People Operations Partner

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Hi 👋 from the Kombo team. We're looking to hire a People Operations Partner who will own our day-to-day people operations as we continue our next phase of growth. Your challenge is to build and run the operational backbone that enables Kombo to scale from 75 to 150 people - while preserving the speed, culture and employee experience that got us here in the first place. You'll be the first dedicated owner of the People function, ensuring that Kombo remains a great place to work as we grow, without introducing unnecessary complexity or bureaucracy. This is a highly hands-on role. You'll be running core people processes, supporting employees and managers, and continuously improving how things work as the company evolves. In this role, you'll operate much more like a builder than a traditional HR manager: you'll identify friction, design practical solutions, implement them, and iterate over time. After 12-24 months, you will have built and shaped the people operations foundation of one of Europe's fastest-growing software companies - experience that will be incredibly valuable for your future career. If you enjoy bringing structure to fast-moving environments and making things run smoothly behind the scenes, we'd love to hear from you. 📱 About Kombo Kombo is building the unified API for ATS, HR and payroll systems. Instead of companies spending months integrating with dozens of different systems, they can integrate once with Kombo and instantly connect to 100+ platforms. We abstract away the complexity of handling different data schemas, authentication methods, and API quirks. Since going through Y Combinator in 2022, we: Grew from 0 revenue to 10+ million ARR and hundreds of customers at a pace that puts us among the ~top 5% of VC-backed startups Scaled to process data for the equivalent of 20% of Germany's workforce Raised $30M+ from Y Combinator, 468 Capital, and other top-tier investors Grew to a team of 60+ working across Berlin and NYC 👀 The Opportunity As companies grow, operational complexity grows with them. Every new hire, manager, process, office initiative, policy, and system creates additional complexity. Left unmanaged, this complexity slows companies down and creates frustration for employees and managers alike. We believe there is an enormous opportunity to build a people function that combines operational excellence with startup speed and an AI first mindset. Today, many of these responsibilities are distributed across founders, managers, recruiting, finance and external partners. While this worked decently so far, we are reaching a point where having a dedicated owner can significantly improve employee experience, operational quality and scalability. This is where you come in. 🦉 Your Role At Kombo, you'll own the day to day people operations that allow our team to do their best work. This is a highly hands-on and visible role with direct impact on how every employee experiences working at Kombo. Your core responsibilities: Compliant Employee Lifecycle: you'll own the employee journey from offer to exit following regulations in Germany and the US: running onboarding, off-boarding, and maintaining and improving HR policies, and employee data, records, and documentation Support Managers & Employees : you'll serve as a trusted people partner across the company: supporting employees with questions, helping managers navigate people processes and collecting feedback and conducting development initiatives Process Improvement : you'll improve how the People function runs in practice: identifying and improving inefficiencies and recurring friction points, automating repetitive admin work and improving HR workflows, tools, and documentation Own Office & Team Experience : you'll help create an environment where people enjoy working together: overseeing office operations and workplace experience, organising off-sites, company celebrations and initiatives that strengthen culture and connection across teams. 🦄 About You We're less interested in whether you've worked in a large HR department and more interested in whether you're excited about building and scaling systems in a fast-growing company. Descriptions that match you: 📚 HR & Startup experience You have 3-6+ years of experience in People Operations, HR Operations, or HR Generalist roles. Experience in B2B SaaS startups or fast-growing tech companies. You are fluent in both German and English. You are familiar with German employment law and HR operations (US employment practices is a plus) ⚙️ Operational and builder mindset You enjoy building processes from scratch and improving existing ones. You're pragmatic, favouring solutions that work over unnecessary complexity - a good process today beats a perfect one tomorrow. You're highly organised and detail-oriented, able to manage many moving pieces without anything slipping through the cracks. You naturally spot inefficiencies and think about how systems can be improved. 🚀 Agenc

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