A little about us

Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere.

In 2021, we have grown rapidly, raising over $70 million in both Series A and Series B rounds and increasing our team size by nearly 10x. And we're just getting started. As a fully distributed startup, we've built an incredibly strong leadership team and employee base across 47 countries (and counting!). We embrace asynchronous communication and collaborative work. We live on our platform, and we're passionate about improving our product every day.

Hiring people internationally is complicated ? engineering, legal, finance, operations, and HR processes all interact to make it happen. We'd like to find people who think this is as interesting a challenge as we do.

We're an inclusive and diverse workplace, and welcome applicants from marginalized groups ? the world over.

Location: Anywhere in the world

Oyster is growing fast, and we are looking for an Employment Vendor Manager to build and own the relationships we have with partners supporting our employment infrastructure across the world. We have built out a global network of "Employers of Record" across the world and you would manage those existing relationships, as well as expanding our global footprint - you will essentially be helping Oyster to grow to be truly global!

The role will be responsible for maintaining the overall relationships, sourcing and doing deals with new and existing vendors, negotiating terms to optimise the proposition for our customers as we grow and embedding these partnerships within the Oyster business.

You will be working in our Global Operations Team who are responsible for setting up our employment infrastructure across the world in a scalable and automated way.

What you'll be doing...

• Sourcing and signing deals & agreements with new employment vendors to give Oyster the ability to hire and provide services in every country across the world
• Owning, maintaining & building on relationships with our existing vendors
• Negotiating with vendors to ensure that we can provide the optimal proposition for our customers, in terms of price, SLAs and conditions
• Manage vendor performance, leading regular calls to review blockers and improvement areas. In some cases, determine vendor termination or service re-negotiations
• Implementing process and communications from/to vendors and creating the playbooks on how we work with these vendors in a seamless way in our Platform
• Act as Oyster's point of contact and interface with our Employment services vendors

Check out our public notion and see for yourself: Welcome to Oyster!

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Mission, Vision, Values at Oyster

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How We Work Together at Oyster

Skillsets that are important

• 5+ years of experience in managing international vendors
• Great communications and presentation skills, with experience communicating and influencing internal, cross-functional teams
• Building relationships with people and being a person that people trust
• Highly organized and able to manage a large number of external vendor relationships
• Strong negotiator: you try and find the win-win for both sides
• Eye for detail: you make sure that we sign deals with small print that doesn't come back to bite us in the future

Skillsets that are not required (but are a bonus)

• Experience of International HR / working with Employers of Records
• Tech background
• Start-up background
• An affinity and interest in how technology and software can help to automate and scale HR functions
• Experience working in a globally distributed company
• Ability to speak languages other than English fluently

You'll also need...

• A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one)
• Fluent English language

Salary & Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package
• Fully flexible hours.
• 40 days including public holidays, or legal minimum in your region if greater.
• Home Office Equipment budget (see details at Equipment at Oyster)
• Wellness and wellbeing support through PlummHealth and WithJuno
• Private Health Insurance (if you want it)
• Time off for volunteering