People Analytics & Operations (Rotational Program)

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together. We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human.

About the Role

You're joining Notion's People Analytics & Operations team as part of an 18-month rotational program—the group that builds the insights engine powering every people decision Notion makes. We look for slope over intercept: we care less about where you trained and more about what you've built. Over 18 months, you'll rotate across people operations, people analytics, and compensation/benefits. Every rotation is real work with real ownership.

At the end of 18 months, you'll declare a focus area and move into a permanent team within the People org—whether that's People Analytics, People Operations, Total Rewards, or staying broad as a high-impact People generalist. We're intentionally building the next generation of the People team from within.

Responsibilities

• Build the insights engine: Write SQL that powers our headcount, attrition, and hiring funnel dashboards. Transform raw people data from Workday and Snowflake into crisp analyses that drive real decisions. For example, build a model that identifies where we're losing great candidates and propose a process fix.
• Run the HR operations engine: Execute employee lifecycle transactions in Workday (new hires, transfers, terminations), coordinate onboarding and offboarding end-to-end, triage and resolve employee requests, support compliance and audit readiness, and keep headcount and requisition data clean. For example, own the full ops flow for an onboarding cohort and surface process gaps that shorten time-to-productivity.
• Tell the story in data: Take a messy people question and produce a clean narrative—numbers to insights to recommended decision. Own the analytical arc end-to-end, from pulling the data to presenting it to senior leadership.
• Prototype AI-assisted workflows: Identify manual, repetitive work across HR operations and replace it with smarter solutions—automated onboarding task routing, AI-assisted ticket triage, offboarding checklists that run themselves, compliance reminders that don’t require a human to send. You’ll have real latitude to experiment and ship things that outlive your rotation.
• Build and own our Notion workspace: Be the People team's Notion expert. Create pages, databases, dashboards, and views—building operating systems the whole team relies on. From day one, you’ll be the person others come to when they want to do something in Notion they didn’t know was possible.

Requirements

• SQL is your native language: You don’t reach for SQL when you have to; you reach for it when you want to think. You can write queries that join, filter, aggregate, and transform data. You debug the wrong answer and figure out exactly why it’s wrong.
• Quantitatively sharp: You think in numbers. You’ve studied business, economics, statistics, or mathematics, and it showed up in your work. Analytical storytelling—connecting numbers to insights to decisions—is a skill you’ve already started building.
• High agency, high urgency: You don’t wait for perfect instructions. When something’s broken, you fix it. When there’s ambiguity, you make a call. We care more about what you’ve built and how fast you learn than where you trained.
• AI-fluent: You use AI tools every day as a real multiplier, not a novelty. You know when Claude drafts it faster, when a formula is cleaner, and when you need to write the code yourself. Come ready to show us how you’ve used AI to do something you couldn’t have done alone.
• Notion power user: You live in Notion. You know the difference between a filtered view and a linked database. You get excited when you find a cleaner way to structure something. From day one, you’ll be one of the most fluent Notion users on the People team.

Nice to Haves

• Some exposure to Python—enough to know what a loop is and when to reach for one.
• Familiarity with Workday, Snowflake, or similar HRIS or data warehouse tools.
• Prior experience in a business operations, finance, or sales operations context (internships count).

Pay

For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $40.87 - $59.62 hourly.