Intern in Talent Acquisition and Learning at Digital Charging Solutions. Supporting L&D and recruitment processes in a multicultural environment at Munich office.
About the role
- Kota seeks a People leader to establish internal HR functions while engaging externally with customers. Focused on strategy, performance, and benefits for a modern workforce.
Responsibilities
- Set the People strategy. Define and execute a People strategy aligned with our growth trajectory, culture, and position in the HR industry.
- Hold the talent bar. Build the strategy and infrastructure that supports our hiring plans to ensure our hiring standards stay high as we scale.
- Design performance systems. Create scalable frameworks for performance reviews, career progression, and compensation that work for a high-autonomy, high-output team.
- Shape culture. Foster a values-driven environment where people do their best work and want to stay.
- Develop team. Coach managers on feedback, performance, and team health. Build programs that strengthen capability across the company.
- Advise the exec team. Serve as a trusted partner on org design, leadership development, compensation philosophy, and people risk.
- Build People ops. Stand up and refine our core people operations from processes to systems to enable the organisation to be the most effective and effective while we scale.
- Own workplace experience. Oversee physical spaces that inspire Kota's teams to do their best work, while simultaneously ensuring that our ways of working motivate those working remotely.
- Represent Kota externally. Speak at events, join panels, and contribute to the broader conversation about the future of benefits and HR.
- Advise customers. Serve as a strategic partner to the People and HR leaders who use Kota, helping them think through benefits strategy and workforce trends.
- Influence product. Collaborate with Product and Engineering to ensure we're building solutions that solve real problems for HR teams.
- Build community. Grow a network of forward-thinking HR leaders around our platform—people who are passionate about doing benefits differently.
Requirements
- 8+ years in People/HR roles at startups or scaleups (sub-500 employees preferred), with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity.
- Experience building. You've stood up or significantly scaled a Talent and People in a high-growth, tech-first environment. You know what great looks like and how to get there without over-engineering.
- HR tech fluency. You've either worked at an HR tech company or have strong opinions from implementing and living inside these tools. You understand the buyer's perspective.
- Commercial instinct. You're excited to work with customers, influence product decisions, and think beyond the traditional People team remit.
- European employment expertise. You understand the complexity of multi-region operations across the UK, Ireland, and the EU. You've navigated it before.
- Strong advisory presence. You're a trusted partner to founders and execs. You build relationships easily and can translate between strategy and execution.
- Clear communication. Excellent written and verbal skills. You can write a crisp policy doc and hold a room at an offsite.
- Comfort with ambiguity. You thrive when there's no playbook. You'd rather build the thing than inherit the thing.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health Insurance via Kota
- Workplace Pension with matched contributions up to 5% via Kota
- WFH stipend to support your home office needs
- Life Insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off - work hard and take the time you need
- Annual company-wide offsite and dedicated team offsite
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