Manager, People Operations

About Us

Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help analysts create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt Labs pioneered the practice of analytics engineering, built the primary tool in the analytics engineering toolbox, and has been fortunate enough to see a fantastic community coalesce to help push the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow. Today there are 30,000 companies using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and over 4,100 dbt Cloud customers. You can learn more about our values here.  

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
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