Job Description
At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break? No quad bikes, no dogs, no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. It's changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us you’ll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world - this isn’t easy, and in truth, we love that it’s hard.
We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.
To find out more, visit our careers website, LinkedIn & Instagram.
At Halter, we’re building world-class virtual fencing technology that transforms the way farmers and ranchers work. We tackle complex, real-world problems with technical solutions, helping farmers lift productivity, care for their animals, and farm more sustainably.
Being office first is a core pillar of our culture. We believe in-person connections are key to driving your own growth, learning, impact, and building genuine long-lasting relationships. Strong relationships make it easier to disagree, give feedback, and do meaningful and aligned work. We don’t like having heaps of rules or policies, but this means having strong, trusted relationships is critical.
We’re office first, not office only. This means working from the office everyday is our default setting, but we flex when we need to. We have a high-trust culture, so everyone is trusted to do what’s best for Halter.
Our office vibe is something special, it’s hard to describe until you’re here, but people at Halter who have come from fully remote or hybrid companies say they could never go back - the high energy and spectacular people they are now surrounded by everyday makes work so enjoyable. Your growth, your learning and your impact is truly unlimited here, and a big part of that comes from being together solving problems, innovating, building context, and constantly learning from each other.
About this role:
We’re a high-growth startup with increasingly global and distributed teams across NZ, Australia, and the US. This is a unique and rare People Operations role in a fast-scaling company, with big ambitions and expectations for continued, significant growth. Our pace of growth, particularly across our people, is what makes this role interesting and challenging. We need to continue building and evolving systems that underpin a workforce growing quickly, across locations, and that reflect our ambitions to bring a human, yet data-driven approach to our people operations and approach to performance.
As our People Operations Lead, you’ll build and manage the central systems and workflows that underpin our people, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and scalability across People & Performance, Finance, and IT. This is a critical role, working cross-functionally across Halter to build and maintain systems that create clarity, unlock people and performance, enable speed and confidence, and deliver meaningful, accurate people insights.
This role is the single source of truth for people systems, enabling reliable and insightful reporting, compliant processes, and smooth employee lifecycle management as Halter continues to scale globally.
Key Responsibilities:
Core People Systems & Workflows: Design, build, and continuously improve core people systems that underpin our workforce.
Deliver system upgrades and workflows that improve efficiency, clarify ownership, and limit human error.
Cross-Functional Systems & Data Flow: Work closely with People & Performance, Finance, and IT to align people systems and workflows.
Drive system changes that impact multiple teams, proactively managing downstream impacts. Shape scalable joiner, mover, leaver, and compensation workflows with clear ownership across teams.
Communication & Engagement: Drive pragmatic stakeholder engagement to reach high-quality outcomes efficiently.
Communicate system changes and improvements clearly to build shared understanding and engagement
People Data & Insights. Unlock trusted, accurate people reporting.
Design systems that support holistic insights across the employee lifecycle
Other responsibilities from time to time that come with holding a generalist role in a lean, fast-moving company
We’re looking for someone who:
Has proven experience standing up core, centralised software systems that underpin day-to-day operations. You might have stood up a CRM in RevOps, built out martech in Marketing, or owned another mission-critical platform
Has experience partnering with stakeholders to understand their needs and design systems that drive outcomes and adoption
Starts with the human problem first, not the system. You want to understand how people actually work, where friction exists, and what’s getting in the way - then design the right solution, not the other way around
Is a simplifier. You’re known for untangling complexity, and you get more excited about removing a step than adding one
Operates from first principles rather than relying on “best practice.” You break problems apart, identify root causes, and design solutions that address the core challenges
Brings a structured, detail-oriented approach, while staying pragmatic and outcomes-focused
Loves driving efficiency
Is an engaging, clear communicator. You know the best systems and workflows are useless if no one understands or adopts them. You design and communicate with adoption in mind
Why our team loves working at Halter
At Halter, we’re committed to creating an environment where people thrive. We offer unlimited paid annual leave, as well as additional wellness days. Each year, every team member receives a $1,000 self-development budget to invest in whatever fuels their personal growth.
We offer six months of fully paid leave for primary caregivers and four weeks of fully paid leave for secondary caregivers, along with a range of additional family-friendly benefits. To support your wellbeing, we offer subsidised health insurance through Southern Cross.
And finally, everyone at Halter is an owner. Every employee is part of our stock ownership plan; when we succeed, you share in that success.
Our office-first approach
Being office-first is a core pillar of our culture. We believe in-person connections are key to driving your own growth, learning, impact, and building genuine long-lasting relationships.
We’re office first, not office only. This means that working from the office every day is our default setting, but we flex when needed. Your growth, learning, and impact are truly unlimited here, and a big part of that comes from being together, solving problems, innovating, building context, and constantly learning from each other.
