Talent & Operations Manager | T-1 VC backed Mobility Start-up

Youll work directly with our Head of People as the second person in a small high-trust People & Talent function in our T-1 VC backed Mobility Start-up. Currently 75 people across 3 sites and 12 stores hiring toward 95 by year-end and heading into our next stage.

This is a build role not a maintenance one: Youll own projects end-to-end work with real data and operate at the intersection of operations strategy and execution.

• Kill manual work. Find the processes that shouldnt exist and remove them Notion hygiene HRIS setup workflow automation. You treat weve always done it manually as a bug.
• Recruiting with full ownership of your own roles. A reliable bridge between candidates and hiring managers. You run a defined set of positions yourself; the senior and hardest-to-fill searches stay with the Head of People so youre set up to win not to drown.
• Onboarding & offboarding end to end. From signed contract to a productive first week and to clean correct exits. Built to scale not just to work once.
• Compliance and operations airtight. Employment contracts certificates references compliance documentation across all sites accurate and on time every time.
• Employee benefits evidence-based. Research benchmark and implement benefits from data not gut feel.
• Employer brand & job-ad content. Help craft how our roles and culture show up to candidates sharp job ads careers content a hiring experience people talk about. (If you also bring paid-channel skills great but its not what this role is judged on.)
• Your own judgment. If you spot something missing or broken you say so and then you fix it.

• Some experience in start-up ecosystem and/or people systems is a definitive plus. Internships count.
• Structured and precise: nothing falls through the cracks nothing gets left half-finished
• Fluent German (C2) is a hard requirement. Professional-level English
• You think in systems: if you do something twice by the third time youre already building the process
• Works independently and closes the loop without being chased
• Discreet youll handle sensitive information and take that seriously
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to prioritise when everything feels urgent

Our Offer: Small HQ team high intensity and big outcomes. Youll move fast and work directly with leadership who trust you to deliver.

• Huge End-to-End Ownership: Make a real impact from day one across functions. Shape a fast-scaling platform at its inception.
• Accelerated Career Growth: Gain firsthand exposure in a scaling a high-growth ops-heavy start-up - a solid launchpad for future leadership or founding roles. Experience a small core team with flat hierarchies and direct decision paths.
• Prime Location: Work from our central Berlin Mitte office (Rosenthaler Platz).
• TopNotch Product: Our product delivers - with NPS scores >90 (B2B and B2C) and Google ratings consistently between 4.8 and 5.0 stars.
• Wellpass Laptop VSOP: Gym Membership work laptop and possible VSOP package.
• Mentorship from experienced scale-up professionals: Work directly and get mentorship from an experienced Entreprenur in Residence who acted as right hand to Founders in multiple early stages and scale-ups including Getir.