About Volta
Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.
About The Role
The Senior People Operations Specialist is a key member of Volta's People Operations team, responsible for delivering a seamless, compliant and high-quality employee experience across the entire employee lifecycle. Reporting to the Head of People Operations, this hands-on role ensures the smooth execution of hiring, onboarding, employee changes, leave management, payroll administration and offboarding for a rapidly growing international workforce.
We are looking for an experienced People Operations professional who understands the complexities of supporting a global workforce, thrives in a fast-paced scaling environment, and is passionate about building operational excellence.
Alongside delivering day-to-day People Operations, you will identify opportunities to simplify and automate processes, document scalable ways of working, strengthen compliance and controls, and help build a world-class People Operations function capable of supporting Volta's continued international growth.
What You Will Be Doing
Deliver the operational execution of the end-to-end employee lifecycle across all jurisdictions, including offers, contracts, onboarding, employee changes, family leave, absence, probation, promotions and offboarding
Prepare high-quality employment documentation, including contracts, contract amendments, side letters and termination documentation, using approved templates and escalating complex or non-standard cases
Coordinate global immigration and right-to-work processes, including maintaining records required to meet UK Sponsor License obligations and supporting visa compliance across other jurisdictions
Act as the first point of contact for employees and managers on People Operations policies, processes, documentation and employment matters, resolving queries independently and escalating complex cases
Maintain a strong working knowledge of employment legislation and statutory requirements across the countries in which Volta operates, ensuring People processes and documentation remain compliant
Manage the operational delivery of Employer of Record (EOR) and Professional Employer Organization (PEO) arrangements, ensuring providers deliver accurate, compliant employment documentation and processes
Ensure People data is processed in accordance with UK GDPR and equivalent international privacy legislation, including data retention, access requests and data minimization
Act as the day-to-day administrator of Deel (HRIS), maintaining the accuracy and integrity of employee records, compensation, organizational structures and employment documentation
Manage data flows between Deel, Ashby, Carta, payroll providers and other People systems, and produce accurate People reporting including headcount, attrition, diversity, absence and turnover
Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize and automate People Operations processes, documenting standard operating procedures to embed operational knowledge within the team
What You Bring
Substantial people operations or HR operations experience, including a period in a scaling organization where process had to be built rather than followed
Demonstrable multi-jurisdictional experience running lifecycle operations and employment documentation across several countries, ideally spanning both Europe and North America
Strong working knowledge of people operations best practice: lifecycle process design, documentation standards, service levels, data hygiene and controls
Working knowledge of UK employment law and right-to-work requirements, and the judgement to recognize when a local rule elsewhere overrides the UK default
Sound understanding of data protection in an HR context under UK GDPR
Excellent attention to detail and strong spreadsheet and data skills
Absolute discretion with confidential and sensitive information
Comfortable with ambiguity and volume, and able to prioritize without close supervision
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What We Offer
At Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of.
As a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.
Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary
Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success
Retirement/pension contributions
Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits
Generous number of vacation days each year
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity
Volta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.
Accessibility
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