People Operations Specialist (Contract)

About the role

Join a fast-paced People Operations team and help create a smooth, accurate, and supportive employee experience across onboarding, HR systems, and people services. This contract role is a great opportunity for a detail-oriented professional who enjoys partnering cross-functionally, improving processes, and keeping employee data and workflows running effectively.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day onboarding for new hire groups, ensuring a well-organized and positive start experience
• Support contingent worker onboarding by collecting required information, initiating background checks, and confirming start details
• Process employee status changes, including full-time to part-time transitions, contractor updates, and related vendor communications
• Maintain accurate employee records in HR systems and help ensure data consistency across connected tools
• Partner with People Partners, Payroll, Legal, IT, and Internal Tools teams to support employee data and compliance-related processes
• Triage and respond to employee questions and requests through the people tickets queue
• Help create and maintain onboarding guides, process documentation, and internal FAQs
• Support a collaborative team environment and help cover key onboarding and ticket workflows as needed

Skills

• Experience supporting HR operations, people services, or similar administrative workflows
• Strong familiarity with HR systems; Workday experience is strongly preferred
• Ability to manage sensitive employee information with accuracy, discretion, and care
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Clear written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional coordination
• Customer service mindset with a thoughtful, solution-oriented approach
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment where priorities may shift
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to process improvement

Preferred Skills

• Experience working at a high-growth or fast-moving technology company
• Exposure to tools such as Greenhouse or Checkr
• Experience supporting onboarding for both contingent workers and full-time employees
• Background in building or improving internal documentation and process playbooks
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders across People, IT, Legal, and Payroll