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    Fonio

    Marketing

    People Operations Manager

    Vienna, AustriaOn-SiteFull-time3+ yrs experience€65k – €80k / yearPosted 1mo ago
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    Job description

    We build AI voice agents for small and medium-sized businesses so they never miss a call and can focus on the work they actually love.

    Our AI handles every call automatically. But voice is just the beginning. Our vision: to build the world's first fully automated CRM.

    8,000+ customers. >€5M ARR. ~30% monthly growth. Target until EOY: €30M.

    We live ownership: you own your work end-to-end. No politics, few meetings, direct feedback.

    Your Role

    You own everything after a candidate signs, from contracts through offboarding, and automate as much of it as possible. We are looking for someone to build the structural backbone to enable rapid scaling.

    • Contracts & onboarding: Manage employment contracts for all employees (direct and indirect employment), organize equipment, accounts, workspaces, and support relocation of international colleagues.

    • HR tooling & automation: introduce and own an HRIS tool, automate workflows across systems.

    • Payroll: Organize and own internal payroll processes, including variable compensation calculation of all sales teams.

    • Compliance & people legal: Support international hiring (EU and non-EU), time-tracking, collective agreements, international taxation topics, etc.

    • Compensation: Manage and monitor compensation bands across teams/countries.

    • Events & culture: Organize internal and external events (hackathons, off-sites, etc.)

    • Offboarding: Manage offboarding of employees.

    • Later, people development: Design feedback cycles, L&D, career development (e.g. SDR academy).

    What to Expect

    • Solo, end-to-end ownership of everything people operations.

    • Hands-on operational work to build the foundation for automation/scaling.

    • Direct impact: your work has immediate influence on the culture of fonio.

    • Flat hierarchies: close collaboration across departments.

    What You Bring

    • 3+ year of People Ops, HR, or Operations experience, ideally startup or scale-up.

    • Knowledge about Austrian labor law, payroll, and collective agreements

    • Structured, hands-on working style.

    • AI and automation/workflow skills.

    • People-first, low ego. You thrive under intensity.

    • German native, strong English.

    What We Offer

    • €65,000 to €80,000

    • Equity

    • Relocation support

    • Daily lunch and dinner

    • Equipment of your choice

    • Regular team off-sites

    • On-site in Vienna, working directly with the core-team

    Hiring Process

    1. 15 min intro call

    2. 30 min skill interview

    3. 20 min culture fit with the founders

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    Fonio

    Fonio is a company focused on marketing and lead generation, particularly in the Austrian market.

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