HR Operations Lead – People Infrastructure

🕒 July 29

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SandboxAQ

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔒 Cybersecurity

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Pharmaceuticals

SandboxAQ is a company developing quantitative AI and quantum-inspired technologies to solve real-world problems across drug discovery, materials science, cybersecurity, and navigation. They build large quantitative models (LQMs) grounded in physics and chemistry to predict molecular properties, accelerate therapeutic design, and simulate complex chemical and catalytic processes, while also applying their expertise in AI and post-quantum cryptography to enhance digital security and navigation in GPS-denied environments.

📋 Description

• Own HR Operations for North America across the employee lifecycle, while partnering on selected global processes and initiatives. • Lead operational excellence across employee changes, leaves, separations, compliance, documentation, and employee support. • Own and improve core HR systems, workflows, and operating infrastructure with a focus on scale, usability, control, and reliability. • Translate policy into clear, workable processes and build durable operating practices, documentation, and governance. • Strengthen workflows for contractors, consultants, advisors, and other non-employee populations. • Manage and develop junior HR Operations team members, creating clarity, accountability, and stronger execution across the team. • Partner closely with the People Team, Talent Acquisition, Finance, Legal, IT, Security, and other stakeholders to improve how work moves across the business. • Identify friction, reduce manual work, and introduce practical uses of AI, automation, and agentic workflows to improve quality, speed, and scale. • Help the function evolve for the future by building infrastructure that can support a more complex organization over time, including periods of rapid growth, change, or integration. • Lead on select sensitive employee relations matters including investigations, policy review, and decision making • Drive strategic projects and programs to make us more future ready (ex: roadmap for tech stack changes, new global time off policies)

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in HR Operations, People Operations, or HR systems-focused roles, with ownership of regional or multi-jurisdictional operations. • Minimum of 9+ years of progressive experience across HR systems, operational infrastructure, employee lifecycle processes, policy execution, and service delivery. • Prior people management experience, including meaningful experience coaching and developing junior team members. • Strong systems orientation and comfort with HRIS platforms, workflow tools, reporting, and process design. • Experience supporting company growth and change, with exposure to M&A, integration, or organizational transition work strongly preferred. • Ability to think beyond the current moment and design for where the company is going, not just where it is today. • Excellent communication skills and the ability to turn ambiguity into clear action. • Experience in an AI-focused, high-growth, or highly innovative environment, with credible ideas for how AI and agentic approaches can level up HR Operations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions • Retirement savings with company matching • Paid parental leave • Inclusive family-building benefits • Fully remote • Flexible paid time off • Company-wide seasonal breaks • Support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance • Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs