Director People

**YOUR ROLE**

We are looking for a visionary* Director People & Culture (M/F/d)* to lead our HR team and help further scale it while maintaining our great culture which is the core of everything we do.
In this role, you will foster a strong culture that helps our people succeed and thrive, while creating the systems that help us scale exceptional performance. We're looking for somebody with proven success in mid
- to late-stage startups who is excited by the opportunity to flex between strategic and tactical responsibilities on a daily basis. You will work directly with our CEO and leadership team, and our internal team to bring your vision and recommendations to life.

**YOUR TASKS**
- Partner with senior leadership to build and support happy, high-performing teams aligned with Appinio's business strategy and values; you will create and deliver a complete human resources capability that can scale as the company grows
- Design and deploy strategies, tactics, and tools to attract and recruit exceptional talent; Strengthen our reach and access to a diverse and qualified talent pool; and support hiring managers to effectively onboard and integrate new hires
- Support, embody and develop a culture that reinforces our mission and values, sustains morale, encourages feedback and continuous improvement, embraces and is resilient to growth, and attracts incredible new talent; Champion a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace and design and implement practices to support their achievement
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior and junior members of the team to increase team effectiveness; Review and improve performance management approaches to develop and retain existing staff; and create individual (e.g. coaching opportunities and feedback) and group solutions (e.g. training programs) to improve capabilities at all levels of the organization

**YOUR PROFILE**
- 6+ years of experience in Human Resources or People Operations, including experience of payroll, administration tasks & talent acquisition
- Bonus: Good knowledge of German labor law
- You support, embody and develop a culture that reinforces our mission and values, sustains morale, encourages feedback and continuous improvement, embraces and is resilient to growth, and attracts incredible new talent; in addition create strategies for our growth and continuous improvements
- You have a strong desire to use your skills to have a positive impact on people. With your passion for people you nurture a positive work environment
- You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and have an ability to create structure out of ambiguity
- Sophisticated communication and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Fluent in written and spoken English

**OUR BENEFITS**
- Flexibility Policy - meaning you are free to take off as many paid vacation days as you need, no maximum
- Work-from-anywhere Policy - meaning you have the chance to develop our amazing product anywhere in the world -within reason ;-)
- Subsidized Urban Sports Club membership
- All the hardware you need and your own MacBook
- In case you're located in Hamburg you'll get a subsidized HVV ticket or if you're located in Hamburg or Berlin you'll get access to a mobility budget with the RYDES app
- In case you're located in Hamburg you'll get access to our beautiful office in Hamburg's city center - terrace and BBQ included ;-)

**ABOUT APPINIO**

At Appinio, we help companies always make the right decisions through real-time market research. As the world’s largest opinion network, we collect millions of responses from consumers every day to allow our clients to turn their questions to insights in minutes. Over 2000+ companies worldwide rely on us to understand how their consumers think.

We started small in Hamburg back in 2014 but we’re now humbled to call the world our playground, with over +200 employees spread across 25 countries, 2000 international clients and a panel reach of 7 million, globally.

Appinio is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.