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# People Ops Manager at Instawork

- **Company:** Instawork
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/instawork/jobs/4721730006

## Job description

Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.

We’re hiring a People & Talent Manager to lead our talent function and run our People operations. This role sits at the manager or senior manager level and reports to our Chief Legal Officer. You will set the direction for how we hire, own the employee lifecycle, and build the systems that make both work. You also have bought into how AI is changing how we work. We want someone who looks for ways to use it. You simplify work, automate processes, and build employee experiences that scale.

## Key Responsibilities

Talent Leadership

- Set talent acquisition strategy, and develop our recruiters through coaching, feedback, and clear growth paths.
- Evaluate our applicant tracking system and recruiting tools, and decide whether to keep, change, or replace them.
- Find and assess alternatives to LinkedIn Recruiter that improve sourcing quality and cost.
- Define and track recruiting metrics, including funnel conversion, time-to-fill, offer acceptance, and hiring-team SLAs. Change process based on what the data shows.
- Set and enforce standards for interview process, feedback, and candidate communication across teams and locations.
- Own the offer process from approval through onboarding handoff. Ensure every hire meets EEO, pay transparency, and salary-history requirements, with Finance and Legal.

People Operations & Employee Lifecycle

- Own the lifecycle from onboarding through offboarding, including employee changes and leaves. Make each step seamless for the employee.
- Serve as the primary contact for employees on People questions, policies, and workplace resources.
- Maintain HRIS records and the People data behind them. Audit regularly and recommend fixes.
- Support HR compliance, including classifications, required documentation, and policy updates. Take complex employee relations and legal matters to Legal.
- Manage benefits, including broker and vendor relationships, plan renewals, and open enrollment.

Manager Support & People Programs

- Advise managers on People policies, performance management, and employee concerns. Run performance review and calibration cycles.
- Build programs that improve employee experience, engagement, and culture.

AI Enablement

- Build AI-enabled workflows and tools that reduce manual work and make People information easier to access. Keep confidentiality, judgment, and human oversight in each one.

## What You Bring

- 6+ years in People, HR, or Talent roles, including experience leading recruiting or talent acquisition teams.
- Experience evaluating and implementing recruiting or HR technology, including an ATS. Greenhouse experience is a plus.
- Experience with sourcing platforms beyond LinkedIn Recruiter.
- Independent ownership of People processes and the employee lifecycle.
- Strong HRIS experience. Rippling experience is a plus.
- Benefits administration, including work with brokers and vendors on plan costs and utilization.
- Working knowledge of HR compliance, leaves, employee relations, and hiring law. Sound judgment about when to involve Legal.
- Experience supporting performance management cycles and company-wide People programs.
- Genuine interest in AI and automation, backed by professional use. Experience building AI-enabled workflows or internal tools is a strong plus.
- Attention to detail and reliable follow-through across competing priorities.
- A calm, solution-oriented approach to changing priorities and sensitive employee situations.
- Strong communication and the discretion to handle confidential employee matters.
- A drive to keep improving how work gets done.

## Our Values

- Empathy, Trust & Candor We put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback.

- Bias for Action We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct!

- Always Be Learning We’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry.

- Act Like an Owner We work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.

## About Instawork

Founded in 2015, [Instawork](https://www.instawork.com) is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we're supporting local economies—and we're just getting started!

Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Forbes included us on their Next Billion Dollar Startups list; RetailTech Breakthrough named us Workforce Hiring Solution of the Year for 2025; and Inc. 5000 recognized us as one of the country's top 10% fastest-growing companies two years in a row. But what matters most is our impact. We're solving real problems for real people, and we’re doing it at scale.

Join our team to help us build something that matters! We’re looking for superstars who want to help us shape the future of work. With hubs in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Chicago, city offices in New York, Phoenix, and Singapore, we're back to working together in-person five days a week because we believe the best ideas happen when great people collaborate face-to-face. We also value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

Ready to make an impact? Learn more at [www.instawork.com/about](http://www.instawork.com/about).

