Senior People Operations Specialist

About this role

The Role:

We are hiring a Senior HR Operations Specialist to strengthen employee-lifecycle delivery, global leave and benefits operations, HRIS data quality, controls, reporting, and continuous improvement. This role combines hands-on operational ownership with the ability to redesign workflows, remove duplicate work, and implement practical automation across HR and partner systems.

The successful candidate will be equally comfortable resolving a complex employee transaction, diagnosing a data issue, coordinating a cross-functional process, and converting recurring manual work into a controlled, measurable workflow.

Responsibilities:

• Manage complex onboarding, job changes, transfers, exits, and related employee-lifecycle processes across jurisdictions.
• Maintain accurate HRIS records and lead data-quality audits, reconciliations, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Design and improve request, approval, notification, document-generation, and system-integration workflows.
• Manage global leave and benefits operations.
• Build operational dashboards and exception reporting.
• Own compliance reporting and tracking activities.
• Partner with IT, Legal, Finance, Payroll, Total Rewards, PBPs, managers, and vendors.
• Own the HR operations optimization pipeline.

Requirements:

• Significant HR operations experience.
• Strong HRIS expertise; ADP preferred.
• Demonstrated success simplifying or automating processes.
• Working knowledge of global leave administration and benefits operations.
• Advanced Excel and reporting skills; Power BI valued.
• Experience with Workato, Power Automate, ServiceNow, APIs, or similar.
• Strong project management and communication skills.
• Service mindset and employee support focus

Assets:

• Experience managing compliance calendars, audits, filings, and remediation tracking.
• Experience creating knowledge bases, playbooks, training materials, and self-service resources.
• While being based in the Denve...