Manager, People Operations

About Us

About the role:

As a Manager, People Operations at dbt Labs, you are a key contributor to shape the employee experience and build scalable, efficient processes that support company growth as we scale to 700+ employees over the next 18 months. This role requires a hands-on leader with a player-coach mentality, meaning you aren’t afraid of jumping into the work yourself or delegating/coaching your team to drive operational excellence across the entire employee lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Operational Excellence & Process Improvement: Oversee the People Operations (POPs) team, streamlining workflows, processes and policies to reduce manual effort and ensure efficiency. Continuously review and enhance processes to support scale and future growth.
• Global Expansion & Compliance: Partner with Legal, Finance, & outside immigration counsel to manage international operations, ensure compliance with local regulations, and scale programs and processes into new regions.
• HRIS & Systems Management: Manage HR systems (e.g., ADP, Remote.com, etc) to ensure smooth onboarding, payroll, benefits, and compliance.
• Employee Lifecycle Management: Partner with Centers of Excellence to maintain a seamless employee lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding, ensuring a high-quality employee experience.
• Policy Management: Design, implement, and drive continuous improvement of global People policies. You will support policy governance, oversee operational frameworks, and collaborate across functions to drive consistency and scalability in our people policies.
• Cross-Department Collaboration: Work closely with IT/InfoSec, Talent Acquisition, Finance, Legal, and key business leaders
• Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of 3 People Operations, fostering a high-performance culture and providing ongoing coaching and feedback.

You are a good fit if you have:

• Absolute must-have: Multiple years of experience supporting international operations (onboarding, mobility, immigration) in a growing, global company.
  • Specifically, working with internal/external immigration counsel, Employers of Record, supporting employee sponsorship, travel and visa needs, etc.
• Strong project management skills, with a keen eye for detail and optimization.
• Excellent problem solving capabilities and experience tailoring communication to different stakeholders and cultures.
• A proven ability to multitask, prioritize and manage projects in an extremely fast-paced environment.
• A passion for managing earlier-in-career team members across different geos
• An ability to work highly async for a distributed-first company
• Experience integrating new HR technology (HRIS, etc) and/or driving RFP processes

Compensation & Benefits:

• Salary: $143,000-168,000
• Equity Stake
• Benefits - dbt Labs offers:
  • Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
  • 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
  • Excellent healthcare
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Wellness stipend
  • Home office stipend, and more!

What to expect in the hiring process (all video interviews unless accommodations are needed):

1. Interview with a Talent Acquisition
2. Interview with Hiring Manager
3. Team Interviews with various stakeholders

Who we are

At dbt Labs, we have developed strong opinions on how companies should practice analytics.

Specifically, we believe that:

• Code-based transformations offer unmatched flexibility and transparency across various “multi-player” development to power everyone in the organization to collaborate on a common language
• Data analysts should adopt similar practices and tools to software developers
• Critical analytics infrastructure should be controlled by its users as open source software
• Analytic code itself — not just analytics tools — will increasingly be open source

It turns out that a lot of other people believe this too! Today, there are 30,000 companies using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and 4,100 companies paying for dbt Cloud. Our customers include JetBlue, Hubspot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. dbt is synonymous with the practice of analytics engineering, defining an entire industry. We’re backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter.

dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes a diversity of perspectives, people, and backgrounds regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. We feel strongly that whether or not your experience exactly fits the job description, your passion and skills will stand out and set you apart even if your career has taken some twists and turns. If you are on the fence about whether you meet our requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway! Please reach out to us directly at recruiting@dbtlabs.com if you need assistance or an accommodation.

Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page here.

dbt Labs reserves the right to amend or withdraw the posting at any time. For employees outside the United States, dbt Labs offers a competitive benefits package. Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal or country limitations.