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People Operations Specialist jobs are open across tech, healthcare, financial services, and professional services, from entry-level coordinator roles to senior and manager-level positions, with specializations in HRIS administration, employee experience, and HR compliance. Find a role that fits from the openings below and apply directly.
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About Us
Mintive helps companies put agents to work safely. We exist to help companies do more of their work with agents, and we build the infrastructure that makes a company's own work runnable by them. That has to start from trust. Our first product is an MCP gateway that gives those agents governed access to company data and tools.
Before agents can touch Slack, GitHub, Jira, Snowflake, internal databases, or production systems, you need to know what they can reach, what they did, and why they were allowed to do it. Most people carry far more permissions than any single task needs. If an agent uses your token directly, it inherits all of them. Our gateway product scopes that access down to exactly what an agent needs to do its job and captures the data flows and audit logs security teams need. From there we are building the rest of the agent stack: connectors, monitoring, sandboxing, long-running agents, and memory, with the goal of becoming the system a company's work runs on.
We work in person in the San Francisco Bay Area. The structure is flat and the market moves fast, so you have a lot of latitude over what you work on and how.
We are AI-native. Everyone uses Claude and Codex every day, and we have more agents than employees. They run in Slack alongside the team and handle sales, marketing, deal ops, and engineering on the same gateway we sell to customers, and we are building an entire company operating system around them.
Since launching in February 2026, we have grown to 50+ paying customers, with strong inbound demand. Customers include Coursera, Arlo, and Braze. We are backed by Cowboy Ventures and Coatue, with angels including Frederic Kerrest (Okta), Michael Grinich (WorkOS), Andrej Karpathy, Jeff Dean, and Scott Belsky. Our founders are machine learning experts from Stanford, Berkeley, and CMU, with applied research at Google Brain and Waymo, and one co-founded Coursera.
The Job
You own how candidates and new hires experience Mintive. From day one you do both the recruiting coordination (scheduling interviews fast, keeping candidates moving, making the process clean end to end) and the people ops around it (onboarding that makes new hires day-one ready, the HR operations that keep the team running, and the documented processes that replace tribal memory). You may not have done all of it before, and that is fine: we will teach you the parts you are missing. Process is the job here, so you should like building it.
We are an AI-native company. With our help, you'll build agentic workflows in our own product to streamline your work, so you're able to make better judgment calls. The role is hybrid in the Bay Area.
About You
Likely 1+ yrs as an admin/recruiting coordinator/people coordinator ready to take on larger challenges.
You have owned a process, not just worked tickets and schedules. You can point to something you built or fixed.
You love optimizing and automating. This is the builder seat, so that matters most here.
You have high attention to detail. You genuinely care about candidate experience, and you are organized enough that nothing slips.
You are a fast learner who is AI-native, or will get there fast.
You have a strong desire to grow your skills
Nice to have:
You have built or directed AI agents or agentic workflows, not just used AI tools.
You have touched HR ops, onboarding, or compliance.
You have used an ATS like Ashby or Greenhouse.
You have built or improved a recruiting or onboarding workflow.
What we offer:
Competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
The chance to build recruiting and people ops at an AI-native company from the ground up, with room to grow.
Direct access to the founders and to how the company hires and runs.
Health benefits, on a team that puts family and health first.
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- Target63
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in people operations specialist jobs.
- Experience with HRIS platforms such as Workday, BambooHR, or ADP
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field
- Knowledge of HR compliance, employment law, and workplace policy
- Proficiency in managing benefits administration and open enrollment cycles
- Strong written communication skills for policy documentation and employee communications
- PHR or SHRM-CP certification preferred for mid-level and senior positions
Tips for Your People Operations Specialist Job Search
Tailor your resume to HRIS tools
People ops roles almost always screen for specific platforms like Workday, BambooHR, or Rippling. Name the systems you've actually used in your bullets, not just in a skills list, and note the context, such as running open enrollment or building workflows.
Highlight cross-functional projects you owned
Hiring managers want evidence you've coordinated across departments, not just supported HR. Call out projects where you partnered with finance, legal, or engineering, and name the outcome, whether that's a policy rollout, a benefits overhaul, or a headcount audit.
Filter openings by company growth stage
The day-to-day work differs sharply between a 50-person startup and a 5,000-person enterprise. Startups typically want generalists who can build programs from scratch, while larger companies hire for process management within existing infrastructure. Match your experience to the stage.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists people operations specialist openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a process improvement example
Interviewers consistently ask people ops candidates to walk through a time they improved an HR process. Before your interview, prepare one concrete example with a clear before-and-after, covering what you changed, how you got buy-in, and what the result was.
Negotiate scope, not just compensation
People ops roles vary widely in ownership, from purely administrative to full program ownership. During offer conversations, clarify which HR functions you'll own outright versus support, because that scope difference compounds quickly into career trajectory and learning opportunities.
People Operations Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most people operations specialists?
The companies hiring the most people operations specialists right now include Target, Walmart, and Amazon, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is strongest at high-growth tech companies and healthcare systems that are scaling headcount rapidly.
How many people operations specialist jobs are remote?
About 47% of people operations specialist openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, making this one of the more flexible HR roles to find off-site. Employee experience, HRIS administration, and onboarding coordination tend to have the highest share of remote and hybrid arrangements compared to roles with heavy in-person compliance or facilities responsibilities.
How do you become a people operations specialist?
Most people operations specialists start with a bachelor's degree in human resources, business, or psychology, then build hands-on experience in an HR coordinator or generalist role. From there, gaining proficiency in at least one major HRIS platform, learning the basics of employment law and benefits administration, and earning a SHRM-CP or PHR certification will move your candidacy to the top of most employer lists.
Can you get hired as a people operations specialist without much experience?
Yes, entry-level people operations specialist roles do exist, particularly at startups and mid-size companies that need someone to own HR administration without a large team structure. The strongest candidates with limited experience emphasize internships or part-time HR work, demonstrate familiarity with a common HRIS tool, and show they've handled confidential employee information responsibly in any prior role.
What does the people operations specialist interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter screen focused on your HR background and tool experience, followed by a hiring manager interview covering how you've handled specific HR scenarios such as an offboarding, a policy rollout, or a compliance issue. Many employers add a practical exercise, such as drafting an HR communication or walking through how you'd set up an onboarding workflow, before a final panel or offer stage.
Where can I find and apply to people operations specialist jobs?
You can find and apply to people operations specialist jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Find roles that match your experience level and specialization, then apply directly to each listing from the page.
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