People Operations Specialist (data & projects) M/F
Do you want to work in a caring environment that moves fast? The 5th largest French supplier in 10 years, Octopus Energy is a renewable energy supplier acting as a true spearhead for the electro-tech revolution.
How do we do it? We can't revolutionize the world by working like everyone else. We try not to overcomplicate things; here, we evolve in an environment without too many processes or too many rules. The most important thing is not just to follow the movement, but to create it.
We don't want to create corporate clones. We want you, with your talents, your perspectives, and your unique skills.
Do you want to join a fast-growing company, with a lot of autonomy and a rather different way of doing People Ops? Welcome to Octopus Energy France. With us, we operate according to a NoHR model: managers are the primary people contact for their teams. The role of the People Ops team is to provide them with the right framework, the right tools, the right information, and the right reflexes so they can be autonomous on a daily basis. In this context, we are currently looking for someone solid in People Ops, capable of both building and evolving our ways of working, but also contributing concretely to the team's daily operations. The position is organized around two main pillars, each representing approximately 50% of the role: build: People projects, tools, data, automation, AI, improvement of our processes run: personnel administration, payroll, support to managers and teams, data control and reliability This balance is obviously not fixed: depending on news, projects, or times of the year, you may spend more time on one or the other. What we are primarily looking for is someone who loves building things without losing touch with operations.
What you will do:
- Build: evolving our People Ops
An important part of your role will be taking charge of projects that allow the People Ops team and managers to work better, more simply, and more efficiently.
In particular, you will:
drive People projects from end to end, from identifying the need to implementation
simplify and improve our processes
build and evolve our Help Hub and our documentation
build dashboards and reporting useful for management: consolidate and better exploit data from our various tools
automate certain controls, reporting, or repetitive tasks
identify and test simple use cases around AI and automation
participate in Group projects with Octopus teams based notably in the United Kingdom
support managers in adopting new tools or new ways of working
We are looking for someone who likes starting from a sometimes slightly vague need, understanding it, structuring it, and arriving at a concrete solution.
Data and AI are tools at the service of People Ops and teams, not an end in themselves. We are therefore not looking for a pure Data Analyst or a tech profile, but someone who knows how to use them to solve operational problems.
- Run: contributing to the team's daily operations
The other half of the position consists of being fully involved in daily People Ops.
Depending on the team's needs, you may intervene on:
personnel administration: contracts, amendments, movements, absences, exits...
preparation and control of payroll
control and consistency of data between our various tools
questions from managers and employees
monitoring and resolution of operational topics
support to the team during periods of high activity or when an urgent matter arises
The idea is not for you to specialize in administration or payroll. However, you must be comfortable getting your hands dirty, understanding the topics, and providing support to the team when necessary.
With us, the run is also an important source for the build: it is often by being confronted with daily irritants that we identify what needs to be simplified, automated, or redesigned.
This position is for you if: you have at least 7 years of experience in People Ops, HR Operations, or in a generalist role with a strong operational dimension
you have a very good level of spoken English (minimum B2-C1), indispensable for working with Octopus teams internationally
you have already worked in a start-up / scale-up environment, where you must know how to navigate ambiguity, adapt quickly, and move forward without everything being perfectly framed
you are comfortable with People Ops run: personnel administration, payroll, data control, support to managers and teams
you are comfortable with data and know how to use it to ensure reliability, analyze, and better manage
you have already managed People projects and/or tools, from defining the need to implementation
you are very comfortable with Google Sheets / Excel and, more broadly, with a digital working environment: Google Workspace, Slack, MacBook...
you are pragmatic: you look for simple, useful, and truly usable solutions
you are autonomous, comfortable in a fast-moving environment, and capable of prioritizing between long-term projects and more urgent operational matters
Conversely, it is not for you if... To be transparent, this position will probably not suit someone looking for:
a pure Data Analyst / People Analyst position
a role solely focused on projects, without the desire to contribute to the run
a position mainly oriented towards payroll or personnel administration
a purely tech position
a very strategic or management role, far from daily operations
We are looking for someone versatile and solid in People Ops, who can spend a morning advancing a tool or data project just as easily as an afternoon helping the team with payroll, a data inconsistency, or a manager question.
Why you will love working with us?
You have seen the salary or the range planned for this position but would like to discuss it? Ask us! During our first contact, this is a point we always address, because even if we take care to define the fairest possible scales, it also seems important to us to match your experience with the right salary. We will have the opportunity to tell you more about how we defined the salary and about the other benefits you can enjoy if you join us! Finally, know that we can have a certain degree of flexibility, because we would never want salary to be a reason why someone does not apply to Octopus - what is most important to us is to find the right Octofit!
Certified since 2024 and 4th in 2025, Octopus Energy France is ranked 1st out of more than 200 companies in the Great Place to Work 2026 ranking! This well reflects our commitment to a fulfilling work environment!
We are an organization where people learn, decide, and build faster. Where they work autonomously, with extraordinary people, on innovating projects. Profit sharing, flex-office, excellent health insurance, soft mobility allowance, coverage of part of your transport pass beyond the legal minimum, and even special leave days to invest in a non-profit project that matters to you... We want your investment to be rewarded with benefits you truly care about! At Octopus, we look for people who are fundamentally kind and empathetic. Equal opportunity is important to us and we strive to offer an inclusive and equitable work environment. We invite you to apply, regardless of your age, gender, marital status, color, disability, pregnancy or parenthood, origin, religious convictions, or sexual orientation.