We have a state-of-the-art, dog-friendly office in the heart of Auckland City and a test farm in Morrinsville. Delicious snacks and drinks are readily available.
About Halter
At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices and revolutionizing grazing with Halter. People join Halter to do meaningful work. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world. We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC, BOND, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse Ventures.
Join our team
If this opportunity sounds like you, please apply below by sending your cover letter explaining why you’re excited about this role and working at Halter, along with your CV.
If you think you have what it takes but don’t necessarily meet every requirement on this job description, please still get in touch. We’d love to chat to see if you’ll be an epic fit!
Feel free to check out the careers page for more information on working at Halter and don't forget to follow us on LinkedIn & Instagram.
Join our team
Halter is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace — a place where we can each be ourselves and do the best work of our lives. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the requirements, women and under-represented groups of candidates tend to only apply when they meet every requirement. If you think you have what it takes but don’t necessarily tick every requirement on this job description, please still get in touch and apply to Halter. We’d love to chat to see if you’ll be an epic fit!
If this opportunity sounds like you, please apply below by sending through your cover letter explaining why you’re excited about this role and working at Halter, along with your CV, and we’ll be in touch!
Please also feel free to check out the careers page for more information on working at Halter and don't forget to follow us on LinkedIn & Instagram.
Why our team loves working at Halter:
Work that genuinely matters. Every now and again a company comes along that transforms an entire industry and leaves the world in a better place. Our team gets to be part of something truly meaningful, helping farmers improve their livelihoods, spend more time with their families, and build more sustainable operations.
Spectacular people solving hard problems. Our culture is designed for talented people to do work that changes lives. The team is filled with diverse, kind, and driven people who push each other to do their best work. You'll be thrown into the deep end, tackling complex challenges and building something tangible that solves real problems.
You'll grow here. Autonomy, mastery, and learning define how we work. You'll have the freedom to work on interesting problems, master new skills, and continuously develop yourself, both through your role and our $1,000 personal growth fund.
This isn't easy, and we love that it's hard. Working at Halter will be the most rewarding and the most challenging work of your life. We move fast, take bold bets, and work hard to reshape an entire industry. As one team member put it: "Joining Halter is a bit like strapping yourself to a rocket ship, but it's an epic journey to be a part of!"
We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.
To find out more, visit our careers website, LinkedIn & Instagram.
At Halter, we’re building world-class virtual fencing technology that transforms the way farmers and ranchers work. We tackle complex, real-world problems with technical solutions, helping farmers lift productivity, care for their animals, and farm more sustainably.
Being office first is a core pillar of our culture. We believe in-person connections are key to driving your own growth, learning, impact, and building genuine long-lasting relationships. Strong relationships make it easier to disagree, give feedback, and do meaningful and aligned work. We don’t like having heaps of rules or policies, but this means having strong, trusted relationships is critical.
We’re office first, not office only. This means working from the office everyday is our default setting, but we flex when we need to. We have a high-trust culture, so everyone is trusted to do what’s best for Halter.
Our office vibe is something special, it’s hard to describe until you’re here, but people at Halter who have come from fully remote or hybrid companies say they could never go back - the high energy and spectacular people they are now surrounded by everyday makes work so enjoyable. Your growth, your learning and your impact is truly unlimited here, and a big part of that comes from being together solving problems, innovating, building context, and constantly learning from each other.
About this role:
We’re a high-growth startup with increasingly global and distributed teams across NZ, Australia, and the US. This is a unique and rare People Operations role in a fast-scaling company, with big ambitions and expectations for continued, significant growth. Our pace of growth, particularly across our people, is what makes this role interesting and challenging. We need to continue building and evolving systems that underpin a workforce growing quickly, across locations, and that reflect our ambitions to bring a human, yet data-driven approach to our people operations and approach to performance.
As our People Operations Lead, you’ll build and manage the central systems and workflows that underpin our people, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and scalability across People & Performance, Finance, and IT. This is a critical role, working cross-functionally across Halter to build and maintain systems that create clarity, unlock people and performance, enable speed and confidence, and deliver meaningful, accurate people insights.
This role is the single source of truth for people systems, enabling reliable and insightful reporting, compliant processes, and smooth employee lifecycle management as Halter continues to scale globally.
Key Responsibilities:
Core People Systems & Workflows: Design, build, and continuously improve core people systems that underpin our workforce.
Deliver system upgrades and workflows that improve efficiency, clarify ownership, and limit human error.
Cross-Functional Systems & Data Flow: Work closely with People & Performance, Finance, and IT to align people systems and workflows.
