People Operations Specialist, Seqera Labs
The intelligent engine for life sciences
Open for applications
The intelligent engine for life sciences
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify complex data analysis pipelines in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- 4–6 years of hands-on experience in People Operations, HR, or a generalist role with significant operational scope
- Experience working in a scaling, international, or operationally complex environment, required. You know what it’s like to build without a full playbook
- Experience managing multi-country payroll and employee administration across
- Working knowledge of Spanish labor law administration — required. Exposure to US employment law (federal and state level) is a strong plus; UK or Canadian experience is also valued
- Experience with HiBob or a comparable HRIS as an administrator (not just end user)
- Familiarity with global employment platforms, benefits vendors, and HR tooling is strongly preferred
- Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Law, or a related field — preferred, not required if your practical experience speaks for itself
- Fluent Spanish and English (professional or native level for both)
- How you work;
- Resourceful. When the tool doesn’t do what you need, you find a way. When the process breaks, you fix it. You’re not blocked by imperfect systems or missing playbooks
- Bias for action. You’d rather ship an 80% solution today than wait for a perfect one next month — without compromising on compliance or confidentiality
- Detail-oriented. You catch the small things others miss
- Tech-savvy and quick to learn new systems. Comfortable across Slack, JIRA, spreadsheets, and HR tools. You pick up new systems fast
- Discreet. You handle sensitive and confidential information with professionalism and maturity, always
What the job involves
- We need someone who sees a broken process and proactively identifies and improves operational gaps — who builds a workaround when the tool fails and treats compliance complexity as a puzzle to solve. Someone genuinely excited by the idea of owning the people operations foundation at a company where processes are still being built
- You’ll play a key role in supporting employee lifecycle operations, compliance, HR systems, and day-to-day People processes across a distributed global team. You’ll work closely with People, Finance, IT, and external partners to help ensure our operations remain accurate, compliant, and employee-centered as we scale
- This is a hands-on role with meaningful ownership and opportunities to improve systems, documentation, and workflows over time
- Be the first point of contact for employees on People queries — policies, tools, and day-to-day support — running the JIRA Service Desk as the primary intake channel
- Run onboarding and offboarding end-to-end for every hire across all our locations, and employment models
- Manage employee lifecycle administration in HiBob and related systems, including leave management, compensation updates, benefits changes, and employee records
- Prepare documentation and HRIS updates for performance and compensation review cycles
- Partner with payroll, benefits, and external employment providers to ensure timely and accurate operations
- Maintain HR documentation, policies, contracts, and records in an organized and audit-ready manner
- Support visa and mobility processes in coordination with external immigration partners
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows, documentation, automation, and operational scalability
- Run the payroll cycles in coordination with external providers and Finance — ensuring accuracy, on-time delivery, and clean records across all countries
- Administer day-to-day operations with our global employment and benefits partners — managing employee lifecycle changes on platforms and keeping data accurate
- Manage US state-level employment compliance: workers’ compensation registrations, state tax nexus, mandatory paid leave, and local ordinances across all states where Seqera has employees
- Maintain Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) compliance across all jurisdictions — specially Spain and the USA
- Ensure employee data is processed in compliance with GDPR and applicable data protection laws — maintaining records, handling subject access requests, and flagging data risks promptly
Our take
Commercial DNA sequencing and advances in biometrics have led to an explosion in biological data, which is likely to prove critical in tackling the major problems facing the life sciences. The problem is, the data is so vast in quantity and diverse in type that analysing it and managing it can prove prohibitively expensive. This is where data orchestration and workflow platform Seqera Labs comes into its own.
Seqera is focused predominantly on facilitating big data analysis and management in the life sciences, and it has gotten impressive traction. Its Nextflow product, a distributed data analysis solution, has been used by over 10,000 organizations. This has included teams working on COVID sequencing, and on cancers.
What's so valuable about its offering is that it can be used by people who understand the data without the need for external teams, which has led to it becoming an industry standard. Seqera has been funded generously, and acquired AI bioinformatics company TinyBio, empowering it to play a pivotal role in key life-sciences developments going forward.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2022
$25.2m
SERIES A
Sep 2021
$5.5m
SEED
Total funding: $30.8m
Company benefits
- Continuous Learning: We believe in empowering our people to expand their knowledge and be their best selves. That’s why you have a budget dedicated to being a life-long learner.
- Make yourself at home: Whether in our office in Barcelona or from home, we want you to make yourself comfortable to reach your full potential.
- Healthcare: We take care of your health and offer comprehensive packages for all our employees, no matter where they are located.
- Take ownership: Use your initiative to work on new ideas and pursue them. Receive support and encouragement in doing so with maximum freedom.
- Team events: We gather have weekly team lunches, bi-weekly social events, annual department offsites and annual company-wide retreats.
- Employee ownership: We value employee ownership and actively support everyone to participate in our overall long-term success.
Company HQ
El Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
Leadership
Paolo Di Tommaso
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)Paolo is a Computer Scientist with broad experience as a Software Engineer and Software Architect in life science and healthcare applications.
Evan Floden
(Co-Founder & CEO)Evan is a Biomedicine PhD graduate, with broad experience across Biomedicine and Computing, including work as the Senior Bioinformatician at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation.
Dan Pasette
(CTO)Prior to joining Seqera in 2025, Dan was the CTo at Regrow. He also served as a Technical Advisor at Neurelo and as a Senior Technical Advisor at Kiip.
Colin MacLaughlin
(CFO)Colin is the founder and Fractional CFO at Vulpine Advisory. Previously, he served as the CFO at Thriva and spent over 7 years at Crowdcube in various roles, including VP of FInance & Operations and as CFO.
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