People Lead

Our hybrid working culture includes three office days per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) at our Berlin headquarters. Looking ahead, we're also growing London as our second location.

A little about us

• Redefining graphic design: Kittl is transforming how creators work with an intuitive platform that stands as a modern, competitive alternative to traditional design tools: Build the new Adobe of tomorrow

• Rapid growth: Millions of users within just two years of launch

• Diverse team: 120+ team members representing 30+ different countries

• Truly product-led company: Engineers, Product managers and designers are at the core of Kittl - shaping an engineering driven working culture

• Strong funding: Raised over $45M from world-renowned investors who have also backed companies like Slack, Dropbox, and Figma

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We're hiring a thoughtful, driven People Lead to help make Kittl a place where people do their best work. You'll own the systems and processes that shape the employee experience—onboarding, engagement, HR operations—and partner with leadership to build a high-performance, high-care culture as we scale. If you're passionate about creating an environment where people feel supported and empowered, this role is for you.

• Own & improve: Take full ownership of people operations processes — onboarding, offboarding, benefits, HR operations, and performance cycles — and continuously optimize them

• Support & partner: Act as the primary partner for employees, offering timely guidance and ensuring a consistent, values-aligned experience across countries and time zones

• Drive engagement: Track employee engagement and collaborate with leadership to strengthen the overall employee experience

• Maintain & ensure compliance: Evolve HR systems and documentation to ensure accuracy, compliance, and ease of use

• Hire top talent: Lead and oversee recruiting efforts, ensuring a smooth, efficient hiring process across teams while collaborating closely with hiring managers

• Lead & mentor: Support, guide, and develop the People team, ensuring clarity, growth, and high performance

• Experience: 5+ years in people operations, HR, or employee experience, ideally in a fast-growing tech environment with the ability to build and adapt processes for scale

• Operational expertise: Strong knowledge of HR processes, best practices, and multi-country HR operations

• Team leadership: Proven ability to build, lead, and develop high-performing teams

• Empathy & judgment: A high level of emotional intelligence, discretion, and trustworthiness—people feel safe coming to you

• Global collaboration: Comfortable working across geographies, cultures, and time zones in remote and hybrid environments

• Precision & structure: Detail-oriented and process-driven, able to manage systems, timelines, and multiple priorities with ease

• Exceptionally driven to drive impact and challenge the status quo

• Who takes extreme ownership & gets things done

• Who goes above and beyond in their role

• Recruiter interview (30 min)

• Hiring manager interview (45 min)

• Take home challenge

• Challenge presentation (45min)

• Bar raiser interview with CEO (30 min)

• Maximise your impact: No matter if you're leading a team or you stand out by your domain expertise - all we care about is supporting you to maximise your own impact

• Hackathons: Our quarterly hackathons provide an environment to experiment with new concepts, push boundaries, and potentially deliver the next big thing

• Kittl Week: Each year, our global team gathers together for a whole week, to work, celebrate, get inspired, and have fun

• Flexible working hours: Our core hours are 11am–5pm CET, leaving the rest of your schedule flexible to fit your style

• Remote work: Work up to 50 days (10 weeks) fully remote per year from anywhere in the world, as long as you maintain our core hours

• Learning & development: Our L&D budget supports your professional growth

• Mobility benefit: We fully cover your monthly BVG public transport ticket

• Health and fitness: Urban Sports Club membership discount

• Vacation: Up to 30 vacation days per year

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At Kittl, we embrace diversity and value every team member's unique background, identity, and experience. We're all about respect, honesty, and inclusivity. Together, we create a safe and supportive work environment where everyone thrives. Join us on this exciting journey of making our company and product even better