TAR
People Operations Manager
Austin · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in office management, people operations, HR, executive support, or a generalist operations role at a startup or similar environment.
About the job
Owns the operational backbone of TAR, executing and improving office, payroll, HR, travel, expense, event, and leadership-support processes as the company scales.
What you'll do
- Run office operations, payroll and core HR administration, including onboarding, offboarding, benefits, PTO, employment paperwork, and records.
- Manage team travel, expenses, events, and scheduling for founders and leadership.
- Build lightweight, documented, repeatable processes across HR, payroll, expenses, and scheduling; handle urgent unowned work.
What they ask for
- 3+ years in office management, people operations, HR, executive support, or generalist operations at a startup or similar environment.
- Hands-on experience running payroll and core HR administration, including onboarding, offboarding, benefits, PTO, and employment paperwork.
- Working knowledge of basic US employment compliance and HR recordkeeping.
- Exceptional attention to detail, reliability, problem-solving, communication, follow-through, discretion, and judgment.
Nice to have
- Experience standing up payroll or expense systems at an early-stage company; familiarity with a modern HRIS/payroll platform and expense management tool.
- Bookkeeping or finance-adjacent experience.
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