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Description
General Role Description
Develop and lead an employee services function delivering consistent, compliant, and scalable services, while enabling HR Business Partnership and Centers of Excellence (COEs) to focus on strategic work to achieve the Company’s business goals and objectives.
Role Accountabilities
- Design, implement, and evolve TMEIC’s 1HR model, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and hand offs between Shared Services, HR Business Partners, and COEs, in partnership with HR leadership
- Serve as a strategic partner to HRD, HRBPs and COE leaders, translating business and functional needs into scalable employee service solutions
- Drive change management efforts associated with new HR processes, systems, and service delivery approaches across TMCA
- Contribute to long term HR strategy by identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency, compliance, and employee experience
- Implement and manage a tiered HR support model
- Define, and provide insights around employee services satisfaction metrics such as responsiveness, and first contact resolution
- Develop and maintain HR knowledge articles, FAQs, and process guides
- Partner with HR Systems to expand employee and manager self service
- Reduce dependency on manual support through documentation and automation
- Manage operational performance of HR vendors, as assigned
- Facilitate negotiations and execute contracts with external vendors, in collaboration with internal and external legal resources, as applicable
- Own the administration and continuous optimization of HRIS platforms, ensuring data accuracy, system integrity, real-time activity tracking, and delivery of actionable management reports
- Develop, analyze, and maintain regular and accurate recruitment data extracts and reports, and provide executive summary to support decision making, using available business tools
- Facilitate training regarding HR practices, compliance, and employment law as applicable
- Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements throughout the recruitment process
- Consult with and advise managers, and others, as applicable on HR business process
- Provide consultative, administrative, and technical guidance in the development and implementation of HR programs, as applicable
- Identify, develop, recommend, implement and update methods and materials to improve HR programs and communication
- Monitor and report on human resource trends, best practices, and legislative issues and changes to management
General Employee Accountabilities
- Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager
- Give manager best advice
- Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified
- Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager
- Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment
- Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws
- Recommend viable improvements proactively
- Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes
Manager Accountabilities
- Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees
- Plan for, appropriately assign, resource, and integrate the work of the team
- Lead, expect, and implement continuous improvement
- Own the output of the team
- Ensure team members fulfill functional and general employee accountabilities
- Exercise effective managerial leadership to include
- Two-way managerial team working
- Fair and just treatment of direct reports
- Context setting
- Planning
- Task assignment
- Ongoing performance management
- Coaching
- Selection and orientation
- De-selection and dismissal
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, business, or related field, or equivalent via education and/or work experience
- 10 years’ human resources experience in HR operations, shared services, or employee services corporate environments
- 2 years’ of people leadership experience
- Demonstrated experience with employee lifecycle processes
- Demonstrated knowledge of applicable legislation and regulatory guidelines, and their impact on HR and other business processes
- Demonstrated knowledge and application of HR operational policies, procedures, and practices
- Demonstrated passion for excellence and taking initiative
- Demonstrated skills in independent decision-making, influencing, negotiating, and analytical and creative problem-solving; sound business judgment; and the drive to achieve results
- Demonstrated success developing, implementing, measuring, and improving effective programs in an HR functional area
- Demonstrated success leading teams to achieve business goals and objectives
- Working knowledge of an ATS
- Working knowledge of recruiting platforms, technologies, and networking tools
- Demonstrated effective relationship management skills with demonstrated experience establishing credibility and partnering with leaders to identify talent gaps, needs, risk, and plans for actions
- Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
- Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
- Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
- Proficiency in MS Office
- Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, less than 10%
Preferred Qualifications
- 4 years’ experience with shared services or employee services in global HR operations
- Demonstrated experience supporting diverse employee base spanning multiple geographic locations, domestically and internationally, in best-in-class environment
- Demonstrated success in human resource functional accountability for global, high growth, engineering services organization or industry served by the Company
- Experience in a business with foreign ownership, preferably Japanese
- Experience with Requisite Organization principles
- SPHR, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SHRM-CP, or GPHR
To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting. A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application. Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.
