Founding Senior HR Generalist / People Operations Lead (ONSITE IN SF)

PulseRise Technologies • San Francisco, CA

22h • Onsite

About The Position

We are hiring our first dedicated HR leader to build and own the People function from the ground up. This is not a strategic CHRO role. This is a hands-on operational builder role. AI company building enterprise AI agents across voice, chat, and email for major B2C companies. Recently raised $61M and scaling rapidly. The company operates lean, with strong autonomy and clear commercial traction. The business is at an inflection point — scaling headcount and formalizing internal operations. Once fundamentals are in place, the role may expand into performance management, manager enablement, and broader People initiatives.

Requirements

• 4–7 years of HR experience
• Prior experience as first or early HR hire at a venture-backed startup
• California employment law fluency
• HRIS fluency (Rippling preferred)
• Payroll fundamentals and Finance partnership experience
• Experience handling terminations and severance with sound judgment
• Based in SF Bay Area, 5 days in-office

Nice To Haves

• Rippling expertise
• Experience supporting sales orgs (commission structures)
• Multi-state or international employment exposure
• Performance management process design
• Broader People Ops experience

Responsibilities

• Own the full employee lifecycle
• Bring structure to informal processes
• Maintain compliance in California employment environment
• Partner closely with Finance and external counsel
• Build scalable HR foundations
• End-to-end onboarding and offboarding
• Employment documentation and agreements
• Rippling (source of truth)
• Benefits administration and broker relationships
• Payroll partnership and compliance
• Terminations and severance handling
• California employment law application
• Building scalable HR workflows
• Supporting future performance and culture initiatives

Benefits

• Benefits administration

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed