Head of People, Vay
Company ESOP (stock options) available
3+ days a week in office
Driverless mobility service
Job no longer available
Driverless mobility service
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
Company ESOP (stock options) available
3+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To speed up the rollout of driverless mobility services by using its remote human-assisted driving technologies to build trust in its services.
Role
Who you are
- You have been a key part of a fast-growing scale-up (>50 FTE), you understand the challenges of a pre-launch company and you understand how to engage teams across multiple countries
- Live in Berlin (or happy to relocate) and must be in the office minimum of 3-days a week
- 7 years of HR experience
- 3-5 years of HR leadership experience and be ready to lead the people & culture function
- Proven ability to understand organisational issues and be able to influence key leaders and stakeholders, ideally worked with and reported to Co-Founder / CEO previously
- Shown responsibility for workforce and compensation budget and planning, showing strong business and financial acumen
- Excellent communication skills and ability to “stand their ground” in English and German
- Foremost result-oriented
- Ability to think strategically and be comfortable in abstract thinking
- Ability to act as a trusted advisor to leadership
What the job involves
- Vay is looking for a Head of People, to lead the People and Culture team
- In this role, you will be a close partner to the CEO and to our Co-Founders
- Reporting to the CEO, you will be an integral contributor to the continued growth and success of Vay globally (Europe and the US)
- Build out a world-class People function, including:
- People Operations, People Development, Compensation, Performance Management, Employee Relations, Well-being, Onboarding / Off-boarding and Learning & Development
- Lead and manage the People & Talent Acquisition (tbc) domain, overseeing all aspects of the People function listed above and implementing the appropriate KPI’s to measure the team’s effectiveness
- Lead and manage our leadership training with focus on bootcamps and our toolbox, implement it company wide during the next 12 months
- Define and implement tracking of organisational health
- Define and implement the global people strategy in partnership with the founder team to optimise for personal growth and engagement across Europe and the US
- Promote Vay Company Values, ensuring they are reflected in all aspects of our organisation
- Develop a strategy with the People Team together that fosters a positive, inclusive and collaborative environment
- Improve processes to ensure every aspect of the employee lifecycle is optimised while minimising unnecessary overhead
Our take
Driverless cars are often considered as the future of transport, but the AI-driven innovation is not yet powerful and safe enough to be made publically available. Furthermore, it is anticipated that many people would not trust AI-driven driverless cars regardless of their state of development, preferring to know that a human is behind the wheel.
Vay develops autonomous driving hardware powered by "teledriving", a system in which cars are driven remotely by humans. The German company will begin by providing orderable cars that can be driven manually by the customer but parked remotely by Vay staff, with future use cases including full remote rides, ride-sharing, last-mile delivery, and public transport.
Whilst other companies such as Mobileye have made plans to provide driverless cars to German cities, Vay is standing out with its unique focus on the trust of teledriving. Furthermore, the initial focus on autonomous parking will greatly speed up rollout and give the company a competitive edge.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2025
$60m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$95m
SERIES B
Total funding: $169.4m
Company benefits
- You will be part of a highly committed, experienced, fun and international team from over 25 countries
- You'll be a part of improving transportation in metropolitan areas around the world - from Europe
- We offer healthy snacks, drinks and coffee in our modern waterfront office in Hamburg
- We have a generous, highly employee-friendly stock option plan and pay above industry standards
- We organize thoughtful & fun team events throughout the year
- We support highly flexible working policies where possible as well as support for your relocation – it doesn’t matter where you currently live
- We contribute to a FitX or UrbanSportsClub membership, plus free and all-day use of our Gravity Gym in the Berlin office
- We contribute to your monthly public transport ticket in Berlin so that it costs you <50% of the regular price
Company HQ
Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Thomas von der Ohe
(CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as Senior Technical Program Manager for Amazon Lab126 between 2014 and 2016. Technical Program Manager for Zoox Inc. between 2016 and 2018. Co-founded Vay as CEO in 2018.
Fabrizio Ugo Scelsi
(CTO & Co-Founder)Founded autonomous driving company Mov.ING in 2014, acting as CTO until 2017.
Bogdan Djukic
(VP of Engineering & Co-Founder)Experience as a Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft between 2013 and 2017.
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