People and Culture Specialist

Aignostics; Berlin; On-site; EUR 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Aignostics is seeking an HR Generalist to lead day-to-day people operations in Berlin. You will own onboarding, contract changes, leave administration, and offboarding, while ensuring data accuracy in our HRIS and smooth payroll inputs with our provider.

You will advise employees and managers on policies, working time, and benefits, grounded in German law, and help drive engagement programs and scalable processes across a growing team.

Qualifications

• Solid working knowledge of German labor law.
• 3+ years of experience as an HR Generalist or in a similar role.

Responsibilities

• Manage the employee lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding for all staff.
• Prepare employment contracts, amendments, and reference letters; update HRIS with employee data.
• Coordinate with payroll provider to input monthly payroll data.
• Advise employees and managers on policies, working time, leave, benefits, and employee relations.
• Support people programs and drive engagement initiatives and team events.
• Identify and implement process improvements in policies and workflows.

Skills

German labor law

Bilingual English & German

HR Generalist experience

Payroll preparation

HRIS proficiency

Tools

Personio

Job description

• You’ll be the main contact for our employees and managers on everything across the employee lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding
• Your work will keep our people operations running smoothly and support a culture where employees can do their best work
• This is a chance to own day-to-day People operations at a mission-driven scale-up, contribute to ongoing projects and help shape how we grow as an organization
• Manage the employee lifecycle: Help make onboarding, contract changes, leave administration, and offboarding smooth and well organized for every employee
• Oversee people operations: Prepare employment contracts, amendments, and reference letters; keep employee data up to date in our HRIS; and work with our external payroll provider to prepare monthly payroll inputs
• Advise employees and managers: Be a friendly first point of contact for questions about policies, working time, leave, benefits, and employee relations, offering practical guidance grounded in German labor law
• Support people programs: Help bring performance and feedback cycles, engagement initiatives, and team events to life, strengthening our culture along the way
• Improve processes: Spot ways to simplify and scale our policies, tools, and workflows, and help put improvements into practice. Use Claude and other AI tools where appropriate
• Contribute to team success: Share what you know, support your colleagues, and help create a positive, inclusive, and high-performing work environment

The right candidate brings sound judgment, discretion, a collaborative mindset and the ability to turn complex people topics into clear, practical solutionsLanguages: You are fluent in English and German (C1 or higher)Nice to have experience in recruitment and people partneringCommunication and collaboration: You build trust quickly with people across teams, backgrounds and levels of seniorityOwnership and judgment: You handle confidential matters with discretion, get up to speed quickly and work independently when things are ambiguous or changingHR expertise: You have solid working knowledge of German labor law, employment contracts and payroll preparation. Experience with HRIS tools such as Personio is a plusOrganized and results-oriented: You juggle competing priorities, meet deadlines and keep your standards highRelevant experience: You have 3+ years of experience as an HR Generalist or in a similar role, ideally at a startup or scale-up