People Operations Generalist

About the role

The People Operations Generalist will support the HR operations, employee communications, and people programs in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment. They will own and execute key HR operations processes across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, role and reporting changes, benefits administration, HR systems management, compliance, and employee communications.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted first point of contact for employees on HR processes, policies, benefits, systems, and general people-related questions.
• Ensure operational excellence. Manage and continuously improve employee lifecycle processes, including onboarding, offboarding, employee changes, employment verifications, I-9 documentation, immigration support, and personnel record maintenance.
• Own benefits administration, partnering with Director of People Operations and external vendors to ensure accurate, timely, and employee-friendly execution.
• Maintain accurate employee data and documentation across HR systems, reports, distribution lists, organization charts, compliance records, and related people operations tools.
• Coordinate required compliance training, including Code of Conduct, anti-discrimination and anti-harassment training, and future public-company readiness topics.
• Drive continuous improvement of People Operations workflows to improve consistency, scalability, documentation hygiene, and the employee experience.
• Support employee engagement, and internal community and culture initiatives, including social committee activities, DEI-related programming, and employee communications.
• Partner flexibly across the People function to support emerging priorities as the company grows and prepares for increased operational complexity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; typically 5+ years of relevant HR or People Operations experience.
• Experience in biotech, life sciences, pharmaceutical, or another regulated, fast-growing environment strongly preferred.
• Strong operational orientation with the ability to manage details accurately while improving processes for scale.
• Working knowledge of employee lifecycle processes, benefits administration, HR systems, compliance training, and employee documentation.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment where the role will stretch across multiple HR workstreams, and priorities may shift based on business need.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact professionally and confidentially with employees at all levels.
• Highly organized, proactive, collaborative, flexible, and self-motivated, with strong follow-through and sound judgment.
• A desire and ability to work in a dynamic, collaborative environment; you build productive and healthy relationships within and across functions.
• Collaborative and accountable – recognizes success requires teamwork and interdisciplinary thinking; you share feedback and constructively challenge and accept challenges to generate the best ideas to advance project and company goals.
• Self-motivated, with a proven ability to meet objectives, timelines, and high standards managing multiple responsibilities in parallel.
• Flexible – able to operate and adapt in a fast paced, rapidly developing environment.
• Curious and humble – seeks and welcomes input/expertise of others, continuous learner.
• Tenacious and resilient – is not easily overwhelmed by challenges, delivers on commitments, operates with urgency.

Benefits

Obsidian is committed to equitable and transparent pay practices. The anticipated base salary range for this role is $95,500—$117,000 USD. Our competitive compensation package includes an annual incentive bonus as a percentage of actual base salary and long-term incentives in the form of employee stock options, both of which are commensurate with the role’s level. We also offer a generous benefits package which includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; company contributions to health savings and retirement accounts; ample paid time off; access to wellness programs; and rich career growth opportunities.