🕒 3 days ago
Own and evolve the reward framework end to end, from pay strategy, benchmarking and review cycles to benefits, equity analysis and reporting, advising senior leaders with clear, evidence-based recommendations.
Senior People and Culture Manager
🔥 14 hours ago
Recruiting OperationsHiring StrategySourcingScreening
📜 Description
- Own recruiting strategy and operations, including sourcing, screening, pipeline management, and hiring process design.
- Design and deliver onboarding programs for new employees.
- Build people processes, policies, and frameworks to support rapid growth.
- Develop employer branding and recruitment marketing to attract talent.
- Support employee engagement, retention, and a high-performance culture.
- Manage HR administration and address German labor law compliance.
🛠️ Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in people or HR roles, including 3 or more years building or leading a people function in an early-stage startup or comparable high-growth environment.
- Experience independently owning the people function as a senior individual contributor without direct reports.
- Strong end-to-end recruiting expertise and experience building onboarding, HR operations, and people processes during rapid growth.
- Experience with employer branding, recruitment marketing, employee engagement, and culture initiatives.
- Knowledge of German labor law and employment practices, or willingness to rapidly build expertise with legal support.
- Proficiency with HR information systems, applicant tracking systems, and HR administration tools.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment with demanding expectations and ambiguity.
✨ Benefits
- Base salary: €60,000 to €70,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Full job description
About the Role
Build and run the people function for a fast-growing AI startup in Berlin. This senior individual contributor role supports company growth across recruiting, onboarding, culture, and HR operations.
What You'll Do
Own recruiting operations, including hiring strategy, sourcing, screening, pipeline management, and hiring process design.
Design and deliver onboarding programs for new employees.
Build people processes, policies, and frameworks to support a rapidly growing team.
Develop employer branding and recruitment marketing to attract talent in a competitive market.
Support employee engagement, retention, and a high-performance culture.
Manage HR administration and address compliance with German labor law.
What We're Looking For
At least 5 years of experience in people or HR roles, including 3 or more years building or leading a people function at an early-stage startup or in a comparable high-growth environment.
Experience independently owning the people function as a senior individual contributor, without direct reports.
Strong end-to-end recruiting expertise, alongside experience building onboarding, HR operations, and people processes during rapid growth.
Experience with employer branding, recruitment marketing, employee engagement, and culture initiatives.
Knowledge of German labor law and employment practices, or willingness to rapidly build expertise with legal support.
Proficiency with HR information systems, applicant tracking systems, and HR administration tools.
Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment with demanding expectations and ambiguity.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: €60,000 to €70,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
Hybrid role based in Berlin, Germany, with at least four days per week in the office.
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