Couchbase is hiring People Operations Specialist!!

Full Time
Bangalore
Posted 6 months ago

Every day we tackle new and exciting challenges to empower developers to build modern cloud, mobile, and edge applications that deliver a premium user experience. Couchbase delivers unmatched performance, scalability, flexibility and financial value across cloud, on premises, hybrid, mobile and edge deployments. The database market is undergoing a generational shift and is one of the largest market opportunities in enterprise software due to big trends like the need for digital transformation, acceleration to the cloud and innovation at the edge. Join Couchbase to be a part of a greater change. Here you’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow with some of the most innovative, passionate and humble individuals in the database industry.

Role Purpose

As Couchbase evolves its People Operations model, this role supports all aspects of the employee life cycle. The focus of this role is to provide People Operations assistance across the People & Workplace team functions that are mission critical to world class teams at Couchbase. This role will entail both transactional and programmatic work in delivering our People Team processes while also playing a part in revamping our processes and procedures. In this role, Specialists get exposure to all facets of a busy People & Workplace team and can lean into areas of personal interest.  

Responsibilities

This is a broad list of responsibilities that most team members share. Individual team members who have a particular interest or experience in one area may focus more on responsibilities pertaining to that. 

Core Area Responsibilities: 

  • Support greater People & Workplace team programs and initiatives by working cross-departmentally with Talent Acquisition, HR, Total Rewards, Talent Development, and Technology & Data teams. Examples include: immigration, benefits, merit reviews, annual compliance reporting, organizational reports, etc. 
  • Be resourceful in researching APAC regional employment law and compliance requirements. 
  • Provide assistance with international mobility including completion of necessary immigration documentation. 
  • Own the employee onboarding and offboarding processes end-to-end, including stewarding data integrity in our ATS & HRIS, maintaining candidate files, completing templates and coordinating orientations.
  • Assist Talent Acquisition in opening new requisitions, arranging candidate travel plans, drafting offer documents, and documenting TA processes as needed. 
  • Collaborate with Payroll & Benefits in new hire document collection, benefit program enrollment, changes, and addressing employee questions. 
  • Assist in scheduling and conducting new hire orientation sessions for new hires. 
  • Be a guardian for overall data integrity and employees record keeping, maintaining accurate records & documentation. Process ongoing employee data changes in ATS, HRIS and other people systems to ensure our people data is accurately maintained.
  • Ensure compliance with HR reporting and administration (Background checks, EEO, I-9, E-Verify, etc.).
  • Contribute towards operational excellence by identifying and recommending alternative methods for optimization and streamlining. 
  • Maintain and provide support in People Operations process documentation, improvements, system implementations and policy development.
  • Be the go-to person for employee questions and manage employee questions through Zendesk that are not answerable by our outsource partners. 
  • Ensure Zendesk tickets are allocated to the relevant teams and assist team members if overcapacity in one region or when other People Operations team members are out of the office.
  • Answers questions from applicants and employees relative to standard policies, benefits, hiring processes, etc.

Examples of Focus Area Responsibilities:  

  • (Talent Acquisition) Provide programmatic support to graduate and internship hiring initiatives, assist in process improvements & system updates. 
  • (Human Resources) Partner with People Partners on employee Changes/ Leave of Absence/ and Immigration cases, assist with HR policy and process documentation, liaise with Legal, assist with employee relations cases & trainings.
  • (Total Rewards) Liaise with Benefits in annual enrollment and employee benefits onboarding/ offboarding, assist with annual merit review cycle, provide support in creation of our job code hierarchy. 
  • (Talent Development) Assist with creation of Onboarding sessions & content, maintain updates to our company intranet page, and assist with DEI initiatives. 
  • (Technology & Data) Create Zendesk ticket reports analyzing where further systems or process improvements can be made, provide UKG Administrator system field & improvement updates, provide compliance audit support as a public facing company. 
  • (Workplace) Assist with office support where temporary service gaps may exist or for special events and projects.

Skills & Abilities

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management, Business Administration or related field (preferred). 
  • 2 years experience within the People Operations, HR Generalist, or Global Mobility space. 
  • Experience working with ATS, Payroll, or HR systems.
  • Knowledge of People & Workplace best practices and/or legal requirements is a plus. 
  • Documentation and process mindset (eager to ‘create structure’), with the ability to collaborate and strive for continuous improvement.
  • Willingness to help across the People & Workplace team in a variety of areas, while defining and leaning into your individual career growth objectives.
  • Exceptional attention to detail, problem solver and a highly organized do’er.
  • Strong communicator with a customer service mindset to support our world class team.
  • Professionalism in handling confidential employee information. 

Why Couchbase?

Modern customer experiences need a flexible cloud database platform that can power applications spanning from cloud to edge and everything in between. Couchbase’s mission is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and consume modern applications wherever they are. We have reimagined the database with our fast, flexible and affordable cloud database platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly build applications that deliver premium experiences to their customers– all with best-in-class price performance. More than 30% of the Fortune 100 trust Couchbase to power their modern applications and build innovative new ones. See our recent awards to learn why Couchbase is a great place to work.We are honored to be a part of the Best Places to Work Award for the Bay Area and the UK. Couchbase offers a total rewards approach to benefits  that recognizes the value you create here, so that you in turn may best serve yourself and your family. Some benefits include:

  • Generous Time Off Program – Flexibility to care for you and your family
  • Wellness Benefits – A variety of world class medical plans to choose from, along with dental, vision, life insurance, and employee assistance programs*
  • Financial Planning – RSU equity program*, ESPP program*, Retirement program* and Business Travel Insurance
  • Career Growth – Be valued, Create value approach
  • Fun Perks – A Monthly Lifestyle Spending Account credit, an ergonomic and comfortable in-office / WFH setup. Food & Snacks for in-office employees.
  • And much more!

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