People Operations

Build the data infrastructure that powers robots in the real world. Robotics is moving from research labs into production fleets across factories, warehouses, vehicles, defense systems, agriculture, logistics, and field deployments. As robots scale across the physical world, every failure, regression, edge case, and unexpected behavior becomes a data problem: what happened, when, on which robot, and why? Every robot, in every industry, requires the same core capabilities: to sense, understand, and act on multimodal data from the physical world. At Foxglove, we built the agentic data platform robotics and Physical AI teams use to answer those questions. We help robotics teams make vast quantities of robot data actionable, creating the data flywheel they need to develop, test, train, deploy, and operate robots with confidence. About the role This is the first dedicated People Operations hire at Foxglove. Today, HR operations, employment compliance, and people program execution all run through one person. As we scale through a period of significant headcount growth, we need someone to own the compliance and operational backbone of the people function so it can keep pace with the business. You will own the employment compliance surface that currently sits with our outside counsel and our VP of Talent, run people operations end to end, and be the steady operator who keeps onboarding, offboarding, leave, and employee relations running cleanly. This is a high-ownership role for someone who is comfortable building structure where little exists and who can operate without an HR director layered above them. About the team You will join Foxglove’s Talent function alongside Talent Acquisition, IT, and Workplace. As we scale toward roughly 100 employees across multiple US states and a growing international footprint, this function is building the structure to keep pace. You will partner closely with the VP of Talent, outside employment counsel, our benefits broker, and work cross-functionally with hiring managers and finance. What you’ll do Employment compliance - Multi-state wage and hour compliance across all jurisdictions where we employ workers, with primary depth in California and Washington and working knowledge in other states. This includes San Francisco local ordinances such as the Health Care Security Ordinance, Fair Chance Ordinance, and paid sick leave where applicable - Assist with drafting employee agreements and commission plans, bringing in our external legal firm only as needed - Worker classification (exempt vs. non-exempt, employee vs. contractor) against federal, DOL, and state standards - Pay transparency and pay data reporting obligations - Handbook and written policy maintenance, keeping policies legally current and internally consistent across jurisdictions - Partnering with outside counsel on escalations rather than defaulting every question to them Immigration and work authorization - I-9 completion, reverification, and retention compliance - Coordinating a light volume of employment-based immigration matters (TN, O-1A, E-3) with outside counsel, and tracking status, expiration, and reverification deadlines Leave and benefits administration - Administering federal and state leave programs (FMLA, CFRA, WA PFML, and other applicable state leaves) through our leave management platform, Cocoon - Leading annual open enrollment and managing day-to-day benefits administration, including qualifying life events and employee benefits questions - Supporting benefits compliance obligations alongside our broker, including ACA reporting, ERISA documentation, COBRA, and required notices People operations - Supporting HRIS administration and data integrity in Rippling: onboarding, offboarding, status changes, and reporting - Running and supporting accurate, timely multi-state payroll in Rippling, partnering with finance - Supporting compensation cycles and pay-band administration in Pave - Running onboarding and offboarding execu