Manager, People Systems and Automation

About the role

Cohere is scaling rapidly and needs a People Systems and Automation Manager to redesign and automate its People processes, reducing manual effort and supporting growth.

Key responsibilities

• Design, map, and redesign People processes before automating them.
• Build and maintain workflows across Rippling, Slack, Notion and other HR tools.
• Own the end‑to‑end employee lifecycle, including joiners, movers and leavers.
• Eliminate manual handling by creating automations that reduce human error.
• Document SOPs, runbooks and ensure maintainability of all solutions.

Required profile

• Experience building People Ops/HR systems in fast‑growing companies.
• Hands‑on involvement in an HRIS implementation or migration.
• Ability to design workflows, understand triggers, conditions and failure modes.
• Comfort operating across multiple countries, entities and contractor populations.

Required skills

• Rippling
• APIs
• Webhooks
• Integration tooling

What we offer

• Weekly lunch stipend of $75.
• Full health, dental and mental‑health benefits.
• RRSP matching, 401(k) and pension scheme.
• 100 % parental‑leave top‑up for up to 6 months.
• 6 weeks paid vacation and travel budget for office visits.
• Home‑office stipend of $500 and co‑working benefit.