Short Description
At SPREAD were transforming the way teams collaborate and innovate in the digital age.Our mission is to empower people to work smarter faster and more creatively and we believe that a thriving engaged team is the heart of our success.
As we continue to grow we are looking for a passionate and strategic HRManager to shape exceptional employee experiences while ensuring operational excellence.
Unlike traditional HR setups rooted in static best practices we are building a people function that is agile data-driven and tailored to the realities of a fast-scaling knowledge-driven organization.
In this position you will report directly to our Founder and take ownership of both the operational backbone of HR and the cultural development of SPREAD. You will manage a small team while remaining hands-on and proactive yourself.
Your Mission
This role combines two essential dimensions:
Run the engine:- Ensure that all core HR operations are reliable compliant and scalable. This includes payroll compensation processes documentation and compliance with German labor law.
- Lead HR systems and data management leveraging process automation and digitalization to enable scalability. By embedding people analytics and actionable dashboards you will deliver real insights that influence business outcomes and inform leadership decision-making.
- Oversee event office and vendor management ensuring that our Berlin HQ remains a functional and welcoming environment.
Shape the culture and grow our people:- Act as a trusted advisor to managers and leadership bringing not only HR expertise but also organizational transformation perspectives that help teams improve effectiveness.
- Drive performance management end-to-end from structured goal-setting to feedback loops and development planning ensuring the process fuels individual growth and business impact rather than bureaucracy.
- Design and implement engagement surveys analyze the results and translate insights into meaningful actions.
- Contribute to career frameworks and organizational development initiatives building structures that enable growth agility and accountability.
- Design and deliver leadership development and learning programs making sure our people have the skills and capabilities to meet future challenges.
- Foster culture and employee experience by shaping internal initiatives events and rituals that strengthen SPREADs values and identity.
Your Experience
- 3 years of experience gained in a top consultancy or advisory practice where you focused on HR transformation organizational development or people-driven change.
- A proven ability to move from strategy to execution ensuring that initiatives are embedded and deliver tangible impact not just well-designed slides.
- Strong experience working directly with senior stakeholders e.g. Founders C-level executives or business leaders with the confidence to act as a trusted advisor.
- Breadth of HR knowledge across operations compliance performance management talent development and culture with the ability to identify gaps and proactively put scalable solutions in place.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both German and English enabling you to engage effectively across all levels of the organization.
- A hands-on solutions-oriented approach with the stamina to balance strategic priorities with day-to-day operational needs.
- Above all you are passionate about shaping employee experience and organizational culture. You see HR not as enforcing best practices but as building adaptive high-impact people strategies that evolve with the business and make work better for everyone
Why SPREAD
- Category Creators: Our Agentic Engineering Intelligence platform connects fragmented hardware and software data into dynamic Product Twins. AI agents operate on this foundation to automate compliance checks dependency analysis and spec generation enabling 10 faster time-to-market and 50% lower lifecycle costs for OEMs like Volkswagen Mercedes-Benz and Rheinmetall. Agentic EngineeringSPREADs Engineering Tech
- Industry-Relevant Impact: Traditional PLM systems hit their limits with software-defined products. At SPREAD youll guide leading manufacturers into the AI-driven era of engineering unlocking millions in savings. Engineering Intelligence
- High Growth & Ownership: Weve grown double digits every year since 2019 and theres a greenfield ahead in untapped industries and regions ready for you to shape.
- Competitive Package: Attractive compensation with bi-annual performance bonus eligibility mobility budget (e.g. Deutschlandticket) Urban Sports Club membership 30 vacation days workation options a volunteering day and a 1000 learning budget.
- Security & Flexibility: ISO 27001 and TISAX certified fully GDPR-compliant with flexible deployments (cloud or on-prem) and a hybrid work model designed to fit your life.
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About us
SPREAD is pioneering Agentic Engineering Intelligence. Our low-code platform transforms fragmented hardware and software product data into dynamic Product Twins creating an AI-ready knowledge base that powers smarter decisions and automation across the entire product lifecycle.
At the heart of our technology lies the worlds first Universal Engineering Information Model (EIN) a semantic framework that connects domain-specific and lifecycle data into a federated Engineering Intelligence Graph continuously evolving over time. This foundation enables specialized AI agents to execute tasks like compliance checks dependency analysis and specification generation seamlessly integrated into the tools engineers already use.
The impact is tangible: companies using SPREAD achieve up to 10x faster time-to-market 50% lower lifecycle costs and significantly higher product quality.
Industry leaders such as Volkswagen Mercedes-Benz BMW Audi Rheinmetall and others rely on SPREAD to build the next generation of software-defined products.
Headquartered in Berlin SPREAD delivers enterprise-grade security (ISO 27001 & TISAX) full GDPR compliance and flexible deployment options in the cloud or on-premises.
Our Vision
The future of engineering is data-driven and agentic. We make product data the most accessible intuitive and impactful resource in engineering so that engineers can unleash their full creativity and drive innovation at scale.
Required Experience:
Manager