HR Generalist, StarTree
Giving decision-makers data insights
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Giving decision-makers data insights
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make data more accessible and actionable.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will bring energy, reliability, and service-orientation to both people operations and executive support functions
- 2+ years in an HR Generalist, Office Admin, or HR Coordinator role with US employment law knowledge; Bay Area/California HR experience strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience with benefits administration and payroll input
- HRIS experience (Rippling or similar) a plus.
- Familiarity with I-9, E-Verify, wage and hour compliance is a must
- Excellent organization, communication, and multitasking skills; proactive, reliable, and comfortable with shifting priorities
- Willing and able to work onsite in our Mountain View/Bay Area office daily
- Contract Period: 6 months, extendable or conversion to full time based on business need
- Contract Time: 20 Hours Week
- Start Date: Immediate
What the job involves
- The HR Generalist will manage day-to-day human resources operations in our Bay Area office, supporting a range of HR, recruiting, office administration, and CEO support activities
- This contract-to-hire role requires a self-starter experienced in US HR laws, benefits administration, and state/local California compliance
- Administer employee onboarding and offboarding in line with US and California labor law (I-9, E-Verify, W-4, new hire reporting, employment contracts).
- Maintain HRIS data integrity (e.g., Rippling), process employee changes, and support payroll input.
- Coordinate benefits enrollment, manage open enrollment, process qualifying life event changes, and ensure ACA, COBRA, and ERISA compliance for benefits.
- Conduct routine HR compliance audits and maintain up-to-date knowledge of wage/hour, leave, immigration and anti-discrimination laws
- Manage employee records and digital files on Rippling per legal requirements
- Post jobs, source candidates, coordinate interviews, and assist managers in compliant hiring practices
- Schedule and support orientation and new hire training
- Track recruiting metrics and ensure a positive candidate experience
- Oversee daily office operations: supplies, visitor management, facility coordination, and vendor relations
- Plan and execute office events along with the office manager for both internal and external events, celebrations, meetings, and in-person gatherings
- Manage interaction with building management, service providers, and deliveries
- Organize all HR and Finance files
- Assist with confidential projects, executive events, and additional administrative tasks as needed
- Partner with the HR Head in developing and rolling out employee engagement initiatives and events
- Answer employee queries on policies, benefits, and HR procedures, escalating complex topics as required
- Help maintain a culture of inclusion, respect, and operational excellence within the team
Our take
StarTree is a startup founded by the creators of Apache Pinot, which delivers scaled analytics at low latency for up to millions of users - and has proven successful with market giants like Weibo, Walmart, and LinkedIn. StarTree is the platform-as-service version of Apache Pinot for enterprise, which is used by Cisco, Etsy and Target.
The company's pedigree is strong, with founders previously holding engineering positions at Uber and LinkedIn. They saw firsthand the benefits of providing real-time insights to users of Linkedin and UberEats, knowing it would sit well with the wider population.
Certainly, with more companies grappling with larger data pools at speed, the demand for low-latency analytics engines appears to only be growing. StarTree hopes to position Apache Pinot as the go-to engine for this and is focusing on marketing and sales to fend off rivals such as ClickHouse. It is expanding internationally as well to drive uptake, opening an office in India to grow into Asian markets..
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Insights
53% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2022
$47m
SERIES B
May 2021
$24m
SERIES A
Total funding: $75m
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Xiang Fu
(Co-Founder)After compleating a Masters in Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer for LinkedIn and Staff Software Engineer for Uber. They were the Founding Engineer for Stealth Mode Startup and a Pinot PMC and Committer for The Apache Software Foundation.
Kishore Gopalakrishna
(Co-Founder & CEO)After graduating from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, they became an Application Developer for Oracle. Before becoming the Founding Engineer for the Stealth Mode Startup Company, they were a Senior Technical at Yahoo and Senior Staff Engineer at LinkedIn.
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