People Operations Manager
Saltz.app
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Germany
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About the role
- Own HR administration across the employee lifecycle: contracts, onboarding, offboarding, changes, and documentation
- Ensure full compliance with EU labor law, including social security, payroll taxes, and statutory benefits
- Manage payroll end-to-end with multi-country providers, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and audit readiness
- Support entity setup, visas, immigration processes, and collaboration with works councils (Betriebsrat) where applicable
- Confidently manage complex and sensitive cases
- Own legally sound offboarding processes from a compliance and risk perspective
- Own and continuously improve the HRIS (e.g. Personio, HiBob), acting as system owner and internal expert
- Design and automate scalable HR workflows across the employee lifecycle
- Create and maintain clear documentation, playbooks, and internal guides
- Build reporting, dashboards, and processes to ensure transparency, compliance, and audit readiness
- Own leave management processes (parental leave, sick leave, vacation) across countries
- Ensure consistency across regions while thoughtfully managing local legal exceptions
- Partner with founders and managers on leveling frameworks, career ladders, and salary benchmarking
- Support compensation and benefits structures that are competitive, compliant, and scalable
- Advise leaders on whether challenges are primarily people, performance, or legal issues, and how to act accordingly
- Enable managers with clear processes, guidance, and guardrails without slowing the organization down
Requirements
- 8–10+ years of experience in People Operations or startup operations, ideally in high-growth, international environments
- Strong, hands-on knowledge of EU labor law, payroll, and employment compliance
- Proven experience building HR operations from scratch or significantly scaling them (e.g. from 20+ to 400+ employees)
- Deep experience owning HR systems and processes end-to-end
- Comfort handling sensitive, complex, or ambiguous employee situations with sound judgment
- Strong organizational skills and a pragmatic, execution-focused mindset
- Ability to work independently in a remote-first environment
- Fluent in English; German or any other European language is a plus
Benefits
- A competitive salary and flexible working hours: you own your targets
- The chance to work closely with founders who’ve built & sold successful companies
- Be the cornerstone of our People function, you build it your way
- Remote-first, flexible working setup
- Growing international team with a high-performance, low-ego culture
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
HR administrationpayroll managementEU labor law complianceHRIS managementemployee lifecycle managementleave managementreporting and dashboardsHR workflow automationdocumentation creationcompensation and benefits structuring
Soft Skills
organizational skillsjudgmentexecution-focused mindsetindependencesensitivity handlingcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityleadership