---
title: 'People Operations Manager at Tremendous'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/people-operations-manager-tremendous-united-states-3zc12vyskbj0'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-22'
---

# People Operations Manager at Tremendous

- **Company:** Tremendous
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $110k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-22
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tremendous/819c6ff9-190e-4fe9-8aed-7798121ba266

## Job description

Tremendous is the global platform built for businesses to send thousands of payouts to anyone, anywhere, for free. We're trusted by 20,000 organizations like Atlassian, MIT, and United Way to deliver gift cards and money to millions of recipients worldwide. Our customers (researchers, marketers, HR teams, nonprofits, and platform businesses) rave about how fast and easy Tremendous is to use. [Check out our ratings on G2](https://www.g2.com/products/tremendous/reviews). Tremendous is profitable and growing without outside investors. We're a fully remote, high-documentation, low-meeting culture, which means more time for what matters in both your professional and personal life. The team agrees– our employee NPS is in the high 80s.

## About the role

We're ~175 people across the US, Canada, the UK, Brazil, and elsewhere, and we're launching our first dedicated people function. You'll own people operations end to end, you'll be the person anyone at the company can go to when something is wrong, and you'll run our immigration program in conjunction with outside counsel.

## What you'll do

- Own our HRIS and associated systems
- Administer benefits for US, Canadian, and international employees: open enrollment, carrier and broker escalations, HSA and FSA, COBRA, 401(k), and required annual notices.
- Own the employee handbook, HR wiki, and people policies. Write the ones we're missing.
- Own onboarding end to end: cohort logistics, new hire paperwork, and the first-90-days experience. Own offboarding, exit interviews, and severance logistics.
- Be the company's HR point of contact. Take reports, run investigations, and write up findings. Build the intake, trust, and escalation process that makes reporting feel obvious and low-risk.
- Run our biannual HR cycle — performance check-ins, compensation review, and the employee engagement survey — on schedule, and improve it each time.
- Handle off-cycle compensation changes, promotions, relocations, and international moves, and the comp implications that come with them.
- Partner with recruiting on international employment models (EOR, contractor)
- Own our immigration program: manage active O-1, L-1A, H-1B, and PERM matters end to end, drive outside counsel on timelines, track renewals and expirations before they become urgent, and own I-9 compliance and verification.

## What we're looking for

- You have excellent judgment in situations with no precedent, and you write down your reasoning.
- People trust you quickly, including people who don't know you yet. You hold confidences absolutely.
- You're proactive. You'd rather build the tracker than field the emergency.
- You're comfortable being senior and still doing the unglamorous work. This role includes open enrollment reminders and chasing I-9 signatures.
- You write clearly. We're a documentation-first company and you'll be writing policies, investigation summaries, and company-wide comms.

## What you'll bring

- 5+ years in people operations, HR, or a people partner role, including time at a company without a large HR team
- Experience independently running workplace investigations, including harassment matters, and writing defensible documentation
- Deep experience administering US benefits and leave; global benefits experience is a bonus
- Strong HRIS experience; Rippling preferred
- Direct, hands-on experience with employment-based immigration: H-1B, O-1, L-1, and PERM
- Experience running performance and compensation cycles for 100+ people

## What's cool about the role

- You're the first. You'll define what the people function is here rather than inheriting someone else's version of it, with direct access to leadership and real latitude to decide how this works.
- Competitive pay and equity. Base salary for this role: $110k to $160k.
- Real benefits. 100% covered health (US), unlimited PTO, 12-16 weeks paid parental leave.
- Fully remote. Work from anywhere in the Americas.
- Great culture. Read more about how we work in our [public handbook](https://handbook.tremendous.com/).

## About Tremendous

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tremendous is a payouts platform that enables businesses to send gift cards, prepaid cards, and money transfers to recipients around the world.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped, VC‑free, profitable, no outside investors since 2013)
- **Headquarters**: California, USA (fully remote team with employees spanning three continents)
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Nick Baum (CEO) and Kapil Kale (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Payouts and rewards infrastructure (fintech / payments)
- **Target customers**: B2B – researchers, marketers, HR leaders, class action administrators, nonprofits, and any organization that needs to send incentives or disbursements at scale.
- **Mission / purpose statement**: “Rewards and payouts, simplified” – helping businesses deliver rewards and incentives simply, scalably, and stress‑free.

