Cresta is hiring a People Operations Partner to grow, support, and optimize the infrastructure behind our employee experience. As we continue in hyper-growth mode, you'll be responsible for building scalable systems, automation, and data intelligence to support this next wave of our growth.

What You'll Do

Own and evolve our People & Recruiting systems ecosystem to ensure scalability, compliance, and operational excellence.
Execute employee life cycle events including onboarding, offboarding, job changes, documentation, and data changes across HR systems.
Help refine and document standard operating procedures and service level agreements.
Serve as the subject matter expert for HRIS architecture, integrations, workflows, and automation, with minimal supervision.
With guidance from the People leadership team, own system enhancements, configuration changes, testing, and release management with precision.
Drive implementation of new People technology, including requirements gathering, vendor partnership, UAT, rollout, and adoption measurement.
Design and optimize workflow management tools to improve service delivery speed, transparency, and employee self-service.
Build dashboards and reporting frameworks that enable leaders to make data-driven talent decisions.
Ensure data integrity, governance, and audit readiness across all People systems.
Work closely with the Payroll team to provide timely payroll inputs US & International locations.
Partner cross-functionally with Payroll, Finance, IT, Legal, and Talent Acquisition on integrations and shared systems initiatives.
Identify manual or fragmented processes and proactively design automated, scalable solutions.
Document governance models, system architecture decisions, and operating procedures to reduce single-threaded ownership risk.
Support global compliance and data privacy standards across Canada, the US, Europe, and other emerging regions.
Work with Global Mobility process owners to support the mobility request from current employees and future hires across multiple geographies.
Administer employee documents and operations on connected HR systems (such as EOR providers).

What We're Looking For

5+ years of experience in People Operations, HRIS, or People Systems roles.
Experience operating in high-growth environments.
Hands-on expertise in HRIS platforms (HiBob, Workday, or similar), including configuration and integrations.
Strong understanding of workflow automation, system architecture, and data governance.
Experience leading or owning technology implementations end-to-end.
Strong analytical capability; comfortable building dashboards and translating data into insight.
Knowledge of Canadian employment standards.
Highly organized with strong documentation discipline.
Thrives in ambiguity, moves with urgency, and takes ownership without waiting for direction.

Nice to Have

Exposure to US and/or EMEA compliance is highly desirable.
You’ve experienced company growth from approximately 500 to 1,500+ employees, and understand what operationally breaks at scale.
You’ve been part of a team that has re-architected, or significantly upgraded HR systems, not just maintained them.
You’ve operated across multiple geographies (North America, Europe, and ideally Asia), navigating global compliance and data privacy complexities.
You’ve built frameworks that reduced manual work and improved system reliability.
You’ve supported global expansions, major workforce transformations.
You think long-term — designing systems that balance employee experience, compliance, and operational efficiency.

Technical Stack

HiBob, Workday, Greenhouse, Ashby, Gem

Team & Environment

You will join a 500+ global Cresta team as part of the People Operations team, reporting to the People leadership team.

Benefits & Compensation

A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs.
Paid parental leave.
Monthly Health & Wellness allowance.
Work from home office stipend.
Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees.
PTO: 3 weeks in Canada.
Compensation includes a base salary of CAD $130,000–$175,000, equity, and a variety of benefits.