ANNA (Allied Network for Neurodevelopmental Advancement) is a mission-driven organization that provides ABA services to young autistic children (under the age of 6) and their families using a neurodiversity-affirming, Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention (NDBI) approach. and are looking for an exceptional People Operations builder to construct the people engine behind our growth.

The People Operations

Manager will build and run the operational backbone of the employee experience across ANNA’s US markets — onboarding workflows, payroll accuracy, multi-state compliance, employee relations, performance infrastructure, and workforce reporting. We are scaling across states, which means the compliance calendar, the policy library, the dashboards, and the ER processes largely remain to be created — you will create them, run them, and improve them simultaneously. This is deliberately a sleeves-rolled-up role: you’ll be in the payroll run, the I-9 file, and the compliance tracker yourself, and that’s by design. You’ll own US employment infrastructure end to end from Canada: state registrations, payroll cycles in Rippling, credential and I-9 compliance for a frontline clinical workforce, and the leave-law and classification decisions that keep a multi-state healthcare employer clean. ANNA is an AI-native company, and we expect People Operations to be built that way — AI-assisted policy drafting, automated compliance monitoring, agentic onboarding workflows. You’ll build people systems that most HR teams twice our size are still waiting on. Strong performance in this seat has a defined growth path to Senior People Operations Manager. Payroll runs, compliance deadlines, ER cases, onboarding cohorts,



and executive reporting all move on their own clocks. Payroll &

• HRIS Operations Own end-to-end US payroll execution in Rippling across multiple states, including deductions, adjustments, and off-cycle runs, with a zero-defect standard Serve as system owner for the HRIS — configuration, workflow automation, data integrity, and integrations with ANNA’s broader stack Manage benefits administration operations in partnership with brokers and carriers Compliance &

• Risk Build and run the multi-state compliance calendar: state registrations, wage and hour requirements, leave laws, posting requirements, and healthcare-specific credentialing Own I-9 and work-authorization compliance and the credential-expiration monitoring system for clinical staff Maintain the policy library and employee handbook across states, using AI-assisted drafting and review Design and run onboarding workflows that get new clinical and corporate hires productive quick — measured in hours, with automation carrying the repetitive load Own offboarding, transfers, and lifecycle changes with clean documentation and system hygiene Employee Relations &

• Performance Infrastructure Run ER casework end to end under US employment law — documentation, investigation support, performance improvement plans, and terminations — in partnership with leadership Build ANNA’s performance management infrastructure: review cycles,



calibration tooling, and the reporting behind them 4–6+ years in People Operations or HR operations, including time as an early People hire at a high-growth startup or scale-up ~ Hands-on ownership of US employment infrastructure: multi-state payroll, state registrations, I-9 compliance, FLSA classification, and leave-law administration ~ Demonstrated AI fluency through real work product — automated workflows, AI-assisted documentation systems, or reporting builds you created yourself ~ Ability to work US Eastern business hours ~ Experience supporting a frontline, multi-site, or healthcare workforce (shift schedules, credential tracking, high-volume hiring) Background at an EOR, PEO, or payroll provider serving US clients Experience implementing or migrating an HRIS or payroll platform yourself You started somewhere structured — a payroll bureau, an EOR, people advisory — and it gave you zero-defect instincts

• You talk about your work in artifacts and numbers: the compliance calendar you built, the payroll migration you ran solo, the error rate you drove to zero. CAD $95,000 – $135,000 Full-time engagement through a Contractor of Record in Canada Paid time off and holidays

• At ANNA, we are working to transform autism care by combining rigorous clinical training, compassionate family-centered practice, and neurodiversity-affirming approaches. Our NDBI model supports each child’s strengths through play-based, developmentally informed care.

As People Operations

Manager, you will build the systems that let our clinical teams focus entirely on children and families. Remote, Canada-based, full-time US Eastern hours.

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