--- title: 'People Operations Manager at Quindar' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/people-operations-manager-quindar-denver-p75qrg10x4f1' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-24' --- # People Operations Manager at Quindar - **Company:** Quindar - **Location:** Denver, CO - **Compensation:** $95k–$135k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-18 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-24 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quindar/b8977590-ee40-4d7e-bf37-bd5757091a6e ## Job description ## What You’ll Be Doing The People Operations Manager will oversee the employee lifecycle at Quindar—from recruiting and onboarding through ongoing employee support and offboarding. This is a broad, hands-on role that combines human resources, hiring, event planning, workplace programs, and employment compliance. You will serve as a trusted resource for employees and managers while ensuring that our people practices are organized, consistent, compliant, and aligned with Quindar’s culture. The right person enjoys creating structure, solving practical problems, and shifting comfortably between strategic projects and day-to-day execution. This role reports to Business Operations Manager. ## Key Responsibilities People Operations and Employee Experience - Manage core people operations across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, employee changes, leave, benefits administration, and offboarding. - Serve as a responsive and trusted point of contact for employee questions. - Maintain accurate employee records, policies, templates, and internal documentation. - Coordinate benefits enrollment, renewals, and employee communications in partnership with brokers and vendors. - Support performance-review, compensation-review, employee-engagement, and professional-development processes. - Help managers navigate employee relations and people-management questions with consistency and good judgment. - Build scalable processes that preserve a thoughtful, high-quality employee experience as Quindar grows. - Manage relationships with relevant HR, benefits, payroll, recruiting, and employment vendors. Compliance and Risk Management - Maintain compliance with applicable federal, state, and local employment requirements. - Coordinate required filings, notices, workplace postings, training, and recordkeeping. - Keep employee handbooks and people policies current in partnership with legal counsel and external advisors. - Support compliance related to hiring, worker classification, compensation, leave, benefits, accommodations, and terminations. - Track changes in employment requirements and recommend updates to Quindar’s policies and practices. - Support employment-related audits, diligence requests, and government or customer reporting requirements. Recruiting and Hiring - Partner with hiring managers to define roles, create job descriptions, and develop hiring plans. - Manage job postings, applicant tracking, interview scheduling, and candidate communications. - Source and screen candidates for selected roles. - Design organized and equitable interview processes, including scorecards and interviewer guidance. - Coordinate offers, reference checks, background checks, and pre-employment requirements. - Monitor recruiting activity and help improve time-to-hire, candidate experience, and hiring quality. - Develop talent pipelines and strengthen Quindar’s employer brand. Events and Culture - Plan and execute company offsites, team gatherings, celebrations, and other employee events. - Manage event logistics, including schedules, venues, travel, lodging, catering, vendors, budgets, and communications. - Develop programs and rituals that strengthen connection and collaboration across the company. - Gather employee feedback and continually improve company events and the broader employee experience. - Support internal communications and company-wide meetings as needed. ## Qualifications - 4+ years of experience in people operations, human resources, recruiting, or a related role. - Experience independently managing multiple stages of the employee lifecycle. - Experience in a startup, technology company, aerospace company, or other highly regulated environment. - Working knowledge of U.S. employment practices and compliance requirements. - Experience coordinating recruiting processes and delivering a strong candidate experience. - Demonstrated ability to plan complex events, manage vendors, and stay within budget. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. - Excellent organization, follow-through, and attention to detail. - Sound judgment and the ability to handle sensitive situations with empathy and discretion. - A practical, service-oriented approach paired with a willingness to improve inefficient processes. - Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where priorities may evolve. - Proficiency with HRIS, applicant-tracking, payroll, benefits, and collaboration tools. ## Nice to Have - Experience supporting a distributed, hybrid, or multi-state workforce. - Experience working with a professional employer organization or employer-of-record provider. - Familiarity with immigration coordination, government contracting requirements, or security-related workforce processes. - Experience implementing or migrating HR systems. - Relevant certification, such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR. ## ITAR REQUIREMENTS - To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicants must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (also known as a green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. ## Why you'll love working at Quindar - We work in a cutting-edge industry, and you will have the opportunity to be part of a small team with a direct impact on the success of our customers’ space missions. - We take work-life balance seriously. We require employees to take at least 15 days off, provide unlimited PTO, and observe most U.S. federal holidays. - Mental health is just as important as physical health, so we provide quarterly health and wellness benefits. - We provide comprehensive health insurance for employees and their families, with 100% coverage for employees. - We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide a 4% 401(k) match. - Each year, we hold a four-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Palm Springs, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City. - Our culture and company are evolving. You will play an important role in creating the next major—or minor—version! ## About Quindar ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Quindar provides a cloud-native, automation-first mission management platform that enables satellite operators to monitor, control, and automate spacecraft operations at scale. