People Operations & Payroll Lead, Proton
+ stock options
3+ days a week in office
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
Job no longer available
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ stock options
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in HR operations or people business partnering, including experience in people management (3+ direct reports), with a portfolio including payroll responsibilities (ideally in international, fast-paced tech environments)
- Good knowledge of payroll practices with a multi-country scope of responsibility
- Comfort with numbers and statistics, along with excellent analytical skills and an eye for detail
- Proven experience in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, lookups, IFS at a minimum)
- Conflict resolution and negotiation skills with the ability to manage employee relations issues
- A strong sense of confidentiality
- English as a must, with a second language (ideally French, Spanish or German) as a plus
- Willingness to learn, roll up your sleeves, raise your hand, help to deliver and strive for excellence
What the job involves
- Reporting to the People Experience Lead, you'll manage, mentor and develop a team of 3 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 designing our next generation HRIS, fully integrated with its ecosystems, to gain simplification and automation in our processes
- We're also streamlining and improving the collaboration with a recently implemented global payroll provider, fully integrated with HRIS and Finance systems to gain efficiently at scale, with automated contractual management through Luminance
- 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
- 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
Our take
Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.
Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.
Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.
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back within 2 weeks
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.
Company values
- People first - Whether serving the Proton community or the broader world, Proton puts people first. it will always put making a positive impact before profits. Proton is independent, neutral, employee-controlled, and does not have venture capital investors.
- Do what is right - Proton believes doing what is right is a competitive advantage. Proton's culture empowers it to do what is right and to do work that it can truly be proud of. It aims to be a tech company with a conscience.
- Science is our foundation - Proton was founded by scientists, and science is part of its DNA and culture. It believes in technical excellence, rigor, and peer review. Integrity, honesty, and transparency are core values.
- We believe in privacy - Proton believes that privacy is a fundamental right and an essential part of being human. Without it, there can be no freedom. Privacy is a deeply held belief that guides all that Proton does.
- Together it’s possible - Proton believes in collective strength. Its mission can only be accomplished by working together with its community. Together, Proton is building a better internet for future generations.
Company HQ
Plan-les-Ouates, GE
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Leadership
Andy Yen
(CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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