People Operations Lead

About Circadia Health

Circadia Health is a growth-stage healthcare AI company on a mission to prevent avoidable hospitalizations and transform senior-care operations. Our Circadia Intelligence Platform combines:

• Contactless sensing that monitors respiration and motion with medical-grade accuracy

• Native predictive models that detect 85% of preventable adverse events several days in advance

• Enterprise integrations that operationalize predictions directly inside EHR, care-coordination, billing, and compliance workflows

Today, our technology touches 40,000+ post-acute patients daily across skilled-nursing, home-health, and home-care networks. We are backed by leading healthcare and AI investors and headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

You will own the entire people function at Circadia, excluding recruiting — a solo operator running comp & benefits, the employee lifecycle, culture, compliance, and people systems for a workforce that spans office, clinical, and field staff across the US, UK, and Pakistan.

You’ll start as a solo operator, and as Circadia scales you’ll build out the People Operations function — designing the roadmap, making the case for headcount, and hiring and leading the team. You are the owner of how it feels to work here: the person employees naturally come to, and the person leadership relies on to keep a multi-state, multi-country company compliant and humane at the same time.

• Compensation & benefits: Comp band administration and offer calibration with Finance, benefits design and vendor management, payroll/benefits administration oversight through our PEO/HRIS stack, and equity administration coordination with Finance and Legal.

• Employee lifecycle: Onboarding, offboarding and terminations, performance management (review cycles, promotions, PIPs), and retention analysis.

• Culture & employee experience: Build genuine relationships across a distributed, multi-country workforce and keep a real pulse on what people are happy about, what they’re not, and what we can do better — then act on it. Own culture programming and values reinforcement, the employee experience end to end, and the ombudsman channel (intake, triage, and escalation).

• Employee relations: Guide people and managers through the moments that matter — leaves, life events, hard conversations, exits — with discretion and judgment that protect both our people and the company. Run investigations with documentation discipline, partnering with counsel on serious matters.

• Compliance & policy: Own the handbook and people policies, multi-state wage/hour and classification compliance, leave management, and occupational health requirements for field and clinical staff. Coordinate immigration if sponsorship arises and oversee automated compliance training.

• International & distributed: UK employment (contracts, statutory benefits, local compliance or EOR), Pakistan employment/EOR management, and multi-state compliance as the field workforce grows.

• Manager enablement: Partner with our first-time managers on feedback, development, and retention — not just process training — so employees feel they’re progressing and fairly assessed.

• Systems & data: Own the HRIS and people-tech stack — evaluate, implement, and replace systems as we scale — plus people data and reporting for leadership (headcount, attrition, org metrics), and continuous streamlining of HR workflows with modern tooling and AI.

• High EQ and warmth. People naturally feel comfortable coming to you; you build trust quickly and at every level — office, clinical, and field.

• Operational rigor. You can take a program — onboarding, an immigration case, a leave process, an investigation — and run it cleanly from beginning to end without dropping details.…