People & Talent Operations Lead

AI-first robotics company building flexible robotic assembly factories for U.S. manufacturing and dual-use applications.

San Francisco, United States
About Foundry Robotics

Foundry Robotics operates AI-driven robotic cells for assembly, including defense and dual-use robotics, battery-pack assembly, and advanced hardware sub-assemblies.

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About the Role

You will own people operations infrastructure for salaried and shift-based employees, including onboarding, HRIS, payroll, benefits, leave, immigration, and compliance. You will configure Rippling workflows and reporting, automate recurring processes, manage people data, and quantify the cost of poor hiring decisions.

Requirements

  • Hands-on Rippling configuration experience
  • 5+ years of People Operations experience
  • Experience supporting an hourly or shift-based workforce
  • Experience analyzing attrition, retention, and span of control
  • Experience using AI tools to automate work
  • Knowledge of multi-state employment, wage and hour, and production-environment compliance
  • American citizenship

Responsibilities

  • Own onboarding, HRIS, payroll, benefits, leave, immigration, and multi-state compliance
  • Run Rippling workflows, approvals, onboarding, offboarding, provisioning, and reporting
  • Automate recurring people operations processes using AI tools
  • Manage headcount, attrition, retention, span-of-control, and flight-risk data
  • Quantify the cost of a bad hire

Benefits

  • Equity compensation
  • Comprehensive health coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Generous PTO