\nOur Mission: \n\nTo capture the hearts and minds of millions of players across the world by creating unforgettable games powered by the best technology.\n\nAbout Us:\n\nPlayQ is a rapidly growing global entertainment and technology company delivering high-quality mobile titles and innovative game development solutions to a worldwide audience. Our games have been downloaded more than 60 million times across the globe, with millions of users playing every day! \n\nOur dedicated teams, based in downtown Santa Monica, CA, work together to craft the clever, visually stunning, and unforgettable experiences that our players love. Our emphasis on individual leadership means each team member has the opportunity to make a big impact, while our commitment to creative freedom gives them the ability to create whatever they can imagine. \n\nIt’s this mindset that has led us to develop our own IP, infuse games with rich storytelling, build our own development tools, and solve the deepest technical challenges - all in the name of disrupting the mobile gaming landscape.\n\nWhy you'll want to come to work:\n\nAs our Senior Manager, People Operations you’ll be responsible for our most valuable asset - our people. This opportunity calls for an innovative people and culture champion to work alongside our business leaders to develop a high-performing workplace. \n\nIn this role, you’ll work closely with the VP, People to create and implement a variety of key people programs and refine internal people processes and systems to enable our teams to do their best work. We’re seeking a true people expert, with proven success in a growing company, to strategically evolve our performance development, total rewards, organizational design and employee engagement programs.  As an ambassador for PlayQ culture, you’ll work closely with a variety of people across all departments and be the 'go to' person for building a great place to work. \n\nThis is an ideal position for a professional who wants to roll up their sleeves and get involved in all parts of the people function from operations to business partner work. We are looking for someone who is excited by  delivering impactful results and fostering cohesion for a global team. If you’re passionate about creating a meaningful work experience for our team, we’d love to hear from you! \n\nWhat you'll get to create:\n\n\n* Execute on all aspects of people operations within a comprehensive people strategy aligned with the PlayQ’s chartered path\n\n* Optimize key people programs including but not limited to: performance development, organizational planning, total rewards, and internal processes/communication\n\n* Work closely with the Director, Talent to onboard and retain top talent\n\n* Design and implement learning and development programs to enhance employee skills in line with evolving business objectives. \n\n* Provide proactive Business Partner support to managers and employees across the organization\n\n* Develop relationships as a trusted and reliable people resource for our team by effectively troubleshooting both people and operational issues \n\n* Leverage data to guide strategic decisions; proactively find ways to collect and utilize data \n\n* Own and enhance all people technology system usage; optimize technology for automation and efficiency whenever possible\n\n* Oversee all day-to-day people administration including immigration coordination, payroll and benefits administration, annual open enrollment, compliance, employee relations and other miscellaneous people processes\n\n* Own all aspects of employee onboarding and offboarding \n\n* Establish opportunities for meaningful team engagement by reimagining current company events, communication, activities and daily interactions  \n\n\n\n\nWhat you'll bring to the team: \n\n\n* Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.\n\n* 7-10+ years of HR/People Operations experience in a startup and/or mid-size organization\n\n* Strong Google Sheets or Excel skills\n\n* Interest in and resourcefulness around technology, especially HR platforms\n\n* Highly principled and trustworthy\n\n* Effective presentation skills and experience leading training programs \n\n* Experience successfully building, implementing and adopting people programs and initiatives\n\n* Experience working with a global team\n\n* Strong communicator, both written and verbal\n\n* Ability to establish strong relationships with people at all levels of the organization\n\n* Strong sense of integrity and confidentiality \n\n* Strikingly unique balance of excellent communication and time management skills coupled with an extreme attention to detail and sense of urgency\n\n\n\n\nBonus Points:\n\n\n* Experience using various people tools such as Rippling, Human Interest, 15Five and Greenhouse\n\n\n\n\nIf you gotten this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in PlayQ's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.\n\nWhat we can offer you:\n\n\n* Competitive compensation\n\n* Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, long term disability & pet insurance\n\n* Flexible time off\n\n* Unmatched learning opportunities and mission driven team\n\n* Advancement and mentorship opportunities\n\n* 401K plan with company match\n\n* Flexible Workplace: PlayQ’s workplace includes a combination of both in-office, hybrid and remote roles. Our flexible approach to the workplace experience, internal comms, and tech stack promote collaboration, communication, and camaraderie!\n\n* Brand new creative office space equipped with tons of natural light, communal areas for collaboration and free parking\n\n* Walking distance to restaurants, coffee shops, and the metro\n\n* Stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages\n\n* Monthly team building events and cross departmental lunches\n\n* Help build and support awesome GAMES. For a living! Who doesn't love games?\n\n\n\n\nAt PlayQ, we leverage competitive benchmarking data when setting each role’s base pay range. Individual base salary will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, scope of role, business need and geographic location.\n\nThe estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.\n\n$100,000-$150,000 USD\n\nAdditional information:\n\n\n* In-office location: Santa Monica, CA\n\n* This role is open to remote employees located in select US states including California, Washington, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and Georgia.\n\n* This role is offered as a full time position.\n\n\n\n\nInterested? Please get in touch! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Mobile, Senior and Excel jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $95,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco, California, United States

