Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create, and exceed every day, Wrike brings everyone and all work into a single place to remove complexity, increase productivity, and free people up to focus on their most purposeful work.

Our vision: A world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together.

Location:

Fully remote in the United States (EST Timezone)

About the Role:

As Wrike continues to scale globally, we’re reimagining how People Operations delivers consistent, high-quality employee experiences while maintaining operational agility and compliance across regions.

We’re hiring a Senior People Operations Specialist (AMS) to support and execute core People Operations processes across our U.S. and Costa Rica workforce. This role sits at the center of day-to-day People Operations execution — ensuring employee processes are delivered accurately, efficiently, and compliantly across the employee lifecycle.

Team Dynamics:

As a hands-on individual contributor within a global People Operations model, you will partner closely with the Director, Global People Operations, Team Leads, and cross-functional stakeholders. From onboarding through offboarding, benefits administration through payroll inputs, and compliance-related processes through systems support, you will execute and coordinate core People Operations activities across jurisdictions while maintaining accuracy, responsiveness, and compliance.

This role is built for someone who thrives in a lean, fast-moving environment — balancing precision with empathy, operational rigor with thoughtful engagement, and autonomy with sound judgment. You’re comfortable working remotely, collaborating across time zones, and contributing meaningfully to a distributed global team.

Your Impact:

👥Employee Lifecycle Experience & Engagement

Execute and support employee lifecycle processes across the U.S. and Costa Rica workforce, ensuring operational accuracy, responsiveness, and compliance throughout the employee journey.
Manage day-to-day lifecycle administration and coordination, including onboarding, internal mobility, compensation changes, leave transitions, offboarding, terminations, and employee documentation.
Ensure lifecycle processes are completed accurately, timely, and with a strong employee service mindset.
Partner cross-functionally with HRBPs, Payroll, IT, Finance, and managers to coordinate smooth employee transitions and operational processes.
Support onboarding experiences, employee communications, and regional operational initiatives that contribute to a positive employee experience.
Identify operational inefficiencies and support process improvements that enhance consistency, documentation quality, and team efficiency.
Maintain organized and accurate employee records, documentation, and system updates across platforms.

✨Benefits, Leave & Wellness Programs

Administer and support benefits and leave programs across the U.S. and Costa Rica while ensuring alignment with local regulations, company policies, and operational requirements.
Support country-specific health, retirement, insurance, statutory leave, and wellness programs through day-to-day administration, vendor coordination, employee support, and process improvements.
Serve as a resource for employees navigating enrollments, life events, leave requests, and benefits-related questions.
Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders to support timely issue resolution and accurate administration.
Provide clear employee communication and support regarding benefits and leave programs.
Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, documentation, and consistency across benefits-related processes

⚙️HR Governance, Compliance & Risk Stewardship

Support compliance with applicable employment and workforce regulations across assigned jurisdictions while maintaining operational integrity and documentation standards.
Maintain alignment with employment, workforce, and data privacy requirements in both the U.S. and Costa Rica.
Support compliance-related operational processes, including background checks, policy acknowledgments, reporting requirements, and audit preparation.
Escalate compliance concerns, documentation gaps, or operational risks to appropriate stakeholders when identified.
Maintain organized documentation and records to support operational governance and audit readiness.
Partner cross-functionally to ensure people operations processes are compliant, sustainable, and operationally effective.

📝 Payroll Inputs

Support payroll accuracy by ensuring timely and accurate employee data updates and payroll inputs across systems.
Submit payroll inputs, including new hires, terminations, compensation updates, bonuses, and leave adjustments accurately and on time.
Ensure employee data changes are correctly reflected in HR systems prior to payroll processing deadlines.
Partner closely with Payroll and Finance to resolve discrepancies, validate changes, and support payroll processing timelines.
Maintain high standards of data accuracy and documentation integrity across systems and reporting.

📊Process Optimization, Systems & AI-Enabled Operations

Support operational efficiency by leveraging HR systems, automation, and AI-enabled tools to reduce manual work and improve service delivery.
Review operational workflows and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency, and employee support processes.
Utilize HR systems, automation, and AI-enabled tools to support case management, documentation, reporting, and employee self-service.
Utilize AI-enabled tools and automation to support documentation, reporting, case management, and employee support workflows.
Strengthen process documentation and standardization to support scalable and repeatable operations.
Maintain accurate operational data and reporting to support People Operations processes and business needs.