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: Arvada, Colorado, United States - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Nate Hamet (CEO), Zach Meza (Head of Engineering & Co-Founder), Shaishav Parekh (Co-Founder), Sandilya Bhagavathula (Co-Founder), David Lawrence (Co-Founder & Head of Strategy) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Space Technology / Satellite Operations / Aerospace & Defense - **Target customers**: Commercial satellite operators, government space agencies (e.g., NASA), defense organizations, and constellation operators (B2B, Enterprise, Government) - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Satellites are flying servers in space, we provide the ground software to keep them up and running." The company aims to democratize space by providing the IT infrastructure for satellite operations, allowing customers to focus on their mission. ## Products & Services - **Quindar Mission Management Platform**: A cloud-hosted, one-stop-shop for spacecraft analysis, test, and operations. It provides a Common Operating Picture (COP) for multi-mission awareness, system-of-systems integration, and automation. Key features include: - **Automation-First Operations**: Allows a single engineer to operate hundreds of satellites. - **Common Operating Picture**: Unifies visibility and control across spacecraft, payloads, and ground systems. - **System-of-Systems Integration**: Integrates with existing satellite architectures (e.g., AWS, Atlas antennas, KSAT) without forcing replacement. - **Resiliency**: Adapts to disruptions across spacecraft, networks, and ground infrastructure. - **Open Architecture (MOSA)**: Built on modular, standards-based principles for vendor independence. - **Security**: Built on AWS GovCloud with FedRAMP and NIST security controls. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$8.8M** across 6 rounds (Seed, Pre-Seed, Grants). Annual Revenue estimated at **$3.2M**. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - **Booz Allen Ventures** (strategic investment in July 2024) - **FUSE** (led the $6M Seed round in January 2024) - **KSAT** (Kongsberg Satellite Services) – partnership for antenna network integration - **Y Combinator** (Summer 2022 batch) - **Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)** - **Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade** - **Growth Signals**: - **Headcount**: 45 employees (+68.8% YoY growth) - **LinkedIn Followers**: 4,517 (+57% YoY) - **Active Job Postings**: 30 (+650% YoY growth in postings) - **Recent News**: Booz Allen Ventures investment (2024), $6M Seed extension (2024), partnership with KSAT (2024) - **Talent Sources**: Strong hiring from Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Sierra Space, Capella Space, and Metrea Orbital Effects. ## Competitive Advantages - **Founding Team Expertise**: Founded by six former OneWeb engineers who built the software platform operating the second-largest satellite constellation in orbit. They have deep, first-hand experience with the pain points of legacy ground systems. - **Cloud-Native & Automation-First**: Unlike legacy COTS products built 20+ years ago, Quindar is a modern, web-native SaaS platform designed for scale (hundreds of satellites per operator). - **Vendor Independence**: The platform integrates with existing hardware and software (antennas, satellites, ground systems) without requiring replacement, reducing customer lock-in and migration risk. - **Government & Defense Trust**: Already trusted by government and defense organizations, with a focus on FedRAMP and NIST security controls, positioning it well for the growing defense space market. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling the Platform**: Continuing to build out automation and AI tools for spacecraft management (e.g., AI-driven anomaly detection). - **Government & Defense Expansion**: Deepening relationships with US government and defense agencies, as evidenced by the Booz Allen investment and dedicated business development roles. - **Partnership Ecosystem**: Expanding integrations with antenna networks (KSAT, Atlas) and cloud providers (AWS) to offer a more complete, turnkey solution. - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, product, and business development to support rapid growth. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Mission**: A fast-paced, engineering-driven startup founded by operators who "lived the pain" of satellite operations. The mission is to democratize space and make satellite operations as reliable as cloud computing. - **Growth Trajectory**: The company is in a high-growth phase (68% headcount growth, 650% job posting growth YoY), offering significant career advancement opportunities. - **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: The company has a presence in Arvada, CO, and Irvine, CA, and appears to support remote work (job postings list multiple US locations). The Y Combinator profile lists "Irvine, CA, US / Arvada, CO, US" as locations. - **Engineering Culture**: Described as "automation first" and "mission ready." The team is composed of engineers from top aerospace and tech companies (OneWeb, Lockheed Martin, Boeing). The tech stack is modern (cloud-native, AWS GovCloud). - **Notable Perks**: Working on cutting-edge space technology with a direct impact on national security and commercial space infrastructure. The company is backed by top-tier investors (Y Combinator, Booz Allen). ## Sources 1. [quindar.space](https://quindar.space/) 2. [quindar.space/about-us](https://quindar.space/about-us/) 3. [linkedin.com/company/quindarspace](https://www.linkedin.com/company/quindarspace) 4. [ycombinator.com/companies/quindar](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/quindar) 5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/quindar](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quindar) 6. [spacenews.com](https://spacenews.com/quindar-raises-6-million-for-automation-of-satellite-constellation-operations/) 7. 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