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Junction

People Operations Manager

Posted 3 Days Ago
In-Office or Remote
20 Locations
Senior level
In-Office or Remote
20 Locations
Senior level
As People Operations Manager, you will optimize HR systems, enhance employee experience, manage onboarding, and support lifecycle operations in a fast-scaling startup.
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Healthcare is in crisis and the people behind the results deserve better. With data exploding across wearables, lab tests, and patient–doctor interactions, we’re entering an era where data is abundant.

Junction is building the infrastructure layer for diagnostic healthcare, making patient data accessible, actionable, and automated across labs and devices. Our mission is simple but ambitious: use health data to unlock unprecedented insight into human health and disease.

If you're passionate about how technology can supercharge healthcare, you’ll fit right in.

Backed by Creandum, Point Nine, 20VC, YC, and leading angels, we’re working to solve one of the biggest challenges of our time: making healthcare personalized, proactive, and affordable. We’re already connecting millions and scaling fast.

Short on time? TL;DR

  • You: People Ops builder who loves systems, process, and making the employee experience smooth end-to-end

  • Us: Global , scaling fast - we need People Ops to keep up

  • Salary:

    • EST: $130,000 - $170,000

    • GMT: £60,000 - £80,000

    *The range is broad on purpose — we care more about getting the right person than boxing this into one level. Final comp depends on location and level.

  • Location: Fully remote (either EST or GMT based)

Why we need you

As we scale from ~35 to 70+ (minimum), everything compounds: onboarding, benefits, lifecycle changes, documentation, tooling, leavers. When People Ops is done well, it fades into the background and people just feel supported. When it’s not, everyone notices.

This role is about making People Ops work, every time — and helping make Junction a place people genuinely remember as a great chapter in their career.

You’ll report directly to Lyn (Head of Talent) and work across the company to build a workplace that runs smoothly and feels human. We’re a distributed team, so a big part of the job is making sure our systems and culture work just as well async as they do live.

What you’ll be doing day to day

  • Own our People systems end-to-end: HRIS, onboarding, benefits, access, documentation. Keep things clean, joined up, and reliable.

  • Run the employee experience: from offer → onboarding → changes → leavers. Consistent, clear, and human.

  • Build the foundations that let us scale: workflows, templates, policies. Enough structure to work well without slowing people down.

  • Handle payroll-related ops: coordinating inputs, deductions, and exit processes.

  • Be the go-to person: for lifecycle questions, “how do I…?” moments, and the things that come up when a company is growing fast.

  • Automate the repeatable stuff: Slack workflows, self-serve processes, and anything that reduces constant interrupts.

  • Continuously improve how things run: you’ll spot what’s clunky, fix it, and make the next version better.

  • Own the moments that matter: first days, anniversaries, milestones, and team moments that help a distributed team feel connected.

Requirements

  • Startup / high-growth People Ops experience: you’ve done this before and are comfortable building from scratch.

  • Systems-first mindset: you care about tools, integrations, and workflows that don’t break under pressure.

  • Detail-oriented and discreet: you handle sensitive topics (benefits, payroll, exits) with accuracy and care.

  • High ownership: you don’t wait to be told what’s broken — you notice it and fix it.

  • Comfortable in distributed, global teams: ideally across the US and Europe, or in a multi-entity setup.

  • A culture carrier: you care about the moments and rituals that make work feel meaningful.

What this role isn’t

  • A People Partner / HRBP role: this isn’t mainly manager coaching, performance frameworks, or org design. It’s People Ops.

  • Low-systems work: a big part of the job is tools, workflows, documentation, and making things integrate properly.

  • A “everything is already set up” environment: a lot is still being built — that’s the job.

  • Slow or overly formal: we move quickly and stay practical. The goal is “works well,” not “perfect.”

  • Purely tactical: you’ll be hands-on, but you’re also expected to build the next version of how People Ops runs.

  • A people manager role: this is a high-ownership IC role. You’ll be doing the work.

  • Your salary is dependant on your location and experience level, generated by our salary calculator. Read more in our handbook here.

  • Generous early stage options (extended exercise post 2 years employment) - you will receive 3 offers based on how much equity you'd like

  • Regular in person offsites, last were in Morocco and Tenerife

  • Bi-weekly team happy hours & events remotely

  • Monthly learning budget of $300 for personal development/productivity

  • Flexible, remote-first working - including $1K for home office equipment

  • 25 days off a year + national holidays

  • Healthcare cover depending on location

Oh and before we forget:

  • Backend Stack: Python (FastAPI), Go, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud BigTable, etc), Temporal Cloud

  • Frontend Stack: TypeScript, Next.js

  • API docs are here: https://docs.junction.com/

  • Company handbook is here with engineering values + principles

Important details before applying:

  • We only hire folks physically based in GMT and EST timezones - more information here.

  • We do not sponsor visas right now given our stage

Top Skills

Fastapi
Go
Google Cloud Platform
Next.Js
Postgres
Python
Typescript

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