People Operations Associate @ Understory

Salary Competitive

This is not the average job post. And we are not the average company.

Laura is a kind, creative, positive soul who loves to cook and loves teaching others to cook. So she started a company offering cooking classes for locals and tourists. The venue is authentic and beautiful - her taste is unique and welcoming. The classes are thoughtfully designed. Every detail is considered. And the bookings start to tick in. It works. Laura gets to do what she loves, creating strong memories for people from all over the world.

But she is also starting to struggle. Managing participants. Hiring and training instructors. Chasing invoices. And the quiet pressure underneath it all: making sure more bookings arrive tomorrow than today.

That passion, and that struggle, is what Understory is built on.

Understory is a vertical-focused, multi-product operating system for experience businesses. With it, creators like Laura manage operations, accept payments, build beautiful websites, and automatically grow bookings across channels. Even the bookkeeping runs itself. There are hundreds of thousands of Lauras across Europe and beyond, and no one has built the platform they deserve, yet. We intend to. We have the product, customers in 10+ countries, and a recently raised โ‚ฌ12m Series A to be the driving force in a fragmented market.

Building that takes people. Soon we are 100 of them, across three offices and three countries. This role is about making sure every one of them is set up to do the best work of their career - from the day they sign to the day they move on.


What you will do

Reporting directly to Lasse, co-founder and CEO, you will:

  • Register new colleagues, changes and leavers in our HR system, and keep the data correct.

  • Handle contracts, onboarding and offboarding using templates and checklists.

  • Collect monthly payroll inputs and send them to our payroll providers.

  • Keep holiday and absence registrations in order.

  • Help with interview scheduling and review cycles.

  • Find the manual, repetitive tasks and figure out how the system can do them instead.


You are probably the right person if you

  • Are early in your career, for example just out of school or on a sabbatical year, and want a real job with real responsibility.

  • Love systems, spreadsheets and figuring out how things work, and get a kick out of making a process faster and smarter.

  • Get annoyed when data is wrong or something is done the hard way.

  • Follow through, and can keep confidential information to yourself.

  • Speak and write Danish and English.


What you get

A steep learning curve in HR, payroll and how a fast-growing tech company is run. You will work closely with our VP Finance and have real responsibility from day one. You also get a strong reference for whatever comes next.


What it is like to work here

We move fast, with agency and customer obsession, and expect everyone to bring proactive solutions every day. You will learn faster here than almost anywhere else, because the challenges are real and the pace is high.

We are host-obsessed, product-minded and serious about quality - in the product, the strategy and how we work together. We care about outcomes, not too much about how each individual gets there. You will get a lot of trust and flexibility, real room to grow, and a genuine shot at building something category-defining.


Location: Copenhagen

Start date: As soon as possible

Questions? Reach out to Jacob at below email address.

For more information or questions please contact us at jacob@understory.io

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Near public transit
Near public transit

Pension plan
Pension plan

Paid holiday
Paid holiday

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

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Working at
Understory

๐ŸŒŠ ๐—•๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€ Understory is a fully vertical platform built for experience businesses - from kayak tours to cooking classes. We help experience creators manage their operations, grow their bookings, and run their business with less stress and more clarity. Our focus is global, our ambition is high, and our team is all in on building the go-to platform for experience creators worldwide. We are a venture-backed company scaling fast, with customers in 10+ countries and offices in Denmark and Barcelona. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ ๐—š๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ด๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ At Understory, great work starts with ownership. We trust people to take initiative, make decisions, and see things through. Ownership isn't about getting everything right. It's about taking responsibility, learning quickly, and helping each other move forward as we are building the leading platform for experience businesses - and we approach that with the same energy and ambition as the people we serve. Everything we do comes back to the people we serve, and that includes our team. We choose our people carefully, prioritize transparency over hierarchy, context over control, and sustainable performance over short-term heroics. You'll have the space to do your best work, and have colleagues who notice โ€” both when things go well and when you need support. ๐Ÿš€ ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜'๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜ We're growing fast, which means priorities evolve and not everything is fully figured out. That's part of what makes it exciting to go to work every day. You will be joining a team that supports our office first policy, cares deeply about what we're building and invests in each other's growth. There truly is room to grow here, and a commitment to shape something truly category-defining.

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