Senior People Partner, GotPhoto
2-3 days a week in office
School photography digitisation
Open for applications
School photography digitisation
101-200 employees
Open for applications
2-3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To allow any photographer to run a successful volume photography business.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in HR, including solid experience as an HR Business Partner or People Partner
- Passion for coaching and people development, with the desire to step into a first-time lead role
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust and influence across all levels
- Solid understanding of HR fundamentals: employment law, HRIS, performance management, comp & benefits, etc
- Experience managing complex employee relations topics with sound judgment and empathy and an entrepreneurial mindset
- Analytical mindset – you bring insights from people data to influence decisions
- Fluency in German and English
- Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds may refrain from applying for positions if they feel they don't meet all qualifications. We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we're excited to discover how your distinctive experience can enhance our team!
Desirable
- Experience in a fast-scaling environment or start-up/scale-up culture
- Previous informal leadership (e.g., mentoring, project leadership)
- Exposure to international HR practices or distributed teams
- Familiarity with tools like Personio or similar
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a strategic and empathetic People Partner ready to step into their first team leadership position
- In this role, you’ll report directly to our Chief People Officer, balancing hands-on People business partnering with leading a small, agile People Operations team
- You’ll be the go-to partner for managers and teams on all people matters, while also fostering operational excellence and team development across the employee lifecycle
- Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders and managers on organizational design, team dynamics, and workforce planning
- Drive HR initiatives aligned with business goals, such as performance enablement, talent calibration, and engagement strategies
- Coach managers on people leadership, feedback, and development practices
- Partner with leadership on change management and communication strategies
- Closely cooperate with your peers in Talent Acquisition to ensure a seamless, holistic People experience across the employee journey
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of 2 People Operations Specialists based in Berlin
- Oversee day-to-day People operations, ensuring consistent, compliant, and efficient processes across onboarding, offboarding, contracts, benefits, and more for all employees based in Europe (mainly Germany)
- Champion operational excellence, automation, and process improvement across the employee lifecycle
- Own and optimize Personio, systems, and data accuracy
Our take
Taking professional photos for events and schools is as much an exercise in administration as it is in photography, with a gruelling and largely manual workload of organising photos, taking payments and shipping out prints eating into a photographer's time. GotPhoto exists to make this process much easier, automating promotions, sales and fulfillment, freeing the photographer to focus on their core business.
Considered the leader in its market, GotPhoto has amassed a customer base of about 4000 small-medium business and sole trader clients across the UK, US and DACH regions. While the company has had strong growth in recent years it still has a large market to grow into, with around 70% of volume photographers still relying on manual systems, and a core market growing by 25% year on year as these photographers start to look to the benefits of automation for their businesses.
GotPhoto was acquired by EQT Growth in 2023, providing investment into the platform's development and adding new features. It will also be able to tap its parent company's commercial connections as it aims to grow its lead in an estimated $5 billion market.
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Insights
58% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid holiday and sick leave
- Subsidised fitness membership through Classpass
- Development & learning opportunities through regular check-ins with your team lead, team exchanges and development reviews
- Education budget, that allows you to grow professionally and explore new ideas
- We’ll provide you with all the relevant work equipment you need in order to successfully from the office or your Home Office
- Yearly team holidays at an awesome location (after successful business year)
- Learning budget for regular trainings and coaching, book- & online course-budget of at least 500 €
- Remote work - You have the freedom to decide whether you want to work from home or from the (dog friendly) office in Berlin (for this position, Spain + Portugal is also an option)
- Education budget, that allows you to grow professionally and explore new ideas
- Urban Sport Club membership discount, to keep active even in these isolated times
- Unlimited holidays (26 days are the minimum)
- SpendIt Card - With a monthly sum to spend on your groceries or whatever you like (after your probation period)
Company HQ
Government District, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Has been CEO since 2019. Before joining GotPhoto was Controller (Business Development & Strategic Projects) for Daimler Truck AG.
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