We build AI voice agents for small and medium-sized businesses so they never miss a call and can focus on the work they actually love.

Our AI handles every call automatically. But voice is just the beginning. Our vision: to build the world's first fully automated CRM.

8,000+ customers. >€5M ARR. ~30% monthly growth. Target until EOY: €30M.

We live ownership: you own your work end-to-end. No politics, few meetings, direct feedback.

Your Role

You own everything after a candidate signs, from contracts through offboarding, and automate as much of it as possible. We are looking for someone to build the structural backbone to enable rapid scaling.

- Contracts & onboarding: Manage employment contracts for all employees (direct and indirect employment), organize equipment, accounts, workspaces, and support relocation of international colleagues.
- HR tooling & automation: introduce and own an HRIS tool, automate workflows across systems.
- Payroll: Organize and own internal payroll processes, including variable compensation calculation of all sales teams.
- Compliance & people legal: Support international hiring (EU and non-EU), time-tracking, collective agreements, international taxation topics, etc.
- Compensation: Manage and monitor compensation bands across teams/countries.




- Events & culture: Organize internal and external events (hackathons, off-sites, etc.)
- Offboarding: Manage offboarding of employees.
- Later, people development: Design feedback cycles, L&D;, career development (e.g. SDR academy).

What to Expect

- Solo, end-to-end ownership of everything people operations.
- Hands-on operational work to build the foundation for automation/scaling.
- Direct impact: your work has immediate influence on the culture of fonio.
- Flat hierarchies: close collaboration across departments.

What You Bring

- 3+ year of People Ops, HR, or Operations experience, ideally startup or scale-up.
- Knowledge about Spanish labor law, payroll, and collective agreements
- Structured, hands-on working style.
- AI and automation/workflow skills.
- People-first, low ego. You thrive under intensity.
- Strong English skills.

What We Offer

- €65,000 to €80,000 + Equity

- Relocation support

- Daily lunch and dinner

- Equipment of your choice
- Regular team off-sites
- On-site in Barcelona, working directly with the core-team

Hiring Process

1. 20 min intro call
2. 30 min skill interview
3. 20 min culture call

📌 People Operations Manager (Spain) (Barcelona)
🏢 fonio
📍 Barcelona