People Operations Generalist

Responsibilities

• Onboarding & Employee Lifecycle
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition and People Operations teams to ensure alignment for onboarding new hires
• Complete I-9 verifications and process E-Verify for all new hires
• Partner with a cross-functional onboarding team to stay current on new hire pipelines and ensure a seamless onboarding experience
• Own all H-1B and visa transfers for U.S. new hires
• Offboarding
• Partner with the PBP team to coordinate all the offboarding for the Americas
• Maintain up-to-date U.S. termination documentation across all states
• Complete and manage all involuntary offboarding documents at the direction of the Legal and PBP teams
• HRIS & Data Management
• Partner with team to manage our people data and maintain data integrity in our HRIS (HiBob)
• Immigration & Global Mobility
• Manage day-to-day immigration cases
• Manage global mobility cases end-to-end, including international transfers
• Coordinate with external immigration counsel on visa requests and ensure timely processing.
• Compliance & Operations
• Work with the Senior Manager to ensure legal compliance with all applicable U.S. federal, state, and local employment law
• Provide overall People Operations support to the team and organization through the ticketing system.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to develop workflow improvements and document new procedures.
• Identify and implement process improvements for efficiency and scale.
• Operate in an extremely organized manner, managing multiple and sometimes conflicting priorities, while being proactive and anticipating what needs to be done ahead of time.
• About You
• Bachelor's degree or higher with at least 3+ years of HR experience.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. federal, state, and local employment laws and industry best practices.
• Experience supporting a global workforce and a basic understanding of global employment law.
• Hands-on experience maintaining an HRIS system, including data entry, access management, reporting, and managing workflows.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple, and sometimes conflicting, priorities.
• Strong attention to detail with a focus on data accuracy and integrity.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills with a desire to work in a collaborative environment.
• Proven ability to handle highly confidential data with professiona
• ism and discretion.
• Excited to support the full employee journey at Harness.
• Work Location
• Hybrid, San Francisco Bay Area
• What you will have at Harness
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Flexible work schedule
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events

Benefits

Additional Information

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code - testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this "outer loop," helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle. Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform. Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend - enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery - and we're looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster. Position Summary We're looking for a People Operations Generalist to join our Global People Operations team! The ideal candidate thrives in a startup environment, is very hands-on, naturally curious, and highly collaborative. This role is based in the U.S., with a preference for candidates in the Bay Area. This role will be responsible for updating our HRIS, U.S. compliance, immigration, and supporting our People Business Partner team with a focus on supporting the Americas. This role will work cross-functionally with other G&A teams to provide operational, compliance, and administrative support to the business. This position reports to the Senior Manager, People Operations.

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