People Partner

Numa; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote options & flexible hours

Geographic flexibility

Night at numa stay

Team events and retreats

Work from home equipment

Job summary

Numa is seeking a Senior People Partner/HR Operations Lead in Germany to oversee regional onboarding, lifecycle events, compliance, and data integrity while collaborating with local teams in Berlin. You will drive engagement, design scalable processes, and guide leaders on organizational design and workforce strategy.

You will partner with regional leaders on talent reviews, learning, and performance cycles, ensuring compliant employee relations and accurate payroll data across countries.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of employment law in at least two covered countries.
• 4+ years of experience in a People Partner / HR Operations Lead role with multi-country scope.
• Willingness to work from HQ in Berlin at least 3 days per week.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English and at least one of Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese at C1 level.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute onboarding, contract changes, leaves, and exits for your region.
• Serve as primary People topics contact, resolving queries via inbox/help desk.
• Identify pain points and automate/scale People Operations processes.
• Maintain data accuracy in HRIS (Personio) and coordinate payroll data input.
• Keep Notion knowledge base up to date with localized information.
• Manage regional compliance topics including health & safety and benefits.
• Partner with General Managers to drive culture and engagement regionally.
• Act as strategic partner on organizational design, talent planning, and payroll budgets.
• Lead performance review cycles and calibration, supporting talent reviews and career development.
• Identify training needs and deliver tailored learning sessions.
• Handle employee relations cases with fair, timely, compliant resolutions.
• Provide expert guidance on country-specific employment laws and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Employment law knowledge

AI in HR

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Tools

Personio

Notion

HRIS

Job description

• Own and execute the key lifecycle moments for your region—onboarding, contract changes, leaves, and exits—ensuring a seamless, high quality, and compliant experience
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all People topics in your region, resolving queries in our inbox and help desk
• Identify pain points and implement improvements to make People Operations processes more efficient, automated, and scalable
• Maintain data accuracy for your region in our HRIS (Personio) and work closely with Payroll to ensure timely and accurate data input for smooth payroll input processes
• Keep our internal knowledge base (Notion) up to date with clear localized information
• Manage regional compliance topics, including health & safety, benefits administration, etc
• Partner with General Managers and local teams to strengthen our culture, driving engagement initiatives with regional teams
• Act as a strategic partner to regional leaders, e.g. with regard to organizational design, talent planning, workforce strategy and payroll budgets
• Lead performance review cycles and calibration sessions. Partner with leaders on talent reviews, succession planning, and career development initiatives
• Identify training needs and design and deliver tailored learning sessions to upskill teams and leaders
• Handle employee relations cases, ensuring fair, timely, and compliant resolutions
• Provide expert guidance on country-specific employment laws and regulatory requirements

Benefits

• Agile work environment with flat hierarchies
• Remote options & flexible hours
• Geographic flexibility
• We want you to understand our product so upon your start, you’ll get to spend a night at your nearest numa stay!
• Team events and retreats
• Work from home equipment

• Strong stakeholder-management abilities and a collaborative, relationship-driven working style
• Strong knowledge of employment law in at least 2 of the covered countries, with the motivation to develop expertise in the others
• Motivated to help shape the future of People processes and People partnering at Numa, building new frameworks from scratch or improving upon existing ones
• 4+ years of experience in a People Partner / HR Operations Lead role with multi-country responsibility
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for exploring how AI can enhance People processes and the employee experience
• Willingness to work from our HQ in Berlin at least 3 days per week, with occasional travel to the regions you support
• Proactive, autonomous, solution-oriented, and skilled at navigating complex or ambiguous situations
• High attention to detail and comfortable managing sensitive data accurately
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and at least one of the following at C1 level: Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese