Founding Employee Operations Generalist
1Sphere AI
Date: 3 hours ago
City: Oakland, CA
Salary:
$107,000
-
$120,000
per year
Contract type: Full time
1Sphere is pioneering AI transformation for the Fortune 500.
Founded by Sanjay Jeyakumar (previously Co-founder/CTO at Abnormal Security—now valued at $5B+, securing 25%+ of the Fortune 500), we're assembling an elite founding-stage team in Oakland to repeat this success in enterprise AI. Ship real solutions in weeks, master AI-native tooling, and make real impact to our F500 customers.
Employee Operations Generalist
Become the operational backbone at 1Sphere, managing office logistics, recruiting pipelines, and foundational HR processes. Critical role supporting rapid team growth, with competitive compensation, equity, and 100% health coverage. Perfect for empathetic executors.
What You'll Own
Office Operations Run the workspace that enables team productivity. Manage vendors, facilities, catering, equipment. Create an environment where engineers and GTM thrive. Handle logistics so team focuses on customers.
Recruiting Support Manage candidate pipeline for all open roles. Schedule interviews flawlessly, ensure exceptional candidate experience, handle offer process end-to-end. Enable fast hiring without dropping balls.
HR Foundations Set up benefits administration, build onboarding experience, create performance framework. Establish people operations that scale from 8 to 50 people. Define culture rituals and team rhythms.
Your First 90 Days
Must Have:
Build People Ops from Zero You're not inheriting someone else's playbooks—you're writing them. Every process, every ritual, every policy is yours to design. This becomes your portfolio for future Head of People roles.
Scale With High Growth Support hiring 15-20 people in year 1. You'll experience compressed people ops learning: benefits, onboarding, performance, culture—all in fast-forward. What takes 5 years elsewhere happens in 18 months here.
Path to Leadership This role becomes Head of People as we scale. You'll hire recruiters, people ops specialists, and build the team. Early ownership converts directly into leadership opportunity.
About 1Sphere
Most AI transformations stall in slide decks and endless migrations. At 1Sphere, we break the cycle—shipping real enterprise AI solutions in 90-day sprints, delivering tangible outcomes for Fortune 500 giants like SAP, Salesforce, Workday, and ServiceNow.
Founded by the former Co-Founder and CTO of Abnormal Security (trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500), we're not just riding the AI wave—we're building the infrastructure that powers it.
Compensation & Benefits
1Sphere is an equal opportunity employer. We value learning speed, ownership, and kindness above all. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds.
How to Apply
Submit your application including:
Compensation Range: $107K - $120K
Founded by Sanjay Jeyakumar (previously Co-founder/CTO at Abnormal Security—now valued at $5B+, securing 25%+ of the Fortune 500), we're assembling an elite founding-stage team in Oakland to repeat this success in enterprise AI. Ship real solutions in weeks, master AI-native tooling, and make real impact to our F500 customers.
Employee Operations Generalist
Become the operational backbone at 1Sphere, managing office logistics, recruiting pipelines, and foundational HR processes. Critical role supporting rapid team growth, with competitive compensation, equity, and 100% health coverage. Perfect for empathetic executors.
What You'll Own
Office Operations Run the workspace that enables team productivity. Manage vendors, facilities, catering, equipment. Create an environment where engineers and GTM thrive. Handle logistics so team focuses on customers.
Recruiting Support Manage candidate pipeline for all open roles. Schedule interviews flawlessly, ensure exceptional candidate experience, handle offer process end-to-end. Enable fast hiring without dropping balls.
HR Foundations Set up benefits administration, build onboarding experience, create performance framework. Establish people operations that scale from 8 to 50 people. Define culture rituals and team rhythms.
Your First 90 Days
- Run office operations smoothly (vendors, catering, facilities, equipment management)
- Manage recruiting pipeline for 10 open roles (schedule 50+ interviews, maintain exceptional candidate experience)
- Set up HR foundations (benefits enrollment, onboarding checklist, employee handbook v1, performance framework)
- Establish team rituals (weekly all-hands, monthly celebrations, quarterly planning)
Must Have:
- 2+ years in HR, people ops, or chief-of-staff roles (ran office operations, supported recruiting, handled employee requests)
- High empathy + execution rigor (cares deeply about people experience AND ships checklists, docs, processes; writes clear guides/policies)
- Comfortable building from scratch (excited to define processes vs. inherit them; comfortable as "first people hire")
- Startup or high-growth experience (built people ops from 0 to 50)
- Experience with HR systems (BambooHR, Gusto, Greenhouse, Ashby)
- Event planning or culture-building experience
Build People Ops from Zero You're not inheriting someone else's playbooks—you're writing them. Every process, every ritual, every policy is yours to design. This becomes your portfolio for future Head of People roles.
Scale With High Growth Support hiring 15-20 people in year 1. You'll experience compressed people ops learning: benefits, onboarding, performance, culture—all in fast-forward. What takes 5 years elsewhere happens in 18 months here.
Path to Leadership This role becomes Head of People as we scale. You'll hire recruiters, people ops specialists, and build the team. Early ownership converts directly into leadership opportunity.
About 1Sphere
Most AI transformations stall in slide decks and endless migrations. At 1Sphere, we break the cycle—shipping real enterprise AI solutions in 90-day sprints, delivering tangible outcomes for Fortune 500 giants like SAP, Salesforce, Workday, and ServiceNow.
Founded by the former Co-Founder and CTO of Abnormal Security (trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500), we're not just riding the AI wave—we're building the infrastructure that powers it.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary + meaningful founding-stage equity
- Medical/dental/vision covered at 100% for employee and dependents
- Oakland, CA headquarters (in-person - building culture and velocity requires proximity)
1Sphere is an equal opportunity employer. We value learning speed, ownership, and kindness above all. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds.
How to Apply
Submit your application including:
- Resume highlighting operations/HR work
- Cover letter addressing: "What makes a great onboarding experience?"
- Sample process doc or employee handbook section you've created
Compensation Range: $107K - $120K
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