[Personnel Privacy Policy](https://info.instawork.com/legal/california-personnel-privacy-policy)

## About Instawork

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Instawork is a leading AI-powered labor marketplace that connects businesses with vetted, skilled hourly workers for shifts, temp-to-hire, and full-time roles across North America, and is expanding into humanoid robotics training.
- **Entity Type**: Private (pre-IPO; Series D stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Sumir Meghani (CEO), Deep Abhani (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Labor marketplace, flexible staffing, temporary staffing, AI-powered workforce management, robotics workforce training
- **Target customers**: B2B (businesses in hospitality, warehouse/logistics, manufacturing, retail, and light industrial sectors); also serves B2C (hourly workers seeking flexible shifts)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To create economic opportunities for local businesses and hourly workers across the globe" — empowering everyone to thrive in their careers.

## Products & Services
- **Instawork Platform (Core Marketplace)**: An AI-powered mobile app and web platform where businesses post shifts and workers browse and book them. Features background checks, skills verification, ratings, and automated payroll, taxes, and insurance. Fills 90% of jobs within 24 hours.
- **Instawork Robotics**: A new division that pays employees to help train humanoid robots, expanding Instawork’s labor marketplace into AI and robotics data generation and validation. Includes roles like Founding Machine Learning Lead, Field Engineering Technician, and Robotics AI Campus Lead.
- **Top Pro Program**: Rewards high-performing workers with access to more shifts and cash bonuses.
- **'Captains' Program**: Sends vetted on-site shift leaders to manage large groups of workers for businesses.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (pre-IPO private company); last known Series D valuation was not publicly reported.
- **Key Metric**: Over 7 million hourly workers in its network (source: [instawork.com/about](https://www.instawork.com/about)); over 40 markets across North America (expanding to 60+ cities); 2+ billion data signals optimizing worker/business connections; 90% of jobs filled within 24 hours.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator (source: [Greenhouse jobs page](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/instawork)).
- **Growth Signals**: Launch of a dedicated Robotics division (2025-2026); active hiring for robotics, AI, and enterprise sales roles across multiple US and international hubs (San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Bengaluru, Vancouver, Monterrey, Austin, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chapel Hill).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network effects**: The largest platform connecting businesses to hourly workers (7M+ workers) creates a deep, defensible moat — more workers attract more businesses, and vice versa.
- **AI & data moat**: Billions of proprietary data signals (worker performance, fit, reliability) power a machine-learning engine that optimizes worker matching, increasing return rates and reducing churn.
- **Full-stack trust & safety**: Background checks, skills verification, worker ratings, on-shift insurance, and a dedicated Trust & Safety team lower risk for businesses.
- **50-state+ coverage**: Presence in 60+ metro areas across the US and Canada allows rapid scaling for multi-location enterprise clients.
- **New robotics pivot**: Leveraging its massive workforce to train humanoid robots creates a unique competitive position at the intersection of labor and AI infrastructure.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the core marketplace**: Expanding into new geographies (60+ cities) and verticals (e.g., light industrial, retail).
- **Enterprise growth**: Building out enterprise account management and strategic account teams for large clients in logistics, manufacturing, and retail.
- **Robotics & AI expansion**: Developing a new business line around training humanoid robots, positioning Instawork as a key partner for robotics companies needing real-world data and validation.
- **Product innovation**: Using AI to improve worker fit, reliability, and return rates; investing in automation and operational efficiency.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven impact**: "Your work at Instawork directly benefits thousands of businesses and millions of workers." The company emphasizes creating economic opportunities.
- **Rapid growth and strong investors**: Pre-IPO company backed by top-tier VCs (Benchmark, Spark, Greylock, Y Combinator) — offers potential for career growth and equity upside.
- **Rewarding problems**: Tackle challenging, high-velocity problems in AI, robotics, marketplace dynamics, and trust & safety.
- **Culture values** (from careers page): Bias for Action, Act Like an Owner, Always Be Learning, Empathy/Trust/Candor.
- **Benefits**: Medical/Dental/Vision insurance, 401K/PF contribution, FSA & Commuter Benefits, Flexible Time Off, Parental & Family Leave, Office & Phone Plan Reimbursement, Employee Referral Bonus, Catered Lunches, Pet Friendly Offices, Mental Health Benefits, Team Offsites.
- **Work model**: Hybrid / in-office hub locations in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, and Bengaluru; also remote-friendly for certain roles.

## Sources
1. [Instawork Careers Page](https://www.instawork.com/careers)
2. [Instawork Greenhouse Jobs Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/instawork)
3. [Instawork About Page](https://www.instawork.com/about)
4. [Instawork Homepage](https://www.instawork.com/)
5. [Instawork How It Works](https://www.instawork.com/how-it-works)

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