Your Qualifications:

Operational Depth

You have hands-on experience supporting employee lifecycle administration, benefits coordination, compliance processes, HR systems, and payroll inputs. You understand how operational workflows connect and recognize the importance of accuracy, responsiveness, and follow-through.

Execution-Oriented Operator

You are highly organized, detail-oriented, and execution-focused. You are comfortable managing recurring operational processes, balancing multiple priorities, and ensuring work is completed accurately and on time. You proactively follow through on tasks, communicate clearly, and escalate issues appropriately when needed.

AI-Embedded & Systems Mindset

You are comfortable using HR systems, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve efficiency, reduce manual administrative work, and support scalable service delivery.

Compliance & Risk Awareness

You operate with strong attention to detail and documentation discipline, understanding the importance of regulatory alignment, clean data, and accurate employee records across jurisdictions.

Cross-Functional & Distributed Collaboration

You collaborate effectively across HRBPs, Payroll, Finance, IT, vendors, and local leadership. You communicate clearly across time zones and maintain accountability in a distributed environment.

Standout Qualities:

You take pride in operational excellence and genuinely care about getting the details right — especially when those details impact employees’ pay, benefits, or overall experience.
You enjoy improving operational workflows and finding practical ways to simplify manual processes.
You are naturally curious about systems, automation, and AI-enabled tools that improve efficiency and employee support.
You thrive in a distributed, global environment and communicate proactively across teams and stakeholders.

What’s Next?

Initial Recruiting Screen - 30 Minutes
Hiring Manager - 45 Minutes
Cross Functional Panel - 45 Minutes
Culture Interview - 30 Minutes
SVP People - 30 Minutes

Why Join Wrike?

Flexible Time Off (FTO)
Company 401(k) Match
Parental Leave: 18 Weeks Maternity / 4 Week Paternity
2 Volunteer Days
Health Insurance (Employees + Dependents)
Disability (STD, LTD) & Life Insurance Plans
Working from Home Allowance ($40 / Monthly)
$500 Working from Home home office set-up Stipend

Your recruitment buddy will be Aziza Talhi, Lead Recruiter.

The range below reflects the base salary for this full-time position and applies to all U.S. locations, excluding benefits, discretionary bonuses, and other incentives. The final offer within this range will consider factors such as the role, seniority level, geographic location, and employment contract type. An individual’s work location, unique skills, experience, and relevant educational background will also influence the final offer. For tailored compensation details based on your preferred location, please discuss with your recruiter during the hiring process.

Total compensation pay range: $80,000 USD - $90,000 USD

Who Is Wrike And Our Culture

We’re a team of innovators and creators who solve the complex work problems of today and tomorrow.

Hybrid work mode

Wrike offers a flexible work model designed to support collaboration, connection, and high-impact teamwork. For employees based near our office hubs in Prague, Nicosia, Bangalore, and Rennes, we follow a hybrid approach with 2–3 days in the office each week. In the US, Costa Rica, Japan, Australia, Ireland, and Estonia, we offer a remote work model.

This approach helps us foster a strong collaborative culture, solve problems quickly, and work together to deliver meaningful business results.

Our persona

💡 Smart: We love what we do, and we’re great at it because this is our domain. Our combined knowledge in this space is unmatched.

💚 Dedicated: We get up every day focused on helping our customers win. We’re committed to helping our teammates win, too!

🤗 Approachable: We're friendly, easy to get along with, considerate, and helpful.

Our culture and Values

🤩 Customer-Focused

We care about our customers. We understand the customer journey, experience, and value derived from Wrike. Decision-making and action-taking are done with the customer in mind.

🤝 Collaborative

We work as one and win together, each bringing unique strengths that contribute to diversity of thought for better outcomes. Leveraging our own work management platform, we foster an environment of creative collaboration and shared achievement.

🎨 Creative

We strive to succeed through continuous innovation. It’s our pursuit of novel concepts that helped us create a market category. We continue to cultivate a workplace that fosters creative thinking as a means of transcending conventional boundaries and empowers us to break new ground to deliver extraordinary work management solutions.

💪 Committed

We believe in ownership at all levels of the organization, by owning workflows from start to finish. Each member of our team is an integral part of this commitment, establishing work as a platform for personal growth and transformation, as well as collective success and growth.

Check out our LinkedIn Life Page, Company culture page, Instagram, Wrike Engineering Team, Medium, Meetup.com, Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike.

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Vacatures

Senior People Operations Generalist (Americas)