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Description
General Role Description
Develop and lead an employee services function delivering consistent, compliant, and scalable services, while enabling HR Business Partnership and Centers of Excellence (COEs) to focus on strategic work to achieve the Company’s business goals and objectives.
Role Accountabilities
- Design, implement, and evolve TMEIC’s 1HR model, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and hand offs between Shared Services, HR Business Partners, and COEs, in partnership with HR leadership
- Serve as a strategic partner to HRD, HRBPs and COE leaders, translating business and functional needs into scalable employee service solutions
- Drive change management efforts associated with new HR processes, systems, and service delivery approaches across TMCA
- Contribute to long term HR strategy by identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency, compliance, and employee experience
- Implement and manage a tiered HR support model
- Define, and provide insights around employee services satisfaction metrics such as responsiveness, and first contact resolution
- Develop and maintain HR knowledge articles, FAQs, and process guides
- Partner with HR Systems to expand employee and manager self service
- Reduce dependency on manual support through documentation and automation
- Manage operational performance of HR vendors, as assigned
- Facilitate negotiations and execute contracts with external vendors, in collaboration with internal and external legal resources, as applicable
- Own the administration and continuous optimization of HRIS platforms, ensuring data accuracy, system integrity, real-time activity tracking, and delivery of actionable management reports
- Develop, analyze, and maintain regular and accurate recruitment data extracts and reports, and provide executive summary to support decision making, using available business tools
- Facilitate training regarding HR practices, compliance, and employment law as applicable
- Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements throughout the recruitment process
- Consult with and advise managers, and others, as applicable on HR business process
- Provide consultative, administrative, and technical guidance in the development and implementation of HR programs, as applicable
- Identify, develop, recommend, implement and update methods and materials to improve HR programs and communication
- Monitor and report on human resource trends, best practices, and legislative issues and changes to management
General Employee Accountabilities
- Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager
- Give manager best advice
- Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified
- Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager
- Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment
- Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws
- Recommend viable improvements proactively
- Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes
Manager Accountabilities
- Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees
- Plan for, appropriately assign, resource, and integrate the work of the team
- Lead, expect, and implement continuous improvement
- Own the output of the team
- Ensure team members fulfill functional and general employee accountabilities
- Exercise effective managerial leadership to include
- Two-way managerial team working
- Fair and just treatment of direct reports
- Context setting
- Planning
- Task assignment
- Ongoing performance management
- Coaching
- Selection and orientation
- De-selection and dismissal
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, business, or related field, or equivalent via education and/or work experience
- 10 years’ human resources experience in HR operations, shared services, or employee services corporate environments
- 2 years’ of people leadership experience
- Demonstrated experience with employee lifecycle processes
- Demonstrated knowledge of applicable legislation and regulatory guidelines, and their impact on HR and other business processes
- Demonstrated knowledge and application of HR operational policies, procedures, and practices
- Demonstrated passion for excellence and taking initiative
- Demonstrated skills in independent decision-making, influencing, negotiating, and analytical and creative problem-solving; sound business judgment; and the drive to achieve results
- Demonstrated success developing, implementing, measuring, and improving effective programs in an HR functional area
- Demonstrated success leading teams to achieve business goals and objectives
- Working knowledge of an ATS
- Working knowledge of recruiting platforms, technologies, and networking tools
- Demonstrated effective relationship management skills with demonstrated experience establishing credibility and partnering with leaders to identify talent gaps, needs, risk, and plans for actions
- Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
- Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
- Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
- Proficiency in MS Office
- Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, less than 10%
Preferred Qualifications
- 4 years’ experience with shared services or employee services in global HR operations
- Demonstrated experience supporting diverse employee base spanning multiple geographic locations, domestically and internationally, in best-in-class environment
- Demonstrated success in human resource functional accountability for global, high growth, engineering services organization or industry served by the Company
- Experience in a business with foreign ownership, preferably Japanese
- Experience with Requisite Organization principles
- SPHR, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SHRM-CP, or GPHR
To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting. A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application. Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.
