People Operations Lead — Remote

About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity scale-up. The company is based in Paris, New-York City, Boston.

Our early investors include Scott Chacon, co-founder of GitHub, and Solomon Hykes, co-founder of Docker, alongside leading US and European VC firms. We raised our Series C in early 2026.

GitGuardian leads the way in securing the credential layer, helping organizations protect the secrets that let code, machines, and AI agents access systems with broad detection, identity context, and remediation at scale. Already trusted by 600K+ developers worldwide and by 50 of the Fortune 500

About your team and your mission

The People team owns the full employee lifecycle and translates company strategy into hiring, performance and development plans, across Europe and the US.

Our current EMEA People Operations Specialist is moving into an HRBP role, so we are looking for the person who will take over her scope and make it their own.

You will be the person Guardians turn to for anything touching their contract, payroll, benefits or first days at the company. You will also be the one the People team relies on to keep our HR data clean and our processes running month after month.

This is a hands-on role with real room to build. Beyond the day-to-day administration, you will own the onboarding journey end to end and help us push automation and AI further into our HR workflows.

You will be part of our 8-people team, reporting directly to the Chief People Officer, and you will work closely with the People and Finance teams.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Personnel administration: contracts, onboarding paperwork, medical visit coordination, health insurance, leave tracking and compliance. You will become our in-house expert on Payfit, Deel and our HRIS, Lucca.

• Payroll: prepare and check the monthly payroll inputs for France and for our international population, and keep employee data consistent across every tool.

• Onboarding and employee experience: own the onboarding journey from preboarding to ramp-up, prepare welcome packs, run onboarding sessions, and turn new hire feedback into concrete improvements.

• HR tools and automation: streamline internal processes, automate recurring workflows such as onboarding, reminders and approvals, and test AI solutions where they save the team real time.

• HR projects: contribute to the team's projects, from benefits reviews and compliance topics to HRIS improvements (work council, onboarding, data improvement in HRIS and more).

About you

If you think you match at least 70% of these criteria, please apply

Here's what we consider essential for success in this role:

• 2 to 5 years in HR operations in a fast-paced environment, including French payroll on Payfit, HRIS administration on Lucca, and an EOR platform such as Deel, ideally for a company under the Syntec collective agreement.

• Fluent in English and French, and used to working in English day to day.

• Detail-oriented and organized, able to run several topics at once without dropping any.

• Discreet with confidential information and genuinely warm with people: this job is equal parts rigor and People care.

• A high level of initiative: you spot what is broken and fix it rather than wait to be asked.

The following skills would strengthen your application but aren't required:

• A good grasp of tech startup dynamics, ideally through a period of strong headcount growth.

• Comfort with spreadsheets and reporting (pivot tables, nested IFs, IMPORTRANGE).

• Hands-on experience with AI and automation tools such as Dust, Claude Cowork or n8n, and the wish to push further.

Why is this role different?

A word from the manager, Gregory, our Chief People Officer: "People Ops is often described as the back office of HR. We see it the other way around. It is the first thing a new Guardian experiences, and the thing everyone notices the day it stops working. So we are not looking for someone to run the process as it is today. We are giving this role the room and the tools, including AI and automation, to redesign how we work. If you would rather fix something once than repeat it every month, you will enjoy it here."

Career path: evolution to more seniority, learning US Ops, and possibly, after 2 to 3 years, an HRBP or Learning and Development role.

The interview process

At GitGuardian, we are committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce.

We will ask for your gender on the application page to help us understand the diversity of our appl