People Ops & Payroll Manager

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People Operations & Payroll Manager

Artsy is looking for a People Operations & Payroll Manager who wants to build real depth across HR operations, not just payroll. This is a full-time position, and will report to our Associate Director of People Operations.

You'll join a tight-knit, highly collaborative People team supporting employees at Artsy and Artnet across the US, UK, and Germany. When you're fully ramped, payroll will be about half of your role. You'll own it end to end: running every cycle, auditing the results, and being the person employees and vendors rely on for answers. The other half is the rest of HR operations. You'll manage immigration and visa cases, administer leaves of absence, support compliance work, and keep our HR systems accurate.

This is a strong fit if you're early in your HR career, you're good at payroll, and you want to broaden into the work that makes a People Operations function run. You'll learn from experienced teammates, take on real ownership quickly, and see how the full employee lifecycle fits together.

The role is based in our New York office, 3 days a week in office.

What You'll Do

• Run payroll for the US, UK, and Germany, including preparing, auditing, and reconciling each cycle
• Act as the main contact for payroll vendors and for employee payroll questions
• Process payroll steps for terminations, including final pay, severance, and holiday pay
• Own global benefits enrollment and invoice audits, and make sure deductions are accurate on payroll
• Administer leaves of absence from start to finish, including employee communication and return-to-work coordination
• Manage day-to-day work authorization and immigration cases, including working with outside counsel and keeping employees informed
• Support compliance work, including research that informs policy updates when we hire in a new location
• Keep HRIS workflows and integrations (BambooHR, ADP, Lattice) running accurately and on time
• Handle core HR administration, including employment verifications, unemployment responses, and audit support

Who You Are

• Position will be based in-person, in our NYC office 3 days per week
• Must be currently located and authorized to work in the US

Required

• 1–2 years of hands-on payroll processing experience
• Experience using AI to work more efficiently, automate repeatable tasks, and decide where human review is still needed
• Strong attention to detail and a habit of checking your own work
• Clear written and verbal communication, especially when explaining payroll or HR questions to non-experts
• Professional discretion handling confidential employee information

Ideal

• Experience with ADP
• Some exposure to international payroll (UK, Germany, or elsewhere)
• Familiarity with BambooHR or a similar HRIS
• Interest in immigration, leaves, or compliance work

How you work

• Accurate — you catch the small error before it becomes an employee's problem

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h. We have a unique role to play in that growth, so we work hard to deeply understand the industry and build tools that solve real user needs.

• Embrace Change: Achieving our mission in a dynamic tech environment demands constant change. We lean in to opportunity, face ambiguity bravely, and model to others and the industry a state of constant innovation and evolution.

ARTSY AND ARTNET VALUES

Our values guide how we work, shape our decisions, and bring us together as one team. They keep us aligned and help drive us toward our mission: to expand the art market, support more artists, and bring more art into the world—helping us create a future where everyone is moved by art, every day.

Own the Outcome: We need all of us to achieve our mission. We take individual responsibility for team results, and we push to get the job done.

Move Fast, Learn Fast: We are building and reinventing every day, iterating quickly on multiple ideas to find what drives impact. We believe learning happens by doing and seeing what works.

Be Direct, Be Kind: We trust our colleagues and treat them with respect. Solving hard problems requires having hard conversations, and we support one another by being candid and kind.

Build for the Customer: We believe the art market has to evolve in order to flourish. We have a unique role to play in that growth, so we work hard to deeply understand the industry and build tools that solve real user needs.

Embrace Change: Achieving our mission in a dynamic tech environment demands constant change. We lean in to opportunity, face ambiguity bravely, and model to others and the industry a state of constant innovation and evolution.

Artsy is an equal opportunity employer. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, and veteran status.