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About the Role

Astro Mechanica is seeking a People Operations professional to own the employee journey from offer acceptance through offboarding, ensuring a seamless and exceptional employee experience. This role involves building scalable People Operations processes, supporting recruiting, managing benefits and HR compliance, and serving as a primary point of contact for employee inquiries.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable People Operations processes from the ground up.
• Support recruiting operations, including interview scheduling, candidate coordination, ATS administration, reporting, and recruiting metrics.
• Own benefits administration end-to-end, including enrollment, employee support, vendor management, compliance, annual renewals, and continuous improvements.
• Own HR compliance administration across multiple states, including claims management, compliance, and coordination with insurance carriers and external partners.
• Own onboarding execution, including employment documentation, HRIS setup, benefits enrollment, and first-day readiness.
• Support compensation planning, market benchmarking, equity administration, and annual compensation review cycles.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for employee questions related to benefits, policies, and HR operations.
• Own and continuously improve HR systems, documentation, workflows, and reporting.

Requirements

• 3–6+ years of experience in People Operations, HR Operations, Benefits Administration, or a generalist HR role with significant operational ownership.
• Working knowledge of U.S. employment law and multi-state HR compliance.
• Experience independently owning a benefits renewal cycle, including broker coordination, plan evaluation, employee communications, and open enrollment.
• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to build trust across all levels of the organization.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
• A proactive, ownership-oriented mindset.
• Ability to build processes, solve problems, and drive initiatives with minimal direction.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.
• Experience in aerospace, defense or another hardware-focused industry a plus.
• Familiarity with ITAR facilities a plus.

Skills

• People Operations
• HR Operations
• Benefits Administration
• Recruiting Operations
• ATS Administration
• HR Compliance
• Onboarding
• Compensation Planning
• HR Systems Management
• Interpersonal Skills
• Communication Skills
• Organizational Skills
• Attention to Detail

Location

• Onsite

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 3-6+ years

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) program
• Transparent stock option plan
• Self-managed and flexible time-off policy
• PTO
• Paid holidays
• Sick time

About the Company

• Astro Mechanica is a vertically integrated aerospace company building a faster, more connected future.
• Our mission is to democratize high-speed flight by making supersonic travel flexible, accessible, and sustainable.
• We believe that rapid, on-demand, point-to-point global mobility will become the new standard for moving people and goods across the planet.
• We are integrating our advanced airframe and engine technologies—which include Duality™, our proprietary dual-use propulsion system—with a new flight operations model to make supersonic transport as efficient and economical as commercial air travel is today.
• In the near term, we are developing adaptable, high-speed systems to close aircraft performance gaps for the United States government.
• We’re a team of passionate engineers dedicated to advancing aerospace.
• We’re generalists with specialist depth, united by a flat structure and a shared obsession with building things that work well.
• We move fast, stay pragmatic, and let engineering excellence speak louder than hierarchy.

Equal Opportunity

• Astro Mechanica is an equal opportunity employer.
• We proudly recruit and hire a diverse workforce and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.