\nOur Mission: \n\nTo capture the hearts and minds of millions of players across the world by creating unforgettable games powered by the best technology.\n\nAbout Us:\n\nPlayQ is a rapidly growing global entertainment and technology company delivering high-quality mobile titles and innovative game development solutions to a worldwide audience. Our games have been downloaded more than 60 million times across the globe, with millions of users playing every day! \n\nOur dedicated teams, based in downtown Santa Monica, CA, work together to craft the clever, visually stunning, and unforgettable experiences that our players love. Our emphasis on individual leadership means each team member has the opportunity to make a big impact, while our commitment to creative freedom gives them the ability to create whatever they can imagine. \n\nIt’s this mindset that has led us to develop our own IP, infuse games with rich storytelling, build our own development tools, and solve the deepest technical challenges - all in the name of disrupting the mobile gaming landscape.\n\nWhy you'll want to come to work:\n\nAs our Senior Manager, People Operations you’ll be responsible for our most valuable asset - our people. This opportunity calls for an innovative people and culture champion to work alongside our business leaders to develop a high-performing workplace. \n\nIn this role, you’ll work closely with the VP, People to create and implement a variety of key people programs and refine internal people processes and systems to enable our teams to do their best work. We’re seeking a true people expert, with proven success in a growing company, to strategically evolve our performance development, total rewards, organizational design and employee engagement programs.  As an ambassador for PlayQ culture, you’ll work closely with a variety of people across all departments and be the 'go to' person for building a great place to work. \n\nThis is an ideal position for a professional who wants to roll up their sleeves and get involved in all parts of the people function from operations to business partner work. We are looking for someone who is excited by  delivering impactful results and fostering cohesion for a global team. If you’re passionate about creating a meaningful work experience for our team, we’d love to hear from you! \n\nWhat you'll get to create:\n\n\n* Execute on all aspects of people operations within a comprehensive people strategy aligned with the PlayQ’s chartered path\n\n* Optimize key people programs including but not limited to: performance development, organizational planning, total rewards, and internal processes/communication\n\n* Work closely with the Director, Talent to onboard and retain top talent\n\n* Design and implement learning and development programs to enhance employee skills in line with evolving business objectives. \n\n* Provide proactive Business Partner support to managers and employees across the organization\n\n* Develop relationships as a trusted and reliable people resource for our team by effectively troubleshooting both people and operational issues \n\n* Leverage data to guide strategic decisions; proactively find ways to collect and utilize data \n\n* Own and enhance all people technology system usage; optimize technology for automation and efficiency whenever possible\n\n* Oversee all day-to-day people administration including immigration coordination, payroll and benefits administration, annual open enrollment, compliance, employee relations and other miscellaneous people processes\n\n* Own all aspects of employee onboarding and offboarding \n\n* Establish opportunities for meaningful team engagement by reimagining current company events, communication, activities and daily interactions  \n\n\n\n\nWhat you'll bring to the team: \n\n\n* Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.\n\n* 7-10+ years of HR/People Operations experience in a startup and/or mid-size organization\n\n* Strong Google Sheets or Excel skills\n\n* Interest in and resourcefulness around technology, especially HR platforms\n\n* Highly principled and trustworthy\n\n* Effective presentation skills and experience leading training programs \n\n* Experience successfully building, implementing and adopting people programs and initiatives\n\n* Experience working with a global team\n\n* Strong communicator, both written and verbal\n\n* Ability to establish strong relationships with people at all levels of the organization\n\n* Strong sense of integrity and confidentiality \n\n* Strikingly unique balance of excellent communication and time management skills coupled with an extreme attention to detail and sense of urgency\n\n\n\n\nBonus Points:\n\n\n* Experience using various people tools such as Rippling, Human Interest, 15Five and Greenhouse\n\n\n\n\nIf you gotten this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in PlayQ's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.\n\nWhat we can offer you:\n\n\n* Competitive compensation\n\n* Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, long term disability & pet insurance\n\n* Flexible time off\n\n* Unmatched learning opportunities and mission driven team\n\n* Advancement and mentorship opportunities\n\n* 401K plan with company match\n\n* Flexible Workplace: PlayQ’s workplace includes a combination of both in-office, hybrid and remote roles. Our flexible approach to the workplace experience, internal comms, and tech stack promote collaboration, communication, and camaraderie!\n\n* Brand new creative office space equipped with tons of natural light, communal areas for collaboration and free parking\n\n* Walking distance to restaurants, coffee shops, and the metro\n\n* Stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages\n\n* Monthly team building events and cross departmental lunches\n\n* Help build and support awesome GAMES. For a living! Who doesn't love games?\n\n\n\n\nAt PlayQ, we leverage competitive benchmarking data when setting each role’s base pay range. Individual base salary will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, scope of role, business need and geographic location.\n\nThe estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.\n\n$100,000-$150,000 USD\n\nAdditional information:\n\n\n* In-office location: Santa Monica, CA\n\n* This role is open to remote employees located in select US states including California, Washington, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and Georgia.\n\n* This role is offered as a full time position.\n\n\n\n\nInterested? Please get in touch! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Mobile, Senior and Excel jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $95,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nAustin, Texas, United States

