People Operations Specialist

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined. In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens. Our People team is looking for a People Operations Specialist (France EMEA) who will own People Operations in France EMEA while driving improvements through systems, automation, and data. This role sits at the intersection of People Operations, People Systems, and employee support, with primary ownership of managing and responding to People Support Help Desk tickets. The core focus is delivering timely, high-quality responses to employee requests, ensuring a strong day-to-day support experience. Building on those insights, you will optimize employee lifecycle processes, enhance help desk operations, and reduce manual work through improved system design and integrations - driving more scalable and efficient ways of working over time. The ideal candidate has experience working with global, distributed teams and is comfortable operating across both HR and technical domains. You should be able to manage day-to-day operations while also identifying opportunities to improve workflows, implement automation, and strengthen data integrity across systems. As a team member we are looking for someone who embodies our core values: someone with grit that the team can absolutely trust, who genuinely cares about our people, and who acts with candor and humility. Collaborating with a global team, you will be a strong communicator, empathetic and humble and comfortable with the unknown. We can guarantee a career journey that is filled with change and growth as part of being a core member of a global and evolving company. YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF: France EMEA People Operations Own end-to-end People Operations for France EMEA, including onboarding, offboarding, employee data changes, and documentation Ensure compliance with French labor law and the Syntec collective bargaining agreement (CBA), while maintaining awareness of broader EMEA requirements Manage benefits and leave processes across EMEA, for example: congés payés, RTT, sick leave, parental leave, etc. Act as a primary point of contact for employees across France EMEA Identify inefficiencies in France EMEA processes and apply scalable solutions People Systems Automation Own and optimize People systems supporting France and EMEA (HRIS, ticketing, workflows, integrations) Support the improvement and scale the People Support Help Desk, building on existing foundations Troubleshoot system issues and help implement integrations (APIs, SFTPs) impacting HR data and processes Drive automation to reduce manual work, prioritizing France while enabling broader EMEA scalability Partner with global teams to align local processes with scalable system design Data Integrity Reporting Ensure accuracy of employee data across France and EMEA through audits and system controls Build and maintain reporting on headcount, attrition, and operational metrics Use data to identify process gaps and recommend improvements Process Improvement Global Alignment Redesign processes, creating scalable solutions to where applicable Document workflows and enable self-service Collaborate with global People team members to standardize practices Partner closely with Compliance on complex regulatory topics while owning day-to-day execution WHAT YOU BRING: 3+ years of HR / People Operations experience in France Strong knowledge of French labor law and Syntec CBA (required) Exposure to EMEA HR operations is ... (truncated, view full listing at source)