Adaptyv Startup Operations Generalist at Adaptyv will manage payroll, finance, hiring logistics, compliance, and general operations to support rapid company growth. The role focuses on hands-on execution and process automation.
Responsibilities
We are growing fast and opening a second lab in London. Every new person, contract, invoice and payroll run lands on someone's desk. You own that desk.
This is the operations generalist seat: finance admin, payroll, people operations, hiring logistics, and whatever else the company needs to run well. You own the machinery so that everyone else spends their time on the lab.
This is not a strategy role and not a pure HR role. It is hands-on, and most of the work is making sure things happen correctly and on time, then making sure they happen without you next time.
Run payroll and people admin. Monthly payroll and the relationship with our payroll provider, contracts, onboarding and offboarding, benefits and pension, leave and absence. Every person gets paid correctly and every new hire has a laptop, accounts and a contract on day one.
Run the finance back office. Supplier invoices and payment runs, customer invoicing and collections, expense and card reconciliation, and the monthly hand-off to our external accountants.
Keep hiring moving. Interview scheduling, candidate logistics, NDAs, work-trial setup and offer paperwork in Ashby. You make sure the hiring process never stalls.
Keep us compliant. Swiss and UK employment rules, permits and visas, insurance, VAT filings, company registers. You are not a lawyer or an accountant, but you know when to call one and you make sure deadlines never surprise us.
Own general operations. Office and lab-site logistics, vendor and software contracts, renewals, company-wide tools and access. When something is nobody's job, it is yours until it has an owner.
Automate all of the above. Payroll, invoicing, our ATS and our ledger all have APIs. The goal is that each process you take over runs with less manual work every quarter.
Qualification
Detail-obsessedAI-nativeSelf-starterTrustworthy with everythingEnglish requiredApplication deadline
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Detail-obsessed. A wrong payslip or a missed filing is a real problem for a real person. You check the numbers before anyone asks.
AI-native. It's 2026. We run on Claude Code across the company, and you use AI tools and scripts to automate your own work. You check what they produce and stand behind the result. The more software engineering experience you have, the better. If your instinct is that operations is a spreadsheet-and-inbox job, we will frustrate each other.
Swiss or UK employment and payroll experience is a plus. Social charges, pension, permits.
Self-starter. Nobody hands you a prioritized queue. You see what is broken or about to break, and you fix it.
Trustworthy with everything. Salaries, contracts, personal data and company finances all cross your desk.
