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title: 'People (HR) Operations Manager at Neural Earth'
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# People (HR) Operations Manager at Neural Earth

- **Company:** Neural Earth
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neural-earth/fff96e1d-e4af-4a37-88b6-c54fac280bff

## Job description

## THE COMPANY

We are NEURAL EARTH. We bring clarity to physical risk, enabling leaders to engage with confidence and enact resilient, business-critical decisions. Today's environmental, economic, and infrastructure challenges are deeply interconnected, yet the data required to understand these relationships is scattered across siloed and aging systems. Neural Earth enables operational execution, delivering a single decision intelligence platform that unifies planetary, governmental, and asset-level data, always on and always learning. This is technical work that requires patience. It requires teams willing to operate at the intersection of AI research, geospatial science, distributed systems, and enterprise deployment. It is also incredibly rewarding. Join us at Neural Earth — the next frontier is here.

## THE TEAM

You will join Neural Earth's G&A Team, reporting to our Chief Financial Officer (CFO), as the first person here dedicated solely to People Operations execution. This is a team of one, and the day-to-day is yours: you will own payroll, hiring, and employee support outright for a company of less than 30 across two legal entities in the US and abroad. The G&A Team is responsible for Finance, Legal, Operations, and People for the entire company, and you are the expert we are hiring to lead the People needs of the organization.

## THE ROLE

As the People (HR) Operations Manager, you will own payroll and contractor payments first: payroll administration, tax registrations, W2 management, and accounts payable for contractors across two entities in the US and abroad. From there, you own the entire employee lifecycle and the systems that make it possible (HRIS, ATS, onboarding, leave, hiring). This role also owns the complete hiring process end to end: headcount approval, job description, compensation banding, first-round candidate screens, and partnering with hiring managers all the way to offer. When headcount opens faster than one person can screen, you will have access to external recruiting support, but the process, the pipeline, and the outcome stay yours. You will shape how we run as a company, from onboarding through the all-hands agenda. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will have both the mandate and the support to get things done. This is you!

## HOW YOU’LL BE SUCCESSFUL

- Manage: Payroll and contractor payments across two entities, in the US and globally: payroll administration, onboarding and offboarding, payroll registration and maintenance; W2 management across Rippling, Gusto, and QuickBooks, and accounts payable for contractors, including 1099 reporting.
- Own: The employee lifecycle end to end: policy management, employment documentation and file maintenance, new device management and retrieval, leave administration, and offboarding, across our HRIS.
- Hire: The complete hiring process end to end: headcount approval, job description refinement and approval, ATS administration, first-round candidate screens, compensation, and negotiations through offer.
- Support: Leaders and employees as their day-to-day People partner, advising on people solutions and workforce planning, and building the kind of trust that gets problems brought to you early instead of after they've grown.
- Cultivate: The culture and environment that lets our people do the best work of their lives: reinforcing what we value day to day, building the rhythms and moments (including the all-hands) that keep the company connected, and creating the conditions where performance and growth actually happen.

## WHY WE VALUE YOU

- You know Rippling deeply, not just how to run a cycle in it, but how to configure it and where it breaks.
- You have registered payroll tax accounts across multiple states and resolved the notices that follow: you can read one, work out what the agency actually wants, and close it out before it turns into a penalty.
- You have paid international contractors and managed contractor payments end to end, AP, 1099 reporting, and vendor compliance, without letting them or the entities they sit under get tangled.
- You have administered leave and claims: parental leave, disability, paid family leave, unemployment, and you know what the agencies actually need and when.
- You know your way around Ashby, or an ATS close to it, and you have screened candidates yourself and carried offers through negotiation to signature.
- You treat sensitive information as sensitive and people know that about you without having to ask.
- You document a process the first time you run it, so that the second time someone else could.
- You are precise where precision matters. Someone's pay is not a place for approximations.
- You are comfortable being the only person who owns this, and equally comfortable standing in front of the whole company to talk about it.
- You hold confidential information and use discretion without being asked to, and people trust you as a sounding board because you listen first and exercise good judgment before you ever weigh in.

## REQUIREMENTS

- 4–7 years in People Operations or recruiting, including time as the primary owner of a hiring process rather than a contributor to one
- Hands-on Rippling administration experience, covering payroll cycles and onboarding workflows
- Hands-on ATS experience (Ashby or similar), including running candidate screens and managing a pipeline end to end
- Multi-state US payroll tax registration and compliance experience
- Experience paying international contractors and supporting two or more legal entities
- Ability to accommodate occasional travel as needed 10%

## COMPENSATION

The salary range for this position is $110,000 to $140,000 annually, reflecting progression within the role based on demonstrated growth and impact. At Neural Earth, we believe in pay equity, transparency, and rewarding growth. Our compensation philosophy is built on an equitable model with offers based on role, level, and expertise. This approach ensures that all employees are paid fairly and equitably without the influence of external factors like negotiation skills or previous pay history. This structure provides clarity, consistency, and alignment between pay, performance, and career development.

