People & Operation Manager

Your Daily Business - no two days are alike

• Recruiting in Ashby, end to end: job postings, sourcing support, screening, scheduling interviews, collecting feedback and following up with candidates. No candidate waits a week for an answer
• Comfortable hiring for both technical and non-technical roles. You can run a process for a senior engineer as confidently as for a sales or ops hire, and you know what good looks like in each
• Offers and contracts: you prepare offer slides that make candidates excited to say yes, and you draft and manage employment contracts through to signature
• Candidate experience: every applicant, hired or not, leaves with a good impression of Zeit AI. You own interview guides, scorecards and the debrief rhythm with the hiring team
• Onboarding: contracts, equipment, accounts and a first week that never feels improvised
• Payroll and benefits: you run payroll with Project B, handle benefits and insurance, and keep finance up to date on headcount and people costs
• HR systems and data: you own our People tools and keep employee records accurate and secure. You pull the numbers the founders need, such as time-to-hire, pipeline health and headcount plans
• Compliance: you keep contracts, policies and processes in line with German and UK employment law and know when to bring in external counsel
• Visa and relocation: you guide international hires through work permits, visas and moving to Munich if needed
• People processes: you design how we run feedback, performance conversations and the operating rhythm, together with the founders
• Team and culture: you lead offsites, team events, the office
• Automation: you find the repetitive work in People Ops and automate it rather than just documenting it

Your Skillset - what you bring to the table

• 2+ years in People Operations, Recruiting, HR Generalist or Talent roles, ideally at a fast-growing startup or scale-up
• Hands-on recruiting experience with an ATS. Ashby is a plus, but Greenhouse, Lever, Personio or similar count too
• Solid working knowledge of German and UK employment law, contracts and payroll processes.
• Very organised with real attention to detail. Contracts, payroll and candidate follow-ups are exactly where details matter
• Excellent communication. You handle a senior candidate, a new joiner and a founder in the same afternoon and adjust for each
• Strong ownership and a bias to action. You build the process when there isn't one yet
• AI-native: you already use AI tools to work faster, and you're excited to automate People processes
• German and English fluently
• Munich, or ready to relocate. This role does not work remotely

What We Offer

• Full trust, maximum support. Full trust, maximum support. You build the People function from scratch
• Munich is our hub. In-person by design, and we cover your relocation within Europe
• Regular team offsites
• Best tools, zero blockers. Daily lunch allowance, dinner covered in the office, Wellpass
• €5k referral bonus if we hire someone you refer

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EU-Startups · 2 months ago

Posted Nov 01, 2026

Posted Nov 01, 2026