## Products & Services
- **Tremendous Platform (SaaS)**: A web‑based dashboard for creating, sending, and tracking one‑time or bulk payouts. Supports 2,500+ gift cards, prepaid cards, money transfers, and charitable donations. Delivers via SMS, email, or bulk link export.
- **Tremendous API**: Allows businesses to programmatically integrate payouts into their own workflows, automate incentives, and scale disbursements globally.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (company is profitable and has no outside investors)
- **Key Metrics** (as of 2025/2026):
  - $2B+ funds delivered
  - 80M+ payouts sent
  - 20,000+ customers (including Google, MIT, Casper, Lyft, United Way, Federal Reserve Bank)
  - 200+ countries/regions supported
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: None – the company bought out its original investors in 2013 and has been fully owned by founders and employees ever since.
- **Growth Signals**: Team has grown to 150+ employees across three continents; the company is “constantly bringing on new customers and evolving the product”; profitable with no external pressure.

## Competitive Advantages
- **VC‑Free & Profitable**: No outside investors means decisions are made to serve customers and the team, not board decks or fundraising rounds.
- **Global Reach & Compliance**: Delivers to 200+ countries with automatic currency conversion and translation; SOC 2 Type II compliant with built‑in fraud prevention.
- **Recipient Choice**: Recipients can choose from 2,500+ gift cards, prepaid cards, or money – a UX differentiator that reduces friction.
- **Self‑Service & API**: Simple three‑step process for non‑technical users, plus a powerful API for scalable automation.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding product capabilities (e.g., prepaid card offerings) and deepening integrations for enterprise use cases.
- Maintaining a lean, low‑meeting culture while scaling the team globally.
- Continuing to prioritize customer value over growth‑at‑all‑costs.

## Why Work Here
- **Work model**: 100% remote – employees log on from multiple continents. Semi‑annual company offsites and in‑person team meetings.
- **Culture**: Autonomy, intentionality, and rationality. Few meetings, deep work, transparency, and no silos.
- **Compensation**: Competitive salaries and substantial equity packages for every level.
- **Perks**: Unlimited vacation days, generous parental leave, benefits, and a strong focus on work‑life balance.
- **Engineering & Product**: Led by co‑founder Kapil Kale; teams are empowered to make decisions and own outcomes.

## Sources
1. [tremendous.com/careers](https://www.tremendous.com/careers/)
2. [tremendous.com/about](https://www.tremendous.com/about/)
3. [tremendous.com/company-history](https://www.tremendous.com/company-history/)
4. [builtin.com/company/tremendous](https://builtin.com/company/tremendous)

## Other roles at Tremendous

- [Senior Product Designer, Foundations](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-designer-foundations-tremendous-united-states-8feg446wj221) — United States
- [Events Manager, Offsites & Experiences](https://feeny.ai/job/events-manager-offsites-experiences-tremendous-united-states-hj063nd3k2g3) — United States
- [Enterprise Account Executive - Higher Education](https://feeny.ai/job/enterprise-account-executive-higher-education-tremendous-united-states-6fkr0p9z2d7f) — United States
- [Senior Product Manager - Growth](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-manager-growth-tremendous-united-states-7da16ctaxwdp) — United States
- [Founding Enterprise Account Executive (EMEA - German Speaker)](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-enterprise-account-executive-emea-german-speaker-tremendous-united-0qh3j62wxx6z) — United Kingdom
- [Founding Mid-Market Account Executive (EMEA - German Speaker)](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-mid-market-account-executive-emea-german-speaker-tremendous-united-trtg89gyrk9z) — United Kingdom
- [Senior Product Manager - Special Projects](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-manager-special-projects-tremendous-united-states-02vcrvjr2hqd) — United States
- [Senior Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-designer-tremendous-united-states-qkr046hktbpz) — United States
- [Head of Security](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-security-tremendous-united-states-wakb40749epp) — United States
- [Sales Development Representative, Outbound](https://feeny.ai/job/sales-development-representative-outbound-tremendous-austin-gkq6vm41qykv) — Austin, TX