People Experience Associate

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Responsibilities

• Primary responder to people operations email and Slack channel to ensure extraordinary customer service to team members and leaders at GitLab.
• Administer and coordinate all onboarding tasks and provide assistance as needed.
• Administer and coordinate all offboarding tasks and provide assistance as needed.
• Administer anniversary gifts.
• Work closely with People Operations and broader People team to implement specific People Operations processes and transaction.
• Proactively identify process inefficiencies and inconsistencies and collaborate towards an improved and more productive process that improves the team member and/or manager’s experience.
• Announcing changes and improvements on the Company Call and related slack channels.
• Use monthly Onboarding NPS survey to report on results from 30 day Onboarding survey for iterations and ideas on improving onboarding for users.
• Administering all transition issues for internal promotions or laterel transfers. Collaborote with the People Analyst team to keep improving the work-flow.
• Handle queries in slack and email relating to different entities and countries.
• Administration of Company communication (company calls, group conversations and AMA's)
• Foster collaborative working relationship with the CES team to ensure a new hire has a positive onboarding experience. Escalate any concerns to Senior People Experience Associate.
• Complete ad-hoc projects, reporting, and tasks.

Requirements

• The ability to work autonomously and to drive your own performance & development is important in this role.
• Prior extensive experience in a HR or People Operations role.
• Clear understanding of HR laws in one or multiple countries where GitLab is active.
• Willingness to work odd hours when needed (for example, to call an embassy in a different continent).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional customer service skills.
• Strong team player who can jump in and support the team on a variety of topics and tasks.
• Enthusiasm for and broad experience with software tools.
• Proven experience quickly learning new software tools.
• Willing to work with git and GitLab whenever possible.
• Willing to make People Operations as open and transparent as possible.
• Proven organizational skills with high attention to detail and the ability to prioritize.
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• The ability to work in a fast paced environment with strong attention to detail is essential.
• High sense of urgency and accuracy.
• Bachelor's degree or 2 years related experience.
• Experience at a growth-stage tech company is preferred.
• Ability to use GitLab

Levels

People Experience Coordinator

• Review contract to ensure signed and PIAA agreement - escalate information as required.
• Audit referral bonus process.
• Announcing changes and improvements on the Company Call and related slack channels.
• Flowers and gift ordering.
• Process all employment confirmation, reference, visa and mortgage letters.
• Audit offboarding issues weekly, to ensure People Group tasks were completed.
• Business card & travel system administration.
• Onboarding Support: New hire invites on team calendars, new hire swag administration and adding new hire's to GitLab Unfiltered YouTube channel.
• Build understanding of GitLab employment practices and provide support as required.
• Manage the Team Meetings calendar.
• Complete ad-hoc projects, reporting, and tasks.

Senior People Experience Associate

• Support the People Operations Associate with all people operations emails and Slack channel to ensure extraordinary customer service to team members and leaders at GitLab.
• Administer anniversary gifts and audit quarterly for accuracy.
• Escalate any concerns from team members and assist in moving blocks.
• Continiously review feedback accross email, slack and in calls, and partner with the People Experience Associate to continiously improve the onboarding experience.
• Review and provide monthly report on results from 30 day Onboarding survey.
• Administer and coordinate all onboarding tasks and provide assistance as needed.
• Administer and coordinate all offboarding tasks and provide assistance as needed.
• Administer all transition Issues for internal promotions or laterel transfers.
• Partnering with CES and Business Partner to handle more urgent onboarding or offboarding requests to ensure new hire's can attend various events or in cases when it is unusually urgent.
• Handle queries in slack and email relating to different entities and countries.
• Manage the Team Meetings calendar.
• Foster collaborative working relationship with the CES team to ensure a new hire has a positive onboarding experience.
• Collaborate closely with the People Experience Associate and Team Lead to ensure onboarding, offboarding and transition issues can scale with the organisational growth.
• Complete ad-hoc projects, reporting, and tasks.

Team Lead People Experience

• Coach and mentor People Experience team to effectively represent GitLab's culture and values in all team member interactions
• Bi-weekly People Experience Team meeting to calibrate on weekly priorities.
• Continually audit and monitor compliance with policies and procedures.
• Address any gaps and escalate to Manager, People Operations where required.
• Drive continued automation and efficiency to enhance the employee experience and maintain our efficiency value.
• Announcing changes and improvements on the Company Call and related slack channels.
• Driving a positive team member experience throughout their lifecycle with GitLab.
• Partner with different teams to ensure a team member is fully offboarded.
• Continually audit offboarding process, identify gaps and address.
• Improve transition issues and partner with L&D to implement training.
• Partner with all teams and hiring managers to ensure a team member is fully onboarded.
• Continually audit onboarding process, identify gaps and address through Issue board.
• Quarterly review of 30 day Onboarding survey.
• Support team on escalated queries / issues.
• Complete ad-hoc projects, reporting, and tasks.

Performance Indicators

Primary performance indicators for this role:

• Onboarding TSAT > 4
• Onboarding task completion < X (TBD)

Hiring Process

• Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with one of our recruiters
• Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a 45 minute interview with our People Operations Manager
• After that, candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute interview with members of the People Operations and People Partner teams
• After that, candidates will be invited to interview with the Director of People Operations
• Finally, our CPO may choose to conduct a final interview

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Avoid the confidence gap; you do not have to match all the listed requirements exactly to apply. Our hiring process is described in more detail in our hiring handbook.

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