## BENEFITS

At Neural Earth, taking care of our people isn't just something we strive for, it's who we are. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support you at every stage, whether you're advancing your career, growing your family, or planning for the future. From day one, you'll have access to:

- Competitive base compensation regardless of work location
- Company performance-based cash bonuses
- Majority employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Group Life Insurance at 2x your base salary, paid by the company
- FSA and HSA options to maximize your healthcare dollars

We know that when people feel supported, they can focus on what matters most at Neural Earth which is doing great work, growing in their careers, and making a meaningful impact.

## About Neural Earth

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Neural Earth provides a unified geospatial intelligence platform that fuses AI, remote-sensing pipelines, hazard models, and large-scale spatial analytics to help organizations assess property-level risk, manage assets, and identify market opportunities.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: United States (specific city not publicly disclosed; roles listed as US-based and Global)
- **Founded**: Year not publicly disclosed; company operates as Neural Labs, Inc.
- **Founders**: Austin Childs (CEO, Co-Founder) and Dan Lopez (CTO, Co-Founder) [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/leadership)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Geospatial Intelligence, Climate Risk Analytics, AI/ML, PropTech, InsurTech
- **Target customers**: B2B — specifically insurance carriers and underwriters, real estate and asset managers, and financial institutions needing property-level risk and market intelligence
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Geospatial intelligence for a resilient world" — turning complexity from a changing planet into clarity for physical and financial systems [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)

## Products & Services
- **Neuron**: An AI and geospatial infrastructure platform for building data pipelines, running models, and deploying applications at scale [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)
- **Prometheus**: An AI-driven geospatial analytics engine for risk assessment and market response. It integrates structural, environmental, financial, and behavioral signals at the asset level to replace fragmented data sources and manual workflows. Used for faster diligence, loss compression, and selection advantage [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/)
- **Risk**: A product focused on analyzing property-level risk and managing assets at scale using AI-powered geospatial capabilities [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)
- **Studio**: A product for AI-driven geospatial analysis to explore markets and identify new opportunities [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)
- **Gaia**: An AI-powered analysis engine within the platform [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)
- **Neural Earth Catalog**: Built-in data resources including remote-sensing data, hazard models, and feature extraction tools [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (Private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Closes More Than $9M in Oversubscribed Seed Round (date not specified, but recent as of 2025/2026) [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not individually named in available materials; partnerships extend "beyond the tech community to include business customers, academia, and non-profits" [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/leadership)
- **Growth Signals**: Oversubscribed seed round of $9M+; launch of multiple product offerings (Neuron, Prometheus, Studio, Risk); claims that customers identify "4× more on-strategy opportunities" and "50% loss compression" in underwriting workflows [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform** that replaces "up to a dozen fragmented data sources" with one integrated system [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/)
- **Asset-level precision** combining structural, environmental, financial, and behavioral signals — providing "150+ variables per parcel"
- **Real-time geospatial compute** and AI-powered analytics that compress weeks of manual data collection into seconds of actionable intelligence
- **Auditable trail** for every decision, providing defensible evidence for underwriting and investment [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/)

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the unified ecosystem of geospatial intelligence products
- Expanding into insurance and real estate verticals with property-level risk assessment
- Building out AI/ML pipelines and large-scale batch processing capabilities
- Growing the team across engineering, product, sales, and climate risk domains

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Team composed of "experts, operators, visionaries, and technologists from a variety of different backgrounds and skill sets" — values cross-sector collaboration including academia and nonprofits [neural-earth.io](https://www.neural-earth.io/careers)
- **Remote policy**: Fully remote company — all listed positions are "Remote" with a mix of "Contract to full time" and direct "Full time" options [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neural-earth)
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI and geospatial technology at the intersection of climate risk and financial systems; early-stage company with oversubscribed seed funding providing growth trajectory; roles span AI/ML, platform engineering, geospatial data science, product design, and sales
- **Open positions as of search date**: AI/ML Engineer, Account Executive, Geospatial Data Scientist, Mechanical Engineer, Staff Platform Engineer, Sales Engineer, Senior Product Designer, plus open applications [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neural-earth)

## Sources
1. [neural-earth.io](http://neural-earth.io/) — Company website, product descriptions, funding announcement
2. [neural-earth.io/careers](https://www.neural-earth.io/careers) — Careers page, team culture description
3. [neuralearth.ai](https://www.neuralearth.ai/) — Prometheus product page, customer value claims, industry focus
4. [neuralearth.ai/leadership](https://www.neuralearth.ai/leadership) — Leadership team details, co-founders
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/neural-earth](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neural-earth) — Open job listings, remote policy

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