Hybrid Senior People Operations Manager

at lemon.markets

• Job title: Senior People Operations Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Switching
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Berlin, Germany

About the role

• People Operations Manager running and improving employee lifecycle processes at a fintech. Focused on onboarding, payroll, data handling, and compliance in a GDPR-first environment.

Responsibilities

• Your mission is to run and continuously improve lemon.markets’ People Operations backbone, so the employee lifecycle is smooth, reliable, and scalable as we grow.
• You ensure onboarding, changes, and offboarding are executed end-to-end with high quality, clear communication, and audit-ready documentation in a regulated environment.
• You are the owner of our People Operations workflows and data in Personio, with a strong GDPR-first mindset.
• You will spend most of your time keeping day-to-day People Operations running smoothly and improving the engine through automation, standardisation, and documentation.
• You will use dedicated capacity to drive project work based on business needs and operational insights you identify through daily operations.
• You sit in the People team and partner closely with Talent, Finance, and Office, reporting into the People Business Partner.

Requirements

• You have 2–5 years of People Operations experience in a fast-moving startup or scale-up and have owned employee lifecycle processes hands-on, not just coordinated them.
• You are fluent in German (C1) and comfortable working in English, as you’ll collaborate in both languages day-to-day.
• You have hands-on experience working with German labour law in a People Operations context, and you know when to involve the right internal or external stakeholders.
• You are confident administering a People system (ideally Personio) and can improve workflows, templates, permissions, data quality, and reporting to reduce manual effort and errors using automation and AI.
• You work with close attention to detail and confidentiality, and you keep People data, access rights, and documentation clean and traceable in a regulated environment.
• You combine high ownership with sound judgement: you move work forward without waiting for perfect instructions, and you know when to pause, clarify, or escalate in sensitive cases.
• You communicate clearly in writing and verbally, and you naturally create clarity through Confluence-style documentation, checklists, and transparent status updates in a Slack-first setup.
• You are comfortable balancing steady operational volume with project work, switching between “run the day-to-day” and “improve the machine” while keeping quality high.

Benefits

• 🚀 Compensation package: We offer you a competitive salary, based on your experience and the value-add you bring to lemon.markets.
• 🕑 Flexible working hours: We trust people to choose when they work best and avoid a rigid 9 to 5 mindset. You decide on the rhythm that helps you do your best work, with only shared core hours from 12:00 to 16:00 to support collaboration.
• 🏢 Hybrid work setup: You can work from anywhere in Germany within a hybrid model. At the same time, in-person collaboration is a key part of our culture. That being said, individual contributer lemoneers work 4 days or more per month on-site in our Berlin office, spending quality time together with the team at events, onsites/offsites or over team dinners.
• 📈 Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously! You’ll get regular mentorship and stretch opportunities, a clear career development framework with frequent feedback conversations as well as an annual learning budget.
• 🌱 People & culture: You’ll feel our culture in the small things, like polaroids from our lemoneers’ first day, Friday food market strolls at Maybachufer, and our monthly new-joiner breakfast. But also in the bigger things: celebrating the onboarding of new partners, growing our teams, and owning a strong discussion culture.
• 💛 Perks & benefits: We choose benefits that add actual value. We sponsor a Deutschlandticket for employees on unlimited contracts, plus 50% off on Beatvest - our partner for financial education and investing.
• 🏝 Workation: Get out of here! At lemon.markets you can work remotely from anywhere in the EU for up to 10 consecutive days at a time and up to 60 days per year in total.