Fractional HR Operations

People operations that scale.

Systems, processes, programs, and automation.

I help startups and scale-ups under 500 people set up the HR operations backbone — HRIS, employee lifecycle, payroll partnership, and performance cycles — without hiring a full-time team to do it.

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Tools I work in
Google Suite Slack Excel Jira / Confluence BambooHR ADP Deel Greenhouse Justworks Claude GPT agents Articulate 360 Pave Radford Google Apps Script Google BI
What I do

Practical HR operations, built to run on their own.

Each engagement is scoped to a real outcome — a system that works, a process your team can own, a cycle that runs on time.

01

HRIS implementation & cleanup

Stand up or untangle your core HR system so your data is clean and your team stops living in spreadsheets.

  • System selection and rollout
  • Data migration and structure
  • Workflow and approval setup
02

Employee lifecycle & SOPs

Repeatable processes across the full employee journey — from onboarding through to offboarding — documented so nothing falls through the cracks.

  • Onboarding to offboarding journeys
  • SOP libraries and playbooks
  • Manager enablement
03

Payroll & benefits operations

Multi-country payroll run in partnership with Finance and your PEOs, plus benefits administration that holds up.

  • Payroll process partnership
  • Benefits administration
  • PEO and vendor coordination
04

Performance & comp cycles

Operationalize review and talent cycles, and build pay bands using Pave and Radford benchmarks.

  • Performance and talent reviews
  • Comp band build and maintenance
  • Cycle planning and execution
05

Process automation

No-code automations that take manual, repetitive HR work off your plate.

  • Google Apps Script workflows
  • Jira / Confluence setup
  • AI agent configuration
06

Training & e-learning design

Instructional design and live corporate training for small manager cohorts, built in Articulate 360.

  • Course and module design
  • Live manager training
  • Training program management
How it works

Simple to start, clear on scope.

1

Intro call

A 30-minute conversation about where your HR operations stand and what's actually slowing you down.

2

Scoped proposal

I come back with a clear plan — what I'll do, what's in scope, and an honest read on where I can help most.

3

Build & hand off

I deliver the system or process and set your team up to own it, so it keeps running long after the engagement ends.

Use cases

Real automations I've built.

A few examples of the data and process work I do — most of it transferable well beyond HR. Three are written up on LinkedIn; click through to see them.

Data integration

HRIS API integration with an automatic people-metrics dashboard

Pulled data straight from the HR system via API and generated a live dashboard of people metrics — an approach that transfers to any data source, not just people data.

Read the write-up →
Data quality

HR data-quality checks automated in Excel

Built automated validation to catch errors and inconsistencies in HR data before they cause downstream problems.

Read the write-up →
AI integration

OpenAI GPT integrated into Excel for project planning

Wired a GPT model directly into a spreadsheet to speed up and structure project planning.

Read the write-up →
More work

And a range of other builds

Jira project-management automation, HR system integrations and automated data flows and analysis, quick survey analysis, and similar process and data work — scoped to whatever's slowing your team down.

Ask me about these on a call
About

Eight years inside HR operations — now working with the teams that need it most.

I'm Olga Dobrozhan, an HR Operations leader based in Canada. I've spent the last eight-plus years building the systems that let people teams run smoothly — implementing HRIS platforms, mapping employee lifecycle and SOP frameworks, partnering on multi-country payroll, and running performance and talent review cycles.

I work best with startups and scale-ups under 500 people that need senior HR operations work but aren't ready to hire it full-time. I'm straight with you about scope — what I've done hands-on, where I partner with specialists, and where you'd be better served elsewhere.

I work across North American time zones in fluent English, with Russian also available.

Olga Dobrozhan

At a glance

Based inCanada (ET)
Experience8+ years HR Ops
Best fitTeams under 500
LanguagesEnglish · Russian
Time zoneNorth America
EducationMA, Linguistics & Education

Let's figure out what your HR ops actually needs.

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