People Ops & Payroll Specialist, Applause
$50-65k
Office located in Framingham, MA
Testing and digital quality platform
Be an early applicant
Testing and digital quality platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$50-65k
Office located in Framingham, MA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the first place to turn for brands to ensure their digital interactions with customers are of the highest quality and work as intended.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for an enthusiastic, smart, and motivated People Operations & Payroll Specialist to join our dynamic People team
- This is an exciting opportunity for someone early in their HR career who is eager to learn, grow, and make an impact. You’ll work across the People Operations function with a particular focus on HRIS/ADP, payroll support, and administrative operations
- This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is highly organized, a self-starter, and loves problem-solving. You’ll have exposure to multiple areas of the People function, making this an ideal role to build a strong HR foundation
- You have a strong sense of ownership and pride in your work - once you start something, you see it through to completion and follow up when necessary
- You are highly organized, detail-oriented, and thrive on making systems and processes run smoothly
- You are a self-starter who enjoys taking initiative and solving problems proactively
- You’re energized by juggling multiple priorities and can maintain accuracy even during high-volume or time-sensitive periods
- You can flex between structured tasks and ambiguous situations with ease
- You’re comfortable handling sensitive and confidential information with discretion
- You are excited to be part of a collaborative, fast-paced, and people-first culture
- 1–3 years of experience in People Operations, HR, or payroll (internships and early career experience welcome)
- Familiarity with HRIS systems (ADP experience strongly preferred)
- Basic understanding of payroll processes and compliance
- Analytic mindset with strong problem-solving skills
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Advanced proficiency in Google Workspace and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and Google Slides, with the ability to create professional-level reports, spreadsheets, and presentations
What the job involves
- Support the administration and maintenance of our HRIS (ADP) including employee records, job data, and reporting
- Ensure data accuracy and consistency across systems
- Assist in optimizing workflows and processes within the HRIS platform
- Assist with system implementations, upgrades and integrations
- Prepare monthly and quarterly reports
- Partner with the Payroll team to help ensure timely and accurate payroll processing for U.S. and international employees
- Assist with payroll audits, data entry, and reconciliations
- Support compliance with federal, state, and local payroll regulations
- Own and execute a variety of day-to-day administrative tasks across the People team
- Support onboarding and offboarding processes to ensure a seamless employee experience
- Assist with compliance tracking, employee verifications, and reporting
- Collaborate with internal teams such as Finance, IT, and Legal to support employee-related processes
- Jump in where needed to support broader People initiatives and projects
Our take
Applause is an app quality testing platform giving development companies the ability to have their products thoroughly tested in real-world situations by a global network of testers. It also offers further development features such as the ability to gather user feedback, advanced analytics from app stores and bug reporting.
As a bug-free product launch has increasingly become the expectation among organisations and users, global demand for testing services has steadily risen. Applause competes for a piece of this market against companies such as Smartbear. However, its "in the wild" testing service is structured to scale rapidly compared to competitors, and it now has an unmatched 300,000 testers available on-demand around the globe.
Applause counts thousands of companies as its customers, including Google, Nike and Slack, to name just a few. It will move to consolidate its market lead by seeking to reach new customers, develop its platform, and build additional partnerships with companies that can help it test at larger and larger scales.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2016
$35m
SERIES F
Jan 2014
$43m
SERIES E
Total funding: $115.8m
Company benefits
- Dental and vision insurance
- 401(K) match
- Generous bonus scheme
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Framingham, MA
Leadership
Doron Reuveni
(Executive Chairman)Prior to Applause, they were the CEO and Owner of Re.D Consulting, where they assisted early stage startups in raising capital, and provided counsel to VC's for portfolio companies' market direction, technology and management evaluation. Prior to Re.D, Doron was SVP of Technology at Enigma, where they led multi-million dollar software implementations for companies such as Ford, Volvo, and United Airlines.
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