Job description

Everything starts with the team. Especially in tech. As People & Culture Officer (m/f/d), you are in charge of attracting, hiring, onboarding, enabling, developing and retaining the very best people we can possibly find to join our cause.

Your key responsibilities

Find the very best people to join our cause

• Craft talent acquisition strategies to build strong hiring pipelines across multiple channels

• Lead all recruitment efforts—rolling up your sleeves and digging in when needed

• Identify and address talent gaps, enabling rapid growth while keeping up the pace

• Help develop and establish the Yatta employer brand to support our mission, vision and strategy

Help us to become our very best selves

• Track, manage and implement HR/talent/people-related processes and tools to create an environment where people thrive professionally and personally

• Establish and develop a clear, concise and performance-driven work culture that fosters equal opportunities, inclusion and diversity

• Own the “Yatta Academy”, our training & education program, to develop the best tech teams possible

Build the most progressive tech company on this planet

• Drive forward operational excellence across all disciplines and teams through sincere guidance and feedback

• Work closely with our co-founders, executives and leads to contribute to all strategic and operational goals

• Foster and drive continuous improvement, organizationally, talent- and leadership-wise

• Work closely with the leadership team to continuously evolve employee experience at and with Yatta

tl;dr

• Responsibility for talent acquisition and employee experience with a clear focus on learning and development, performance management, employer branding and our internal community

• Development of the overall Yatta talent strategy including recommendations for internationalization

• Act as sparring partner for C-level executives and team leads across all sites

• Responsibility for the HR budget and as a service provider, mentor and advisor to our internal leads

Your qualifications

Education & skills

• Expert in employee experience and/or organizational architecture with a proven track record of hiring and developing tech and talent

• 5+ years of professional experience in people & talent management or human resources (HR) with 3+ years with leadership responsibilities, ideally in a fast-growing environment

• A completed university degree in business administration, human resources, psychology, law, or similar

• Excellent German, both written and spoken, as well as professional proficiency in English

Personality and way of working

• You see yourself as a “servant leader”, align your actions strategically, and have a proven track record of developing people into leadership positions

• Commitment, personal responsibility and self-motivated drive to go the extra mile to get the job done

• An empathetic, communicative and convincing personality able to engage and inspire people

Some quotes that resonate with us

• “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life forever.” —Amy Poehler

• “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” —Michael Jordan

• “Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.” —Tim Notke

• “Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team.” —Emily Chang

• “Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a ‘professional self’ Monday through Friday and a ‘real self’ the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.” —Sheryl Sandberg