People Operations Specialist
Varda Space · HR & Recruiting
- Where
- El Segundo, California, United States
- Posted
- Sep 3
Low Earth orbit is open for business. Varda is accelerating the development of commercial space infrastructure, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules. Varda’s W-Series vehicles are built, designed, and operated by Varda in-house, including the pharmaceutical processing payloads, the capsules, the C-PICA heat shields, and the satellite buses.
From life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optics, there is a world of products used on Earth today that can only be manufactured in space. Varda is accelerating innovation in the orbital economy by creating both the products and infrastructure needed so space can directly benefit life on Earth.
What you'd do
- Coordinate the new hire onboarding process from accepted offer through the employee’s first-day experience, ensuring all required documentation, systems access, communications, and internal coordination are completed.
- Serve as a key point of contact for new hires, helping create an organized, welcoming, and consistent onboarding experience.
- Ensure employee changes are accurately documented and communicated to payroll, benefits, IT, managers, and other appropriate partners in a timely manner.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records, personnel files, organizational information, and HRIS data.
- Support employee offboarding, including coordinating required documentation, internal notifications, system access changes, return of company property, and final-day logistics.
- Monitor People Operations workflows and follow up with employees and managers to ensure required forms, approvals, and information are completed on time.
- Respond to routine employee questions and help connect employees with the appropriate People team member or resource when additional support is needed.
- Support employee events, recognition programs, communications, engagement activities, and other People initiatives.
- Partner across Recruiting, People Operations, Finance, IT, Facilities, Hospitality, and Administration to ensure employee-related processes are coordinated and executed smoothly.
- Provide general administrative and project support to the People team, including special projects and evolving priorities as the organization grows.
What they want
- Help coordinate the employee shuttle service, including schedules, communications, feedback, and day-to-day issues until hospitality team is built out.
- Help ensure employees have seamless, best-in-class workplace experience.
- 3+ years of HR, recruiting coordination, People Operations, or administrative experience.
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail and follow-through.
- Strong communication and customer-service skills.
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
- High discretion when handling confidential employee information.
- Proactive, resourceful, and willing to jump in where needed.
- Comfortable working onsite and being a visible, approachable member of the People team.
- Fully stocked kitchen with lunch provided daily and dinner provided twice weekly
What you get
- Pay range: $30.00/hr - $43.00/hr
- This role is on-site in El Segundo, CA
- Leveling and base salary is determined by job-related skills, education level, experience level, and job performance
- You will be eligible for incentives in the form of stock options and/or long-term cash awards