Senior People Partner (fmd)

• Lead People Operations & Partnering for Germany acting as the primary advisor and sparring partner to leaders and teams.
• Advise managers and handle complex people cases (e.g. performance management role changes exits) with consistency compliance and sound judgment.
• Own end-to-end People Operations across the employee lifecycle including contracts documentation preparatory payroll benefits administration and maintenance of people systems.
• Own offer and pre-boarding communication ensuring a reliable and smooth transition from signed offer to day one.
• Manage and resolve people requests within our dialogue system ensuring timely well-documented and consistent handling.
• Design maintain and continuously improve people policies and guidelines aligning with the Global People Partner on what is offered globally vs. locally.
• Translate operational signals into systemic improvements identifying recurring issues risks and inefficiencies and turning them into clearer processes and ways of working.
• Own and continuously improve our HRIS landscape (Personio) ensuring data integrity stable workflows and automations and reliable reporting foundations.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. TA People Experience Finance Legal tax advisory) to ensure compliant well-integrated people operations.
• Co-design core employee lifecycle touchpoints with the People Experience team ensuring operational processes and employee experience reinforce each other.

• 5 years of experience in a People Ops / HRBP / People Partner role (or similar) with senior-level ownership and independent execution.
• Deep functional expertise across People Operations with end-to-end responsibility for processes systems and guidelines (Germany-based employees focus).
• Proven ability to advise and enable managers in operational and case-based people matters (e.g. exits PIPs role changes) with clear judgment and calm communication.
• Strong knowledge of compliance-relevant People Ops topics with a high standard for documentation accuracy and audit readiness.
• High attention to detail reliability and a structured way of working; comfortable owning many moving parts without losing clarity.
• HRIS proficiency (Personio preferred) and good data affinity (reports metrics data quality).
• Strong understanding of business priorities and how to translate them into People Ops decisions & frameworks.
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing in German & English (C1/C2 level).
• Experience working in a startup/scale-up/growth-stage environment.
• Hamburg-based and willing to be regularly present in the HQ office (ideally minimum 2 days/week)

• Experience in international People Ops / partnering setups (e.g. decentralized or hybrid/international workforces)
• Hands-on experience with Personio and Leapsome
• Experience building dashboards automations or workflow improvements that measurably reduce incidents and recurring requests

Who this role is for

This role is for a senior People Partner who thrives at the intersection of operations partnering and system-building and is comfortable carrying clear ownership across all three.You are someone who:

• combines strong operational ownership with trusted hands-on partnering for leaders and teams
• balances day-to-day execution with continuously improving systems processes and standards
• applies sound judgment in complex situations while holding clarity consistency and compliance
• thinks in patterns and root causes not just individual cases
• measures success by reduced friction strong manager enablement and trust from employees and leaders

• Team Spirit: Were driven by passion commitment and a shared mission. Team spirit matters to us and we make it visible: with four major team event weeks per year casual monthly on-site and remote formats and a strong recognition culture where we regularly celebrate both the big and small wins together.
• Ownership: Youre encouraged to take ownership from day a flat hierarchy and high-trust environment youre empowered to make meaningful decisions and drive real impact.
• Learning & Growth: We invest in your personal and professional development through a strong feedback culture a personal learning budget and targeted enablement formats. Our goal is to help you unlock your full potential.
• AI Enablement: Our internal tools and workflows are AI-enabled by design. We support every team and individual in applying AI at the next level in their daily work including getting your own ChatGPT license of course.
• Tech & Tooling: Youll receive a MacBook premium headphones and everything else you need from hardware to tools to be effective in your daily doing.
• Flexibility: Whether Hybrid or on-site you work where youre at your best. Our Hamburg office at Rödingsmarkt (with a rooftop terrace) is always open and you decide each week how often you come in. And if you need a change of scenery working abroad worldwide up to 2 months is always an option.
• Recharge: To ensure the needed rest we offer 30 vacation days per year (based on a 5-day week) plus Dec 24th off. We also subsidize your Urban Sports Club membership and organize internal sport meetups.
• Mobility: You can lease a JobRad (Bike) and get a subsidized Deutschlandticket or BahnCard for public transport to be supported in your commute.
• International Environment: Were becoming more international every month with team members already in Italy France the Netherlands and Austria which is why English is our internal company language.