People Operations

Role Description

As Northslope's first People Operations team member, you'll be tasked with improving and managing the entire employee lifecycle, from offer letter to offboarding and everything in between. This isn't a role where you implement cookie-cutter HR playbooks. You'll build and iterate on people systems that actually make sense for our team, our culture, and our growth trajectory to 200+ employees over the next year.

Day to day, you'll tackle everything from benefits administration and equity tracking to compliance coordination and new hire onboarding. You'll be the go-to person for employees navigating questions about their equity, benefits, or workplace policies. You'll work with brokers, payroll providers, and legal counsel to ensure our team is well-supported across multiple countries and jurisdictions. And you'll move fast, juggling multiple workstreams simultaneously while maintaining a high bar for execution and employee experience.

This role requires someone who is deeply entrepreneurial, takes complete ownership of problems from start to finish, and operates with minimal oversight. You'll need to learn quickly (including international benefits administration for UK and Canada), make decisions autonomously, and constantly iterate to improve how we support our people.

What We Look For

• 5+ years of Operations experience, ideally at a high-growth startup or fast-paced company. You've owned meaningful operations projects and have battle scars from scaling through rapid growth.

• Entrepreneurial ownership mindset. You don't need detailed instructions or constant check-ins. You see a problem, you own it end-to-end, and you drive it to completion. You're comfortable operating with ambiguity and building systems from scratch.

• Employee-first orientation. You genuinely care about creating an excellent employee experience. You don't do things because "that's how it's always been done." You question conventions and build solutions that actually make sense for our team.

• Exceptional operational execution. You can juggle many concurrent workstreams without dropping balls. You're hyper-organized, detail-oriented, and maintain high quality even when moving fast.

• Bias toward iteration. You ship quickly, gather feedback, and improve continuously. Nothing is ever "set it and forget it." You're always looking for ways to make things better.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills. You build trust easily with employees at all levels. You can explain complex topics (like equity or benefits) in simple, accessible language. You handle sensitive situations with empathy and discretion.

• Fast, curious learner. You'll need to learn UK and Canadian benefits administration, visa sponsorship processes, and various state-level compliance requirements on the job. You're comfortable diving into unfamiliar territory and figuring things out quickly.

• Comfortable with multi-jurisdictional complexity. We have employees across the US, UK, and Canada. You're energized (not overwhelmed) by managing benefits, payroll, and compliance across multiple countries and 10+ US states.

• Excited to work in-person from our New York office. We believe in-person collaboration makes us stronger, and we're building an office culture people want to be part of.

Company Description

Northslope builds custom products for ambitious organizations that are reinventing their industries, from the largest fortune 500 companies and governments to the smallest startups. We solve our customers' most mission-critical problems with unmatched velocity, bringing their disparate enterprise data into operator-centered workflows that move atoms in the real world and change how people approach their work each day.

We build our products on the Palantir Foundry & AIP platform, the world's first Enterprise Operating system. We focus on enterprise-wide data integration, practical deployment of ML and LLM solutions, and deep understanding of operator's pain points. We build ironman suits for operators, so they can better achieve their mission and deliver more value to the bottom line.

At Northslope, we're built different. Traditional professional services companies are designed for years-long, cookie-cutter projects that stay the same day in and day out. We take pride in being more like a product startup than a traditional services firm. We value velocity, ingenuity, and grit, and we relentlessly focus on delivering tangible outcomes for our customers.

We also have fun. We get to work on big, hard problems, in a fast-paced environment, alongside sharp teammates who help us continuously grow and delight in one another's successes. We offer full benefits and all the perks you'd expect of a modern tech startup, and are a distributed global team with hubs in London, New York, and Denver.

Our Principles

Only Valuable Problems: Not every problem is worth solving. We work on the projects that will significantly improve our customers' bottom lines.

Outcomes, Not Activity: We create value, not extract it. We focus on our business impact, not racking up billable hours.

Forward Deployed Engineering: We never build in a vacuum. We go to the heart of the problem and build alongside our users.

Expand the Possible: We keep our eyes on the horizon to spot new opportunities for value on the platform.

At Northslope, you'll get to build people systems that enable a team of sharp, high-horsepower, caring people who want to win. If you're looking for a fast-paced, high-growth environment where you can make a real impact on employee experience and company culture, we'd love to chat.

Northslope is committed to building a strong, diverse team. We believe teams with a diversity of lived experience, background, and perspectives create better outcomes for our customers and are just more enjoyable to be part of. We are committed to creating and living a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our work. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, disability, pregnancy, age, military status, marital status, genetic characteristics or information, gender, gender identity, gender variance, or sexual orientation.