdaptabilityTime ManagementCollaborationOwnershipAutonomyDirect Communication

Key Responsibilities

•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 ensure 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.

•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 people processes are grounded in Dutch employment practices while scalable for a distributed European team.

•Improve 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.