<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This position is with <a class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://www.manifest.inc/about-us" target="_blank" data-token-index="1"><span class="link-annotation-unknown-block-id--574351288">Manifest Global</span></a>, which also includes trailblazer brands such as Cialfo, Explore, BridgeU, FlowAI, Kaaiser and Edugo.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What This Role Is</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Talent Operations touches the entire distance between the day someone accepts an offer and the day they eventually leave, onboarding, payroll, policy, workplace, travel, global mobility, the data and systems that hold all of it together. Most companies split this work across several dedicated teams. Manifest asks a small, sharp team to hold all of it at a standard that doesn't slip, and increasingly, to run it on AI and automation as the default way of working, not a talking point bolted onto an old process.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This matters beyond keeping the trains running. Talent Operations is the function every employee touches constantly and every executive assumes just works, until it doesn't. And for a company that grows partly through acquisition, this function is where a good deal quietly becomes a bad one or a genuinely smooth integration, because onboarding, payroll, and systems migration are where new employees actually experience whether the acquisition was handled with care.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This role owns a real slice of that map, allocated as you join, and is built for someone who can move fluidly across it rather than specializing narrowly in one lane. You bring data and AI-native tools to bear on operational work that most companies still run manually, which is exactly what lets a team this size hold a scope this wide.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You own making the operational backbone of the employee experience run the way Manifest's own product does: systemized, data-informed, and genuinely good.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What Makes This Role Different</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Most Talent Operations roles let you go deep in one lane and stay there, payroll people stay in payroll, onboarding people stay in onboarding. This one deliberately doesn't. You're a true generalist across the full employee lifecycle, which means a faster learning curve, far more exposure than a specialist track ever offers, and real involvement in acquisition integration work most people in this function don't get near until much later in their careers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Manifest ecosystem means your generalist range gets used across five brands and multiple geographies, not one company's steady-state operations. Every acquisition, every new market, every policy that has to work across jurisdictions is a chance to actually use the breadth you bring, not a complication to work around.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What You Own</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Employee Lifecycle Operations</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Own onboarding and offboarding end to end, making both feel deliberate rather than administrative</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Own employee contract management with the accuracy and care that a growing, multi-country team requires</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Build the muscle memory that makes lifecycle transitions consistent regardless of which brand or market someone sits in</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Policies, Compliance, and Rewards</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Own policy design and compliance across every jurisdiction Manifest operates in, treating this as a genuine standard, not a formality</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Partner on compensation, benefits, and payroll accuracy, understanding that this is the part of the employee experience with zero tolerance for error</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Own rewards and recognition