Hugging Face

International HR Ops - EMEA Remote

France

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Junior (1 to 2 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Human Resources, BiotechnologyIndustries

Position Overview

  • Location Type: Remote
  • Job Type: Full-time
  • Department: People

Hugging Face is building the fastest-growing platform for AI builders, serving millions of users and organizations. We are seeking an HR Operations specialist to manage global HR processes, support company culture, and improve our HR environment.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience as a People Operations/HR specialist, preferably in a startup environment.
  • Educational background in legal or HR is ideal.
  • Strategic thinking with the ability to be nimble, pragmatic, and creative in problem-solving.
  • Autonomous, independent, and communicative.
  • Great organizational and administrative writing skills.
  • Passion for employee experiences and a strong understanding of diversity and inclusion.
  • Experience in building processes from scratch and thriving in a fast-growing international environment.
  • Solid startup or entrepreneurial experience is preferred.
  • Mandatory: Fluency in both French and English.

Responsibilities

  • Manage employee onboarding and offboarding processes worldwide.
  • Act as the "guardian" of company culture by providing daily support to the team on benefits, visas/relocation, salary, agreements, PTO, and stock options.
  • Coordinate recruitment-related issues with the Talent Acquisition Lead, including preparing contracts.
  • Improve the company's HR environment.
  • Work with external accountants to manage payroll.
  • Correspond with external service providers (lawyers, visa providers, accountants) globally.

About Hugging Face

Hugging Face is committed to building a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusivity, creating a workplace where everyone feels respected and supported. We are an equal opportunity employer.

What We Offer

  • Development: Opportunities to work with industry leaders, reimbursement for conferences, training, and education.
  • Well-being: Flexible working hours, remote options, health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and dependents, parental leave, and flexible paid time off.
  • Support: Opportunities to visit offices in NYC and Paris, workstation outfitting for remote employees.
  • Equity: Company equity as part of the compensation package.
  • Community: Support for the ML/AI community.

Additional Details

  • Published: 2025-06-05

Skills

HR Operations
Employee onboarding
Employee offboarding
Benefits management
Visas/Relocation
Salary administration
Contract preparation
Payroll management
Legal knowledge
Organizational skills
Administrative writing
Bilingual fluency in French and English

Hugging Face

Develops advanced NLP models for text tasks

About Hugging Face

Hugging Face develops machine learning models focused on understanding and generating human-like text. Their main products include advanced natural language processing (NLP) models like GPT-2 and XLNet, which can perform tasks such as text completion, translation, and summarization. Users can access these models through a web application and a repository, making it easy to integrate AI into various applications. Unlike many competitors, Hugging Face offers a freemium model, allowing users to access basic features for free while providing subscription plans for advanced functionalities. The company also tailors solutions for large organizations, including custom model training. Hugging Face aims to empower researchers, developers, and enterprises to utilize machine learning for text-related tasks.

New York City, New YorkHeadquarters
2016Year Founded
$384.9MTotal Funding
SERIES_DCompany Stage
Enterprise Software, AI & Machine LearningIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Flexible Work Environment
Health Insurance
Unlimited PTO
Equity
Growth, Training, & Conferences
Generous Parental Leave

Risks

Salesforce's exclusive partnerships may limit Hugging Face's access to training datasets.
Microsoft's rStar-Math technique could outperform Hugging Face's NLP models in specific tasks.
DeepSeek-V3's release may intensify competition in the ultra-large model space.

Differentiation

Hugging Face offers a massive library of over one million AI models.
The company provides a thriving online community for open-source AI collaboration.
Hugging Face's freemium model allows easy access to advanced NLP tools.

Upsides

Collaboration with Microsoft could enhance small model performance in mathematical reasoning.
Partnership with DeepSeek may boost Hugging Face's ultra-large model capabilities.
Integration with Salesforce's ProVision could improve multimodal AI capabilities.

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