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fonio

People Operations Manager at fonio (Vienna, Austria)

fonio· Vienna, Austria· €65k–€80k·

Role details

Salary
€65k–€80k
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

We build AI voice agents for small and medium-sized businesses so they never miss a call and can focus on the work they actually love. Our AI handles every call automatically. But voice is just the beginning. Our vision: to build the world's first fully automated CRM. 8,000+ customers. >€5M ARR. ~30% monthly growth. Target until EOY: €30M. We live ownership: you own your work end-to-end. No politics, few meetings, direct feedback.

Your Role

You own everything after a candidate signs, from contracts through offboarding, and automate as much of it as possible. We are looking for someone to build the structural backbone to enable rapid scaling.

  • Contracts & onboarding: Manage employment contracts for all employees (direct and indirect employment), organize equipment, accounts, workspaces, and support relocation of international colleagues.
  • HR tooling & automation: introduce and own an HRIS tool, automate workflows across systems.
  • Payroll: Organize and own internal payroll processes, including variable compensation calculation of all sales teams.
  • Compliance & people legal: Support international hiring (EU and non-EU), time-tracking, collective agreements, international taxation topics, etc.
  • Compensation: Manage and monitor compensation bands across teams/countries.
  • Events & culture: Organize internal and external events (hackathons, off-sites, etc.)
  • Offboarding: Manage offboarding of employees.
  • Later, people development: Design feedback cycles, L&D, career development (e.g. SDR academy).

What to Expect

  • Solo, end-to-end ownership of everything people operations.
  • Hands-on operational work to build the foundation for automation/scaling.
  • Direct impact: your work has immediate influence on the culture of fonio.
  • Flat hierarchies: close collaboration across departments.

What You Bring

  • 3+ year of People Ops, HR, or Operations experience, ideally startup or scale-up.
  • Knowledge about Austrian labor law, payroll, and collective agreements
  • Structured, hands-on working style.
  • AI and automation/workflow skills.
  • People-first, low ego. You thrive under intensity.
  • German native, strong English.

What We Offer

  • €65,000 to €80,000
  • Equity
  • Relocation support
  • Daily lunch and dinner
  • Equipment of your choice
  • Regular team off-sites
  • On-site in Vienna, working directly with the core-team

Hiring Process

  • 15 min intro call
  • 30 min skill interview
  • 20 min culture fit with the founders

Why work at fonio

  • Rapid Growth & Impact: The company is in a phase of hypergrowth (40% MoM), and employees are "still early enough that your work will genuinely shape the culture, the product, and the company." fonio.ai/en/careers
  • Culture: Described as fast, committed, and in-office by default. The team emphasizes moving fast and having fun. Most roles are Vienna-based, with the expectation of being in the office most days.
  • Remote Options: Engineering roles are fully remote (within ±3 hours of CET). For other roles, there is a temporary relocation to Vienna for onboarding (1-3 months), followed by relocation to the target market.
  • Relocation Support: The company sponsors travel and accommodation in Vienna for the onboarding period and offers full relocation support for moving to target markets.
  • Team Size: Around 40-50 people, with plans to double by the end of the year.
  • Hiring Process: A 3-4 step process: 15-minute intro call, 30-45 minute skills interview (sometimes with a case study), potentially a deeper skills or leadership interview, and a final 20-minute culture call with both founders. fonio.ai/en/careers

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