USD per year
People Operations and Payroll Lead
Barcelona; Paris; London; Vilnius; Skopje Join Proton and build a better internet where privacy is the default Proton was founded in 2014 by scientists from CERN on a simple truth: privacy is a fundamental human right. Since then, we’ve built the world’s largest encrypted email service (Proton Mail) and expanded into Proton VPN, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, and Proton Calendar—tools used by millions globally to protect their freedom, fight censorship, and keep their data safe. In some situations, Proton has literally helped save lives. We are profitable, independent (no VC control), and selectively hire from the top ~1% of applicants. Our 500+ team members across 50+ countries come from leading organizations and elite academic backgrounds. We move fast, keep hierarchy light, and prioritize impact over optics. If you want to do meaningful work with exceptionally high-caliber people, this is it. Join us and do work you can truly be proud of. Check our open-source projects here! Role overview The Proton team is currently distributed across 9 different offices (Geneva, Zurich, London, Paris, Barcelona, Skopje, Taipei, Prague and Vilnius) or engaged remotely in many other countries worldwide. Reporting to the People Experience Manager, you'll manage, mentor and develop a team of 4-5 People Operations & Payroll Partners across different locations, standing for our people’s day-to-day experience, facilitating their work life and positively influencing their productivity/engagement internationally. Some of our current projects include:
- Improving our next generation HRIS, fully integrated with its ecosystems, to gain simplification and automation in our processes.
- Designing and Streamlining the collaboration with a recently implemented global payroll provider, fully integrated with HRIS and Finance systems to gain efficiency at scale.
- Improve the automated contractual management system and scaling our immigrations processes.
Your engagement and due diligence will directly impact the retention of our talent, while you'll also contribute to the echoing reputation and success of Proton by ensuring compliance and integrity in all our people processes. We're a growing company, with a good level of business maturity but without the burden of corporate processes. Agility and velocity are commonplace at Proton, making this role a unique opportunity to innovate and develop your own way of leading our People Operations & Payroll team. What you’ll do
- Ensure engagement of your direct reports and provide them guidance on day-to-day responsibilities
- Oversee the HRIS (HiBob), ensuring data accuracy and integrity
- Drive exceptional experience throughout the entire team members' lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding
- Oversee and coordinate payroll systems, providers and processes
- Ensure compliance with local employment laws and regulations
- Make sure that effective controls and people policies aligned with Proton's goals are in place to meet auditable processes as required
- Manage HR projects and initiatives as defined
What you'll bring
- 5+ years of experience in HR operations or people business partnering, including experience in people management (3+ direct reports ideally) or in people mentoring,...
Proton stands for privacy. Always has, always will. Proton is committed to putting people before profits and building a better internet with privacy-first services such as Proton Mail, Proton VPN, and others. The company has more than 500 team members from over 40 nationalities, serving tens of millions of users globally. Proton is one of Europe’s fastest growing tech companies focused on privacy and security.
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