People & Organization Director, Komoot
Navigation technology for outdoor experiences
Job no longer available
Navigation technology for outdoor experiences
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To allow everybody to better find, plan and live authentic outdoor experiences.
Role
Who you are
- Have previous experience in a similar role
- Have at least 10 years in Organizational Development / HR / People roles from a successful and forward-thinking company
- Have proven experience with leading a high performing People teams (3+ years)
- Have experienced scaling a company from 150 to > 500 people
- Demonstrate outstanding leadership, emotional intelligence, and communication (both written and oral) to successfully partner with the co-founding team as well as your colleagues across Europe
- Are an engaging, comfortable, and authentic public speaker
- Bring domain expertise and have solid generalist HR experience across Europe (including compliance and labor relations)
- Excel at driving and managing multiple projects in parallel and ensure delivery within time and scope
- Have experience working remotely, are a remote work advocate, and want to leverage this benefit further
- Have experience designing compensation and benefit strategies
- Have culture and engagement experience
- Have People Performance experience
- Hold a true interest in HR topics, tools, and techniques. You are not afraid to challenge the status quo or make bold strategic decisions. You pragmatically analyze and implement new schemes and concepts if/ when they bring value and make sense
- Have an excellent level of English
What the job involves
- As our new P&O Director, you will drive our people strategy, setting priorities, and researching and implementing new processes and guidelines to provide a 5-star level of service to our team
- Define and track OKRs with the squad
- Lead squad weekly meetings and define rituals
- Ensure quality of service through monthly and quarterly reporting and suggesting actions
- Ensure people operation processes across the employee journey are smooth and non-bureaucratic (i.e., equipment, onboarding, mobility requests, salary reviews, farewell and offboarding)
- Partner with co-founders to define P&O yearly strategy and roadmap
- Finalize and implement our new compensation and benefit strategy
- Ensure komoot is a place where everyone can grow
- Measure alignment between people strategy and team news by a driving bi-annual engagement survey, and reporting conclusions and actions to stakeholders
- Lead our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion efforts, ensuring distributed responsibility and alignment
- Learn and elevate our initiatives to onboard, train, and inspire our Mentors (people who have managing responsibilities)
- Elevate our mentoring documents and resources to help mentors make good decisions
- Set the curriculum of our knowledge exchange session
- Support in crisis management
- Assist with compensation reviews, legal, and compliance topics
- Support the P&O Ops team with daily questions (equipment, travel, etc.), event planning (Gatherings)
- Continue to develop our culture of responsibility, continuous feedback, and open communication
Our take
With the rise of mobile apps, using technology to access outdoor adventures has never been more popular. Komoot, founded in 2010, helps millions of people across Europe plan and enjoy hiking and cycling tours with its Android and iOS apps.
Komoot is aiming to become the go-to app for cyclists and hikers across Europe. To do this, it's growing its community status through competitive and friendly route-sharing technology, as well as increasing its brand awareness to compete with other apps such as Strava and MapMyRide.
With staff all over the world, this work-where-you-want operational structure makes Komoot well-placed to expand into new markets. With this strategy, Komoot is helping more and more people to enjoy exploring nature, by putting as little friction as possible between users and the outdoors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
54% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- 38 days of vacation (incl. public holidays)
- Dedicated time and budget to spend on your professional development: classes, conferences, books – your choice!
- Discounts from leading outdoor and cycling brands
- Flexible working hours and ability to work from anywhere in Europe
- Three whole-company gatherings per year in beautiful locations
- Optional “togetherness” trips with your team
- Costs covered for your co-working space membership or your work from home office
- The latest devices and equipment to do your best work
Company HQ
Südliche Innenstadt, Potsdam, Germany
Leadership
Tobias Hallermann
(Co-Founder)After studying mechanical engineering at the University of Munich, they decided to become an entrepreneur and moved to Berlin.
Markus Hallermann
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied material science, they worked at SwissRe as a student trainee for over 2 years, before co-founding generation next consulting. Was also a Research Associate at GE Global Research for 3 years.
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