Sr. Manager, Global People Operations

About Vercel:

Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web.

Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you're building on our platform, supporting our customers, or shaping our story: You can just ship things.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Sr. Manager, Global People Operations to join our team to lead the strategy and execution of Vercel’s programs supporting our team outside the US. This role ensures our international footprint operates with precision, consistency, and compliance to support our teams across EMEA, APAC, Canada and LATAM.

As part of the People Ops leadership team, you’ll have the opportunity to scale compliant and efficient operations globally, managing how we hire, support, and enable talent in the global regions. You’ll lead programs like entity expansion for workforce planning, EOR partnership, contingent workforce management, and global mobility (including immigration and relocation).

Your work will make it easier for our teams worldwide to move fast while maintaining operational excellence and local compliance.

What You Will Do:

• Drive programs supporting our employees and broader People Team strategy outside the US, including vendor management, and workflows that deliver consistent, high-quality employee experiences across regions.
• Lead Vercel’s entity expansion strategy for workforce planning, evaluating new markets and operational readiness in partnership with Legal and Finance.
• Manage EOR and benefits vendors across 25+ countries, ensuring scalable processes, service quality, and accurate employee data.
• Oversee contingent workforce operations, developing frameworks for compliant and flexible engagement models globally.
• Drive global mobility programs, including immigration, relocation, and international transfers, ensuring seamless experiences for employees and hiring managers.
• Partner cross-functionally with Legal, Finance, IT, and Talent Acquisition to implement scalable, compliant systems for a rapidly growing international workforce.
• Lead and mentor a distributed team (including the Senior People Operations Specialist and regional cross-functional partners) to build operational consistency, documentation, and process excellence.

About You:

• Have 10+ years of HR operations and at least 5+ years of people leadership experience, focused on designing global frameworks that account for local nuance in the EMEA, APAC, Canada and LATAM regions.
• Have a proven track record scaling global operations including entity setup, data and system compliance, benefits, immigration, EOR, and contingent workforce programs within global or hypergrowth tech environments.
• Are naturally highly collaborative, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders, drive alignment with regions and functions and work across time zones.
• Are passionate about crafting exceptional employee experiences through thoughtful processes.
• Have the ability to drive strategy and to easily dive into operational details when needed.
• Operate with high integrity when dealing with sensitive employee data, situations and escalations.

Bonus If You:

• Bring experience managing vendors or operations partnering with a US leadership team in a scaling global tech company with a widespread global footprint.

• Have implemented and scaled a HRIS system, and EOR, global mobility and contingent workforce programs.

• Have a deep understanding of EMEA employment policies and practices, and knowledge about APAC and the Americas is a plus.

• Thrive in ambiguity and bring structure to complex, global challenges.

What exceptional looks like on the People Team

• Make it fast, make it count: We donʼt just complete tasks. We move with urgency, hungry to deliver value now. If somethingʼs not shipped, it nags at us. This isnʼt about chaos or hustle theater. Itʼs a sharp focus on what matters and momentum to match. At most companies, people teams are steady and methodical. At Vercel, speed signals ownership, not recklessness.
• Know the business, fly high and low: We understand how Vercel works. The product, the market, the w