HR) Operations Manager

THE COMPANY

We are NEURAL EARTH
. We bring clarity to physical risk, enabling leaders to engage with confidence and enact resilient, business-critical decisions. Today's environmental, economic, and infrastructure challenges are deeply interconnected, yet the data required to understand these relationships is scattered across siloed and aging systems. Neural Earth enables operational execution, delivering a single decision intelligence platform that unifies planetary, governmental, and asset-level data, always on and always learning.

This is technical work that requires patience. It requires teams willing to operate at the intersection of AI research, geospatial science, distributed systems, and enterprise deployment. It is also incredibly rewarding. Join us at Neural Earth — the next frontier is here.

You will join Neural Earth's G&A Team, reporting to our Chief Financial Officer (CFO), as the first person here dedicated solely to People Operations execution. This is a team of one, and the day-to-day is yours: you will own payroll, hiring, and employee support outright for a company of less than 30 across two legal entities in the US and abroad.

The G&A Team is responsible for Finance, Legal, Operations, and People for the entire company, and you are the expert we are hiring to lead the People needs of the organization.

As the People (HR) Operations Manager, you will own payroll and contractor payments first: payroll administration, tax registrations, W2 management, and accounts payable for contractors across two entities in the US and abroad. From there, you own the entire employee lifecycle and the systems that make it possible (HRIS, ATS, onboarding, leave, hiring). This role also owns the complete hiring process end to end: headcount approval, job description, compensation banding, first-round candidate screens, and partnering with hiring managers all the way to offer.

When headcount opens faster than one person can screen, you will have access to external recruiting support, but the process, the pipeline, and the outcome stay yours. You will shape how we run as a company, from onboarding through the all-hands agenda. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will have both the mandate and the support to get things done.

This is you!

• Manage: Payroll and contractor payments across two entities, in the US and globally: payroll administration, onboarding and offboarding, payroll registration and maintenance; W2 management across Rippling, Gusto, and Quick Books, and accounts payable for contractors, including 1099 reporting.

• Own: The employee lifecycle end to end: policy management, employment documentation and file maintenance, new device management and retrieval, leave administration, and offboarding, across our HRIS.

• Hire: The complete hiring process end to end: headcount approval, job description refinement and approval, ATS administration, first-round candidate screens, compensation, and negotiations through offer.

• Support: Leaders and employees as their day-to-day People partner, advising on people solutions and workforce planning, and building the kind of trust that gets problems brought to you early instead of after they've grown.

• Cultivate: The culture and environment that lets our people do the best work of their lives: reinforcing what we value day to day, building the rhythms and moments (including the all-hands) that keep the company connected, and creating the conditions where performance and growth actually happen.

• You know Rippling deeply, not just how to run a cycle in it, but how to configure it and where it breaks.

• You have registered payroll tax accounts across multiple states and resolved the notices that follow: you can…