People Operations Apprentice

At Algolia, we are passionate about helping developers & product teams connect their users with what matters most in milliseconds! We are a global company and our People team plays a key role in supporting our dynamic and distributed workforce.

We're looking for a proactive, curious, and detail-oriented People Operations Apprentice to join our team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone starting their HR career to gain hands-on experience in a tech environment.

You'll contribute to a wide variety of People Operations tasks, from onboarding to employee support, while being mentored by experienced People team members. You'll also get to learn how we manage HR systems, support compliance, and continuously improve the employee experience across our global workforce.

We're looking for an organized, flexible, and detail-oriented person who's enthusiastic about both the practical and operational as well as the more creative work of our HR department. We'll need our apprentice to hit the ground running — helping to own employee data, assisting with excellent on and offboarding experiences, and becoming a go-to person for everything related to benefits and HR administration across the globe..

Your role will consist of:

Onboarding & Offboarding Support

• Help deliver our five-star onboarding experience.
• Support offboarding administration and exit logistics.
• Collaborate with Recruiting and IT to ensure a smooth new hire process.

Employee Lifecycle & Support

• Act as a Tier 1 contact for employee questions regarding benefits, leaves, and HR policies.
• Provide accurate and timely responses via our internal helpdesk, ensuring a great employee experience.
• Support HR documentation and compliance practices across the employee lifecycle.

HR Systems & Documentation

• Update and maintain employee data in HRIS systems under supervision.
• Participate in documenting HR processes and SOPs for internal use.
• Contribute to knowledge management by updating internal help center articles.

Collaboration & Payroll Coordination

• Assist in payroll preparation and coordination with Finance and Sales Ops teams.
• Support projects related to time tracking, benefits enrollment, and leave tracking.
• Participate in internal initiatives and process improvement efforts.

• GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment.
• TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership.
• CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
• CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
• HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.

FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:

Algolia's flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual's impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.

While we have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Please note that positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the nature of the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.

ABOUT US:

Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.

Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative new companies that are driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs that make developers' lives easier; solutions that are better than building from scratch and better than having to tweak monolithic SaaS solutions.

In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalized enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customers–including Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

We're looking for talented, passionate people to build the world's best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We're committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.

READY TO APPLY?

If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world's best search & discovery technology, we'd love to review your application!