Talent and People Operations Specialist

Full-time • Remote

Description

At Doist, our mission is to empower people with simple yet powerful productivity tools. We're a global, fully-remote team passionate about creating products like Todoist that improve people’s lives. We innovate new solutions to old productivity challenges and rethink how productivity tools are made.

Our Core Values

• Ambition: Aspire to put a dent in the universe; set high standards; solve high-impact issues for customers and company.
• Mastery: Care deeply about work quality; continuously learn and push limits; balance intense work with complete disconnection.
• Independence: Deliver on time; keep your word; be proactive, take ownership, and remain accountable with little or no direction.
• Communication: Communicate clearly, concisely, and engagingly; keep others informed; speak respectfully; foster warm relationships; be culturally and socially aware.

Visit our public handbook and press room to learn more about what we ship, how we work, and public people programs.

More about this role:

This role shapes the Doister lifecycle from candidate engagement to workflow, system improvements, and day-to-day collaboration globally. It blends talent acquisition and people operations focusing on optimizing processes, implementing simple yet powerful solutions, and creating a best-in-class Doister experience. Hiring level targeted is IC3 or IC4. Exposure beyond talent and people operations is expected through monthly squads working on company quarterly goals.

In this role, you’ll:

• Drive full talent acquisition cycle for assigned roles: sourcing, screening, scheduling interviews, managing offer letters. Elevate sourcing strategies using various platforms/networks.
• Proactively source candidates for business-critical or hard-to-fill roles.
• Develop/execute sourcing strategies to attract diverse qualified candidates.
• Partner with hiring managers to align job descriptions and candidate shortlists.
• Contribute to employer branding initiatives (LinkedIn page, webinars, podcasts, events).
• Use feedback from candidates/hiring managers/teams to improve talent acquisition processes continuously.
• Onboard new hires ensuring smooth welcoming experience: create onboarding projects, prepare systems for success from offer signing onward.
• Own employee experience interface as primary contact for global team members; partner with People leadership to automate/manual support transition into scalable self-service solutions.
• Create/maintain documentation (core part of every role at Doist).
• Maintain accurate employee records ensuring data integrity across People Systems.
• Contribute to talent and people programs supporting company culture, growth, values.

If excited by leading/shaping Doist’s people future, apply! See candidate FAQs for more info.

Requirements

To excel in this role you are:

• Passionate about People/Human-centricity at work: empathize across cultures; committed to world-class hiring/candidate experience; build operational practices enabling amazing experiences for current/future Doisters.
• Experienced in Startup/Scale-Up environments: broad perspective/adaptability; extensive knowledge in talent acquisition, people operations, onboarding, first-line global support.
• Resourceful: adapt practices aligned with company stages/business needs; focus on opportunities over problems.
• Communicative: clear, concise, engaging communication; thrive in asynchronous environment requiring independent work/thinking plus global collaboration.
• Comfortable with Ambiguity: plan ahead but pragmatic; quickly adapt without fluster when new info arises.
• Excited by Doist’s Mission: inspired by vision empowering people with simple yet powerful tools.

Our Process

Submit completed application by June 1st at 6pm UTC including resume/LinkedIn profile and thoughtful answers to application questions. Applications reviewed for motivation/skills/experience including AI checks against fraudulent/deep-fake applications. Next steps include salary transparency & interview scheduling with salary range shared early for evaluation before interview scheduling. Interview & assessment steps: 1. Screening Call & Role-alignment interview with Nadia Vatalidis (Head of People). 2. Panel Interview with People peer/hiring partner Andrew Gobran (People Business Partner) plus one Doist leader assessing enablement/support alongside non-People team member.

1. Paid Assessment Project evaluated by diverse panel inside/outside People Team to reduce bias (mandatory step).
2. Final interview evaluating Culture-contribution with Amir Salihefendić (CEO).

Offer extended to successful candidate.

Benefits

Perks designed for personal/professional growth: The basics

• Work from anywhere worldwide (no location restrictions). Location added only for advertising purposes here.
• Design your own schedule working 8-hour days max 40 hours/week.
• Competitive pay based on industry benchmarks & location without negotiation stress; compensation details provided before first interview.

Expand your professional skills

• Recurring budget for conferences, courses, books.
• Team/company-wide retreats fostering inspiring in-person connections.

Craft your ideal work environment

• Stipend towards coworking spaces.
• Monthly budget for apps/services aiding your job (internet, apps, music subscriptions).
• Recurring budget for work-related hardware/equipment.

Focus on your well-being

• 8 weeks (40 days) vacation per year including national holidays.
• New parents get 5 weeks paid parental leave plus 13 weeks paid pregnancy-related medical leave.
• Monthly budget for health/wellness expenses (gym membership, healthy snacks, massages, insurance).

Additional Information

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