Senior People Programs Manager (m/f/d)

Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin. Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.

Part of something bigger
Today we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.
Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe.
We're a multicultural team working from France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, contributing to a wider European network that spans Spain, Portugal.

Your hiring experience matters
Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine and Cegid should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.
If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.

The People & Culture team at Shine

Our People Experience team brings together People Business Partners, Centers of Excellence, and Workplace & Wellbeing to build modern, scalable and fair people practices.

The Center of Excellence (CoE) is the innovation hub of the People team. We design pragmatic solutions across compensation, benefits, pay transparency, job architecture and career frameworks, manager and employee enablement, and more.

Your role

As Senior People Programs Manager, you will own and develop strategic People programs with a strong focus on Total Rewards.

You will work from concept through implementation and enablement, helping us simplify and harmonize People practices across countries and entities.

This is a role for someone who combines deep C&B expertise with a pragmatic, innovative and AI-native mindset.

Your responsibilities

• Shape and evolve our compensation philosophy, salary bands, benchmarking and compensation review approach

• Drive pay transparency and pay equity initiatives across Europe

• Review and harmonize benefits programs across markets

• Contribute to the evolution of performance management, job architecture and career frameworks

• Build clear manager and employee enablement, including practical tools, guidance and communication

• Translate complex People topics into simple, practical solutions

• Use data to support decisions and measure impact

• Use AI as part of your daily work to research, design, automate and improve People processes

• Lead cross-functional People programs in partnership with PBPs, People Services and Talent Acquisition

📍 Location

This role can be based in Porto, Madrid or Berlin.

We operate a hybrid model with three days per week in the office and two days remote.

Some travel within Europe will be required.

About you

• 8+ years of HR experience, including at least 4 years in Compensation & Benefits / Total Rewards

• Strong expertise in compensation, salary benchmarking, salary bands and job architecture

• Experience with pay transparency, benefits and compensation review cycles

• International experience, ideally in a scale-up, tech or transformation environment

• Highly data-driven, structured and pragmatic

• Strong program and stakeholder management skills

• Able to translate strategy into practical tools, processes and communication

• AI-native or highly skilled and curious in using AI

• Innovative, hands-on and comfortable working in a fast-changing environment

• Fluent in English; another European language is a plus

Equal Opportunity Employer

We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.

Our recruitment process

1️⃣ A 30' first call with Isabella (Talent Acquisition) to get to know you better and share more about Shine.

2️⃣ A 45' interview with SVP People to discuss your past experiences and the role we are offering.

3️⃣ A 45' business case presentation to highlight your skills and give you a hands-on feel for the role.

4️⃣ A 30' team introduction, followed by a soft skills interview to see how we can best support your growth at Shine.