People Operations Specialist

AI is rapidly transforming the world. Whether it’s developing the next generation of human-level intelligence, multi-agent systems, human quality voice assistants, or enabling researchers to analyze genetic markers at scale, AI is increasingly integrated into various aspects of our daily lives.

Arize is the leading AI observability and Evaluation platform to help AI teams discover issues, diagnose problems, and improve the results of their AI Applications. In short: we are here to build world class software that helps make AI applications work better.

The Team

Our People Operations team is looking for a dynamic individual to partner with our People Operations team to help execute our People Operations administrative duties, while building upon employee engagement initiatives during a stage of rapid growth. This individual will work closely with the Head of Finance & Operations and the other People Operations Specialist on the team. This role must be extremely detail oriented, while able to balance various tasks/projects effectively. With anticipated growth, this role will be ever changing and will require the candidate to be adaptable and open-minded.

What You’ll Do

• Provide timely and reliable support directly to employees as the go-to individual for all HR and benefit-related inquiries
• Responsible for all regular HR administrative functions: HRIS updates, audits and document organization
• Facilitate onboarding and off-boarding of employees, including review of background checks, I-9 verification, and updates to our HRIS
• Maintain up-to-date policies, employee programming and new hire resources
• Support bi-annual Employee performance review process
• Administer employee engagement surveys
• System administrator for Lattice (people success platform)
• Partner with our PEO on benefit plan renewal and administration
• Plan and execute culture events; including employee celebrations, virtual happy hours, in-person offsites, town halls or meetings, etc.
• Assist with talent acquisition tasks, including recruiting coordination, developing internal processes and external-facing recruitment messaging

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of experience in People related functions in an evolving and high growth environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with all levels of the organization
• Ability to prioritize, work independently and maintain flexibility in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy, organizational and time management skills
• Ability to maintain discretion when dealing with highly sensitive and confidential matters

The estimated annual salary for this role is between $100,000 – $150,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is determined based upon a variety of job related factors that may include: transferable work experience, skill sets, and qualifications. Total compensation also includes a comprehensive benefit package, including: medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, unlimited paid time off, generous parental leave plan, and others for mental and wellness support.

While we are a remote-first company, we have opened offices in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area, as an option for those in those cities who wish to work in-person. For all other employees, there is a WFH monthly stipend to pay for co-working spaces.

More About Arize

Arize’s mission is to make the world’s AI work and work for the people. Our founders came together through a common frustration: investments in AI are growing rapidly across businesses and organizations of all types, yet it is incredibly difficult to understand why a machine learning model behaves the way it does after it is deployed into the real world.

Learn more about Arize in an interview with our founders: https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickdaso/2020/09/01/arize-ai-helps-us-understand-how-ai-works/#322488d7753c

Diversity & Inclusion @ Arize

Our company’s mission is to make AI work and make AI work for the people, we hope to make an impact in bias industry-wide and that’s a big motivator for people who work here. We actively hope that individuals contribute to a good culture

• Regularly have chats with industry experts, researchers, and ethicists across the ecosystem to advance the use of responsible AI
• Culturally conscious events such as LGBTQ trivia during pride month
• We have an active Lady Arizers subgroup