\nAs a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent.  We’re searching for innovators  who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. \n\n\nPERKS & BENEFITS\nUnlimited Vacation, Paid Sick Days & Holidays\n100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan Base Plan\nLife Insurance, 401k, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Benefits & More\nCatered Lunches & Well-stocked Kitchens\nYoga & Wellness Activities\nHappy Hours\nCompany Events\nDog Friendly\n\n\nThe HRIS specialist is an expert in human resources management systems that is responsible for  supporting and maintaining the organization's HRIS applications and modules and collecting data to analyze it and  improve HR strategies and processes. This position implements ways to increase the functional productivity and workflow of the HR department by transforming data and analysis into insights and recommendations to inform the strategic direction of the People strategy. This role supports special projects and strategic initiatives related to HRIS. The HRIS specialist will also participate in the definition and implementation of the HRIS roadmap.\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES \n* Oversees and maintains optimal function of the HRIS, which may include installation, customization, development, maintenance, and upgrade to applications, systems, and modules.\n* Provides technical support, troubleshooting, and guidance to HRIS users.\n* Collaborates with executive leadership and HR staff to identify system improvements and enhancements; recommends and implements solutions.\n* Manages permissions, access, personalization, and similar system operations and settings for HRIS users.\n* Programs custom functions and documentation such as automated queries, filters, macros, and reports.\n* Compiles or assists with the acquisition of complex data reports, summaries, and logs for senior executives and HR staff.\n* Ensures system compliance with data security and privacy requirements.\n* Maintains knowledge of trends and developments in HRIS providers, vendors, and technology.\n* Partner with other leaders to support deliverables for special projects related to People Strategy (e.g., diversity, retention, etc.)\n*  Ensure best practices are followed for data capture and tracking\n*  Maintain unwavering confidentially with HR information\n\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.\n* Familiarity with human resource policies and procedures to ensure the HRIS meets organizational needs and goals.\n* Ability to keep information confidential.\n* Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.\n* Thorough understanding of all areas of information systems.\n* Ability to manage several projects simultaneously\n* Advanced PPT skills\n* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal\n* Ability to develop strategic recommendations\n* Team oriented: strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively with all stakeholders\n* Professional and demonstrates integrity at all times\n\n\n\nEXPERIENCE TO BRING \n* 5+ years of experience in HRIS roles\n* 4+ years of directly related human resource experience; OR Any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.\n* Must be results driven and utilize knowledge to meet or exceed KPIs and goals.\n* Demonstrated experience with Dayforce HCM, specifically leading implementations and Interfaces with other systems.\n* Must have proven experience in analytical and problem-solving skills.\n* Basic knowledge of US Payroll and Benefits\n\n\n\n\n\nIn compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation for this role.  The range listed is just one component of Jam City's total compensation package for employees, which may also include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled.  Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, certifications, location, business needs, or market demands. This range is based on a full-time position. This range may be modified in the future. In addition, Jam City provides a variety of benefits to employees, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan, life, disability, and accident insurance.  Pay Range: $91,000— $136,00 salary per year.\n\n\nCHECK OUT LIFE AS A JAM CITIZEN:\n- Company news and events on our LinkedIn\n- Company Blog\n- Employee Feedback on our Comparably page\n- Find videos on our teams and games on our Youtube\n\n\nOUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION\nWe believe in creating games that unite people across the world and that showcase our commitment to providing an environment that is both inclusive and diverse for our players and employees. We strive to create a workforce that is reflective of our global player community as we know that we are stronger and better when we play together. To help promote an inclusive culture, we celebrate the visible and invisible diversity of our Jam Citizens through initiatives including Employee Resource Groups, cultural events, trainings, speaker series, and more. \n\n\nJam City is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, religion, ethnicity, marital, or domestic partnerships status, disability, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws. Our management is committed to following this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruiting, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.\n\n\nABOUT JAM CITY\nJam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience. \n\n\nLed by CEO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date. \n\n\nThe company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018. \n\n\nJam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Payroll, Education, Microsoft, Mobile and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $90,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nCulver City, CA