Drive system changes that impact multiple teams, proactively managing downstream impacts. Shape scalable joiner, mover, leaver, and compensation workflows with clear ownership across teams.
Communication & Engagement: Drive pragmatic stakeholder engagement to reach high-quality outcomes efficiently.
Communicate system changes and improvements clearly to build shared understanding and engagement
People Data & Insights. Unlock trusted, accurate people reporting.
Design systems that support holistic insights across the employee lifecycle
Other responsibilities from time to time that come with holding a generalist role in a lean, fast-moving company
We’re looking for someone who:
Has proven experience standing up core, centralised software systems that underpin day-to-day operations. You might have stood up a CRM in RevOps, built out martech in Marketing, or owned another mission-critical platform
Has experience partnering with stakeholders to understand their needs and design systems that drive outcomes and adoption
Starts with the human problem first, not the system. You want to understand how people actually work, where friction exists, and what’s getting in the way - then design the right solution, not the other way around
Is a simplifier. You’re known for untangling complexity, and you get more excited about removing a step than adding one
Operates from first principles rather than relying on “best practice.” You break problems apart, identify root causes, and design solutions that address the core challenges
Brings a structured, detail-oriented approach, while staying pragmatic and outcomes-focused
Loves driving efficiency
Is an engaging, clear communicator. You know the best systems and workflows are useless if no one understands or adopts them. You design and communicate with adoption in mind
Why our team loves working at Halter
At Halter, we’re committed to creating an environment where people thrive. We offer unlimited paid annual leave, as well as additional wellness days. Each year, every team member receives a $1,000 self-development budget to invest in whatever fuels their personal growth.
We offer six months of fully paid leave for primary caregivers and four weeks of fully paid leave for secondary caregivers, along with a range of additional family-friendly benefits. To support your wellbeing, we offer subsidised health insurance through Southern Cross.
And finally, everyone at Halter is an owner. Every employee is part of our stock ownership plan; when we succeed, you share in that success.
Our office-first approach
Being office-first is a core pillar of our culture. We believe in-person connections are key to driving your own growth, learning, impact, and building genuine long-lasting relationships.
We’re office first, not office only. This means that working from the office every day is our default setting, but we flex when needed. Your growth, learning, and impact are truly unlimited here, and a big part of that comes from being together, solving problems, innovating, building context, and constantly learning from each other.
We have a state-of-the-art, dog-friendly office in the heart of Auckland City and a test farm in Morrinsville. Delicious snacks and drinks are readily available.
About Halter
At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices and revolutionizing grazing with Halter. People join Halter to do meaningful work. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world. We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC, BOND, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse Ventures.
Join our team
If this opportunity sounds like you, please apply below by sending your cover letter explaining why you’re excited about this role and working at Halter, along with your CV.
If you think you have what it takes but don’t necessarily meet every requirement on this job description, please still get in touch. We’d love to chat to see if you’ll be an epic fit!
Feel free to check out the careers page for more information on working at Halter and don't forget to follow us on LinkedIn & Instagram.
Join our team
Halter is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace — a place where we can each be ourselves and do the best work of our lives. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the requirements, women and under-represented groups of candidates tend to only apply when they meet every requirement. If you think you have what it takes but don’t necessarily tick every requirement on this job description, please still get in touch and apply to Halter. We’d love to chat to see if you’ll be an epic fit!
If this opportunity sounds like you, please apply below by sending through your cover letter explaining why you’re excited about this role and working at Halter, along with your CV, and we’ll be in touch!
Please also feel free to check out the careers page for more information on working at Halter and don't forget to follow us on LinkedIn & Instagram.
Why our team loves working at Halter:
Work that genuinely matters. Every now and again a company comes along that transforms an entire industry and leaves the world in a better place. Our team gets to be part of something truly meaningful, helping farmers improve their livelihoods, spend more time with their families, and build more sustainable operations.
Spectacular people solving hard problems. Our culture is designed for talented people to do work that changes lives. The team is filled with diverse, kind, and driven people who push each other to do their best work. You'll be thrown into the deep end, tackling complex challenges and building something tangible that solves real problems.
You'll grow here. Autonomy, mastery, and learning define how we work. You'll have the freedom to work on interesting problems, master new skills, and continuously develop yourself, both through your role and our $1,000 personal growth fund.
This isn't easy, and we love that it's hard. Working at Halter will be the most rewarding and the most challenging work of your life. We move fast, take bold bets, and work hard to reshape an entire industry. As one team member put it: "Joining Halter is a bit like strapping yourself to a rocket ship, but it's an epic journey to be a part of!"
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The People Operations Lead position is now open for candidates interested in the Operator & Technician Jobs sector. This role in Auckland offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Operator & Technician Jobs is a plus.