EEO/AA/M/F/Vet/Disability Employer
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A snapshot from current openings nationwide, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Amazon833
- McDonald's561
- Petco311
- Wendy's255
- GameStop184
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services1,610
- Technology & Software982
- Consulting & Professional Services894
- Education703
- Food & Beverage665
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in people operations manager jobs.
- 3 to 5 years of HR generalist or people operations experience
- Hands-on experience with an HRIS platform such as Workday, BambooHR, or Rippling
- Knowledge of employment law, compliance requirements, and HR best practices
- Experience designing or managing onboarding, performance, and engagement programs
- Strong data and reporting skills for headcount planning and workforce analytics
- PHR, SPHR, or SHRM-CP certification preferred or required
Tips for Your People Operations Manager Job Search
Quantify your HR program impact
Hiring managers want numbers, not responsibilities. Replace phrases like 'managed onboarding' with specifics: how many employees you onboarded per cycle, how you reduced time-to-productivity, or how you improved retention rates through programs you built.
Tailor your resume to HRIS platforms
Job listings for people operations managers almost always name a specific HRIS like Workday, BambooHR, Rippling, or Gusto. Mirror the exact platform name from each posting in your resume's skills section so it clears applicant tracking system filters.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists people operations manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies at an inflection point
People operations roles open most urgently when a company hits a growth milestone, completes a merger, or builds out its HR function for the first time. Filter for companies that recently raised funding or announced expansion to find postings where your impact will be most visible.
Prepare a people operations case study
Interviewers often ask you to walk through how you'd redesign an onboarding program or handle a culture challenge. Arrive with a real example from your background that covers the problem, your approach, and the measurable outcome. Generic answers don't land.
Negotiate total compensation not just base pay
People operations managers are often evaluated partly on their own benefits literacy. When you receive an offer, ask detailed questions about equity vesting schedules, PTO policies, and professional development budgets. It signals fluency in the domain and opens a broader negotiation.
People Operations Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most people operations managers?
The companies hiring the most people operations managers right now include Amazon, McDonald's, and Petco, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Florida, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Technology companies and high-growth startups consistently account for a large portion of active postings.
How many people operations manager jobs are remote?
About 11% of people operations manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of June 2026, which is higher than average for manager-level roles. Sub-areas like HR systems administration, employee experience program design, and people analytics tend to be the most remote-friendly, while roles requiring regular in-person engagement for culture or onboarding programs skew toward hybrid.
How do you become a people operations manager?
Most people operations managers start in an HR coordinator, generalist, or recruiter role and build experience across core functions like onboarding, benefits administration, and performance management. From there, taking ownership of a specific program, earning an HR certification such as SHRM-CP or PHR, and developing proficiency in an HRIS platform positions you for a manager-level role. Employers look for candidates who can operate both strategically and administratively.
Can you get a people operations manager job with little experience?
Breaking into a people operations manager role with limited experience is possible if you can demonstrate ownership of at least one HR program in a prior role, even in a coordinator or specialist capacity. Highlight any process you built or improved, show familiarity with an HRIS tool, and frame volunteer or project-based HR work as evidence of scope. Some smaller companies hire people operations managers as their first dedicated HR hire, where broad generalist exposure matters more than years.
What does the people operations manager interview process look like?
The interview process for people operations manager roles typically runs three to four stages. An initial recruiter screen covers your background and compensation expectations. A hiring manager interview focuses on your HR program experience and how you've handled specific employee relations or compliance situations. A panel or loop round often includes cross-functional stakeholders like finance or department heads. Some employers add a case study or take-home exercise asking you to design an onboarding program or respond to a culture challenge.
Where can I find and apply to people operations manager jobs?
You can find and apply to people operations manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your experience and location preferences, then apply directly to each listing. New openings are added regularly, so checking back frequently gives you the best chance of catching roles early in the posting window.
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