HR Generalist

Gleanwork
Mountain View, US
On-siteVisa sponsorshipCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have 2+ years of HR generalist experience and are comfortable with a hybrid work arrangement in Mountain View or San Francisco.

Best fit for

  • HR professionals who thrive in scaling environments with cross-functional collaboration.
    — “help drive a consistent, thoughtful employee experience while ensuring strong operational execution
  • Operationally strong candidates comfortable with benefits administration and HR systems.
    — “Operational skills including benefits administration knowledge, HR systems experience
  • Empathetic problem-solvers who can handle sensitive employee matters discreetly.
    — “Possesses solid judgment, discretion, and empathy to handle sensitive employee matters

Things to consider

  • Hybrid schedule requires 4 days per week in-office in Mountain View or San Francisco.
    — “This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Mountain View or San Francisco office)
  • Must be comfortable with AI-focused aspects of the interview process.
    — “you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate experience improving HR processes beyond just executing them.
    — “Help manage and improve core people operations processes
  • Showcase immigration support experience with specific examples.
    — “Proficient familiarity with immigration support
  • Prepare examples of cross-functional partnership with payroll and legal teams.
    — “Partner cross-functionally with payroll, finance, legal, and people operations stakeholders
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • consistent operational execution
  • enhancement of employee experience
Typical background
HR generalist experience

Skills & requirements

Required

HR OperationsEmployee Lifecycle ManagementBenefits AdministrationPolicy InterpretationCross-functional Collaboration

Preferred

AI Integration

About the role

Original posting from Gleanwork via Greenhouse

About Glean:

 

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.

 

At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.

 

Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.

 

If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company. 

About the Role:

 

Glean is seeking an HR Generalist to support and strengthen our people operations as we continue to scale. This role will be a hands-on partner across the employee lifecycle, helping drive a consistent, thoughtful employee experience while ensuring strong operational execution. You will work closely with People, payroll, finance, legal, and business leaders to support core HR programs, employee relations, benefits, compliance, and process improvement in a fast-moving environment.

 

You will:

Support employees and managers across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, role changes, off boarding, benefits questions, leave administration, and policy interpretation.

Partner closely with our HRBPs and the broader People team to help cover a wide range of HR needs across business partnering, operations, benefits, immigration, and employee relations.

Help manage and improve core people operations processes and documentation, ensuring workflows are clear, compliant, scalable, and employee-friendly.

Support benefits administration, employee communications, and HR systems hygiene, and coordinate effectively with external vendors and internal partners as needed.

Partner cross-functionally with payroll, finance, legal, and people operations stakeholders to ensure accurate execution of programs and compliance with internal policies and employment requirements.

Support immigration-related processes and help employees navigate applicable documentation and coordination steps.

Contribute to building a high-quality employee experience by identifying process gaps, recommending improvements, and helping implement more scalable HR practices.

About you:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field

2+ years of relevant HR experience.

Broad HR Generalist experience across people operations, benefits, employee relations, compliance, and support.

Proficient familiarity with immigration support

Possesses solid judgment, discretion, and empathy to handle sensitive employee matters.

Operational skills including benefits administration knowledge, HR systems experience for process consistency and scalability

Location: This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Mountain View or San Francisco office)

 

Compensation & Benefits:

 

The standard base salary range for this position is $134,000 - $154,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

 

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.

 

We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

 

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AI-First Mindset at Glean:

 

At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required.

 

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Source: Gleanwork careers (Greenhouse)

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