People Operations Lead, Payabli
$85-90k
+ Stock options
Payment infrastructure and monetization platform
Be an early applicant
Payment infrastructure and monetization platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$85-90k
+ Stock options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide a proven playbook that allows high-growth SaaS companies to leverage payments as a core part of their business model.
Role
Who you are
- 4-6 years of People Ops / HR experience, ideally in a fast-growing startup environment
- Proven ability to be both strategic and tactical—comfortable drafting policy one minute and running payroll audits the next
- Strong understanding of compliance requirements across multiple states
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with employees at all levels
- Familiarity with Rippling (or similar HRIS/PEO), HR systems, and payroll/benefits tools
- Bias toward action: you see a problem, you fix it
What the job involves
- The People Ops Lead is a hands-on HR generalist role with a wide scope—part builder, part operator, and part partner to leaders across the business
- You’ll own the day-to-day of People Operations, while also helping to shape the programs and infrastructure that allow Payabli to scale
- Think of it as the “glue” role—connecting onboarding, compliance, engagement, and performance into a seamless employee experience
- Own HR systems and workflows (Rippling as our HRIS/PEO, payroll, benefits, time off, compliance tracking)
- Ensure accurate employee data management, reporting, and documentation
- Partner with Finance on payroll and benefits reconciliations
- Drive a consistent, high-quality onboarding experience, from offer letters to orientation and beyond
- Coordinate offboarding, ensuring compliance, documentation, and a respectful employee exit experience
- Be a trusted first point of contact for employee questions and concerns
- Support managers with employee relations cases and performance conversations
- Help run engagement surveys, feedback loops, and cultural initiatives
- Maintain compliance across federal and state requirements (including carve-outs for states like CA, CO, and NY)
- Draft, update, and communicate policies in partnership with leadership
- Track and document processes for SOC2 and other audit requests
- Support ongoing performance cycles, goal setting, and calibration
- Coach and advise leaders on managing teams, giving feedback, and navigating employee challenges
- Partner with managers to embed strong people practices into daily operations
- Assist in building lightweight training and development resources
Our take
Though often overlooked as a necessity and functional aspect of doing business, Payabli is a software company that actually elevates what payments are capable of bringing to a company. Payabli’s platform aims to make payments not just a function that employees don’t think twice about, but something that can enhance their customers' experiences.
With an increasing number of companies migrating from legacy payment software to vertical SaaS (operationally specific) providers, Payabli is carving out a niche in the competitive space through simultaneous payout automation, stack optimisation, and customer payment services all on one platform.
Payabli’s focus on high-growth SaaS companies as its customers could be a slight gamble, given the turbulence in the sector, possibly leading to problems with customer retention. Payabli has not had any trouble so far, though, having tripled its growth in 2022 and benefitting from two rounds of funding within one year. It received further funding in 2025 and plans to use it to develop its products, particularly AI-driven personalisation experiences for customers.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2025
$28m
SERIES B
Jun 2024
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $60m
Company benefits
- Stock options with the potential to unlock more equity as we grow
- Flexible PTO and paid parental leave
- Medical, dental, & vision insurance401K, HSA, pre-tax savings programs
- Option to be fully remote or hybrid
- Monthly education fund to spend on anything that enhances your skills or gets you one step closer to your passion goals
Company HQ
Coral Way, Miami, FL
Leadership
Joseph Elias Phillips
(Co-Founder)Currently Member Board Of Directors at Bold Communities. Previously Managing Director at Centavo, Head of Sales at ServiceTitan, Sales Manager at GrubHub Seamless.
William Corbera
(Product Architect)Previously Co-Founder and Head of Product at RevoPay.
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