Senior HR Business Partner, Vay
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Driverless mobility service
Open for applications
Driverless mobility service
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock options
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
- 5+ years in HR roles, with at least 3 in an HR Business Partner or equivalent advisory capacity
- Proven track record in fast-growing tech/startup environments, ideally across Germany and international setups
- Deep knowledge of HR operations, German employment law, German payroll, and talent development practices
- Strong project management and change management experience, including policy design and rollout
- Excellent communicator in English and German (must), capable of working across teams and levels
- Data-savvy and analytical; comfortable creating reports and extracting actionable insights
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills—able to manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders
- You love creating clarity and driving progress
- Comfortable with ambiguity and adaptable in a fast-moving, evolving business
What the job involves
- In this pivotal role, you’ll take full ownership of our core HR processes and expand them with a senior, strategic lens. As the bridge between People Operations and managers across Tech, Product, and beyond, you’ll help the People team stay proactive and ready for Vay’s next phase of growth
- You’ll bring operational excellence and strategic thinking together, driving critical people programs, optimising processes, and partnering with leaders to ensure every Vay team member can thrive
- Be a trusted partner to managers across Tech, Product, and other departments—advising on performance, development, team health, and complex HR topics
- Own and optimize core HR processes like payroll coordination, employee surveys, and performance reviews
- Drive strategic people programs such as promotions, development plans, engagement initiatives, and talent frameworks
- Maintain and evolve policies and HR documentation to ensure compliance, clarity, and accessibility for all teams
- Support on people analytics efforts—co-authoring bi-annual reports and using data to support leadership decisions
- Run cross-functional projects—from anti-harassment and on-call policies to relocation and manager enablement programs
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. 2024 funding is being used to expand its development team and grow its European market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2021
$95m
SERIES B
May 2019
$14.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $109.2m
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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