Elliott Owens

I'm a People & Operations leader — I run the full employee lifecycle for a team (onboarding, L&D, performance management, scheduling, payroll) and use data, mostly Tableau, to turn workforce and business metrics into decisions. Most recently that was as a People & Operations Manager at Sephora, managing a 40+ person, $15M business unit. Alongside that, I've run a freelance brand and communications design practice for 12+ years — fully remote and self-directed. 10+ years of in-store people and operations leadership (Nordstrom starting 2016, Sephora through Jan 2026), plus 12+ years of parallel remote freelance work since 2013. So a decade of leadership experience layered on top of over a decade of already-proven remote work habits. First I Built an onboarding and L&D system from scratch — structured schedules, shadow-pairing, manager check-ins, and a 30-60-90-day review cadence — that took retention from a problem area to sub-6% turnover and pushed employee satisfaction above 80%, while also being adopted by other teams. Second, I Used Tableau-driven payroll and workforce analytics to sustain a 24% profit margin while growing revenue 6% YoY on $15M in sales — including catching an early operational risk during a new store opening (unsustainable clients-per-advisor ratio) and course-correcting it into a location that hit $1.7M in year-one sales against a $1.2M projection. I am looking for a fully remote, work-from-anywhere role in People Operations, L&D, Employee Experience, Workforce Planning, Onboarding and Implementation, or Program/Customer Operations — somewhere I can bring that same mix of data-informed decision-making and hands-on people leadership to a distributed team, in the $80K–$120K range (or €70K–€80K if it's a Spain-based visa-sponsored role).