People Operations Coordinator, Sanctuary AI
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Human-like intelligence robotics
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Human-like intelligence robotics
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ equity stakes
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots at a time that is right to make it happen.
Role
Who you are
- If you're someone with a few years of experience who’s ready to learn the building blocks of People Ops at a fast-moving company, we’d love to meet you
- 2+ years of experience in People Operations, HR coordination, or an administrative role with exposure to HR
- Familiarity with an HRIS (BambooHR experience is a plus, but not required)
- Exposure to benefits, onboarding, or policy support, even in a supporting capacity, is helpful
- Interest in growing your knowledge of People Ops foundations at a fast-paced, high-impact company
- Strong organizational skills-you keep track of details, timelines, and follow-ups with ease
- Clear, kind communication-especially when answering employee questions or handling sensitive matters
- Experience coordinating tasks across multiple teams (e.g., IT, Finance, Facilities)
- Comfortable navigating systems, maintaining documentation, and managing repeatable processes
- Ability to generate and interpret basic reports to support internal needs
- Service-oriented and approachable-you’re quick to help and always looking for ways to improve the employee experience
- Eager to learn and take on new challenges-you don’t need to know everything, but you’re not afraid to figure it out
- Process-minded-you enjoy building structure and bringing clarity to complex or evolving situations
- Discreet and professional-you know how to handle confidential information with care
- Collaborative and adaptable-you communicate well and thrive in a fast-moving environment
What the job involves
- As our People Operations Coordinator, you’ll join a small but mighty team focused on building an exceptional employee experience
- Reporting to and partnering closely with the Manager of People & Talent, you’ll play a key role in day-to-day People Operations-managing internal admin, supporting employees, and helping scale our processes as we grow
- This is a hands-on, learning-focused role that offers exposure to a wide range of People functions-from onboarding and HR systems to policy management and global mobility
- Administer our HRIS (BambooHR)-keeping employee records clean, accurate, and up to date
- Manage internal benefits administration tasks like enrollments and changes, with exposure to broader benefits strategy in partnership with the Manager, People & Talent
- Be a trusted go-to for employees with questions about time off, company policies, and general People processes, responding clearly and empathetically
- Coordinate and improve our onboarding program by working closely with IT, Facilities, and Finance to ensure a seamless and welcoming experience for new hires
- Keep internal documentation, policies, and employee handbooks organized and current, ensuring alignment with local labor laws
- Support internal workflows like leaves of absence, job changes, and offboarding
- Gain exposure to global mobility processes, including visa sponsorship and international travel logistics, in collaboration with the Manager, People & Talent and the broader Operations team
- Partner with Finance to support light payroll coordination, such as tracking employee changes and ensuring accurate time-off and leave data
- Assist with basic HR reporting, including headcount data, time-off summaries, and HRIS-driven metrics
- Proactively spot opportunities to improve systems, documentation, or employee-facing resources
Our take
Sanctuary has set itself the ambitious task of developing human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots, intending to complement the human labor market - and eventually helping humans settle in outer space. Its robots are modelled on the size and shape of humans, and their cognitive architecture is based on the subsystems of the human brain. The hope is that this puts the so-far elusive artificial general intelligence (AGI) in closer reach.
It’s a challenging mission, but the Sanctuary team have remarkable expertise and experience. Before Sanctuary, the founders launched deep tech robotics company Kindred with backing from the likes of Google and Bloomberg Beta. Whilst it was eventually bought out by Ocado, Sanctuary was designed to pick up where Kindred’s early research left off.
Some critics suggest that Sanctuary’s technology isn’t anything new - just yet. Nor has any company promising AGI (including Tesla) offered up material results. There’s also some question as to whether AGI, technologically glamorous though it may be, is better than highly specialised systems. If it can be done, however, there’s no doubt it’ll prove a remarkable deep-tech breakthrough.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
81% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2022
$30m
GRANT
Mar 2022
$58.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $88.5m
Company HQ
Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Geordie Rose
(CEO)A Doctor of Theoretical Physics, who subsequently founded and served as CTO of quantum computing systems and software company D-Wave Systems, before moving on to co-found Kindred.ai.
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