People Operations Team Lead, GotPhoto
School photography digitisation
Open for applications
School photography digitisation
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To allow any photographer to run a successful volume photography business.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: You have a minimum of 5 years of experience in People Operations or HR management, directly interacting with C-level or top management, with first leadership experience. Experience in a startup and building structures from scratch is a plus!
- Leadership: You’re passionate about People Operations, leading by example with resilience, strong communication skills, and emotional intelligence
- Labor Law: You possess deep knowledge of German labor law and a good understanding of European and US labor laws. International experience with other markets is ideal if you haven’t worked in the US market
- Design Thinking: You appreciate a sleek setup, knowing the importance of easy access for employees and focusing on the right tools and process design
- Employee Experience: You understand the importance of creating an engaging employee experience, ensuring every touchpoint reflects our cultural values and supports productivity and trust
- Communication: You’re adept at storytelling, setting clear goals, fostering responsibility, resolving disputes constructively, and simplifying complex topics
- Language: You’re fluent in both written and spoken German and English
What the job involves
- GotPhoto is looking for an enthusiastic People Operations Team Lead to join our People and Culture team in Berlin
- Your core mission as our Team lead is to guarantee that our People Operations processes are compliant, efficient, and user-friendly on a global level
- You are the main architect for building a stable fundament for our processes and the main change manager in this context
- Your role is crucial in shaping how employees experience us as an employer and in conveying our cultural values in everyday operations
- Our team spans the US, Germany, and the Netherlands, and we also operate with Deel (Employer of Record) in Spain and Portugal. We’re eager to find someone as passionate about this mission as we are!
- In the People & Culture team, we aim to shape the work of tomorrow in a human-centric way to empower the business
- You’ll be embedded within this team, leading three amazing People Operations experts and a Workplace Experience person (whom we’re currently hiring)
- You’ll report to Elisa, our Chief People Officer
- Lead our team of People Operations experts, leveraging their strengths to meet business objectives and foster professional growth. Our team is located in Berlin and the US
- Serve as the primary contact for our management team, consulting on compliance topics, presenting new processes and policies, and independently handling strategic projects for both Europe and the USA
- Standardize, streamline, and ensure compliance of all core People Operations processes (Onboarding, Offboarding, Payroll, Administration, etc.) across different markets
- Utilize data to track performance and develop lean, effective processes
- Stay current with legal trends and dynamics across our markets, ensuring timely implementation
- Focus on the employee lifecycle and various touchpoints, including our offices in Atlanta and Berlin, understanding the critical nature of employee experience
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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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 values
- We value honesty and integrity as core values
Company HQ
Government District, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Benedikt Greifenhofer
(CEO, not founder)Has been CEO since 2019. Before joining GotPhoto was Controller (Business Development & Strategic Projects) for Daimler Truck AG.
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