People Operations

People Operations Professional

We are looking for a People Operations professional to build and scale the systems, programs, and processes that power our team. You'll ensure that Tandem's people infrastructurespanning onboarding, compensation, benefits, compliance, performance, and cultureruns smoothly, efficiently, and with excellence.

You will serve as the operational backbone for the employee lifecycle and a strategic partner to leaders across the company. This role blends execution and strategy : building scalable systems while staying close to the day-to-day employee experience.

This is a high-impact, high-visibility role for someone who loves precision, thrives in ambiguity, and takes pride in operational excellence. If you are deeply organized, data-driven, and motivated by helping exceptional people do their best work, we want to meet you.

If you join, you will :

• Own and optimize end-to-end people processes : onboarding, offboarding, benefits, compensation, performance, compliance, and engagement
• Maintain data integrity across HR systems (HRIS, payroll, ATS) and serve as the system administrator for core people tools
• Partner with Finance on payroll, headcount planning, and compensation cycles
• Ensure compliance with all employment regulations and internal policy standards
• Build scalable frameworks and SOPs for hiring, feedback, and employee development
• Work with leadership to improve the employee experiencefrom first day to last
• Manage and track key people metrics and reporting to enable better decision-making
• Lead and support company-wide programs (e.g., engagement surveys, performance reviews, recognition programs)
• Serve as a trusted point of contact for employeeshandling questions with empathy, discretion, and clarity
• Drive operational excellence by continuously identifying opportunities to automate, simplify, or improve existing processes

We'll be most excited if you have :

This is a list of ideal qualifications for this position. If you don't meet every single one of them, you should still consider applying! We're excited to work with people from underrepresented backgrounds, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

Tandem is based in New York, with our full team working out of a beautiful and spacious office in SoHo.

We run as a high-trust environment with high autonomy, which requires that everyone is fully competent and operates in line with our principles :

We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity (for full-time employees). Everyone who joins early will be a major contributor to our success, and we reflect this through ownership and pay.

We also provide rich benefits to ensure you can focus on creating impact (for full-time employees) :

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our company's size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Tandem (for full-time employees). Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity. Tandem is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.