Vice President of People, Matera
€100-150k
+ Stock options
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
Residential building management for co-owners
Job no longer available
Residential building management for co-owners
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
€100-150k
+ Stock options
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make co-owners happy in their building.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a leader who is both strategic and deeply hands-on: an operator who can set the vision and execute the implementation
- Strategic & Operational HR Expertise: You have a deep understanding of HR fundamentals (talent acquisition, onboarding, reward, feedback culture) combined with the ability to translate strategic vision into hands-on, executable plans
- Scalable Process & Program Builder: Proven experience in designing and implementing HR processes and programs from scratch that can effectively scale with rapid international growth
- International & Multicultural Acumen: Operates comfortably and effectively in multicultural and multi-country contexts, understanding local legal and cultural nuances while driving global consistency (direct experience with France and/or Germany is a strong asset)
- Manager Enablement & Development: Strong ability to coach, support, and empower managers, particularly in critical areas like performance management, feedback, and team development
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Highly analytical, comfortable turning data into actionable insights and using reporting to drive prioritization and strategic discussions
- Pragmatic, Hands-on, and Execution-focused: A "doer" who drives results and isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves to ensure execution
- Strategic Partner & Confident Advisor: Able to sit at the executive table, challenge constructively, and build trust and credibility with the CEO, leadership team, and managers
- Change Leadership & Ambiguity Navigation: Deep understanding of change dynamics, with the ability to provide clarity, stability, and guidance during periods of organizational growth and ambiguity, especially during M&A integration
- Balanced Empathy: Possesses deep empathy for both the employee experience and the critical business challenges and objectives
- Growth Mindset: Enthusiastic about building, learning, and adapting in a fast-paced, evolving environment
What the job involves
- This is a critical time for our People function, which must evolve from reactive support to a proactive, strategic enabler of international growth
- We are looking for a VP of People to be the architect of our future organization, ensuring we build a scalable, high-performing, and empowering employee experience globally
- As the VP People, you will be a strategic member of the Executive Team, reporting directly to the CEO
- You will be responsible for driving scalable people practices, organizational clarity, and leadership capability across a growing international team (France & Germany) to enable Matera's strategic growth and foster an empowering employee experience
- You will lead, coach, and develop a dedicated, international People team: 6 People team members in France and 3 People team members in Germany
- Beyond leading the People function, you will serve as a key leadership coach and strategic advisor to your executive peers (VPs and Heads of), contributing directly to the collective strength and effectiveness of the entire leadership team
- International Scaling: Establishing a globally consistent, yet locally compliant, People strategy to support our current headcount of ~300 employees in France and ~80 employees in Germany, while building the foundation for our next stage of international expansion
- Acquisition Integration: Play a leadership role in multiple upcoming acquisitions
- This includes ensuring the seamless integration of new employees, establishing local compliance (especially in new markets), and unifying HR practices to create a cohesive and consistent international employee experience
- What You Will Achieve (Key Outcomes in 12–18 Months)
- Your success will be measured by your ability to deliver measurable, scalable impact across these four critical areas:
- Organizational Effectiveness & Manager Capability
- Data-Driven Reviews: Implement regular People Business Reviews across all functions, utilizing actionable data to proactively identify and address key organizational and team-level challenges
- Manager Empowerment: Equip 100% of our managers with effective routines for feedback, compensation conversations, and goal-setting, resulting in a measurable improvement in manager confidence and employee perception scores
- Effectiveness Metrics: Achieve a measurable increase in overall manager effectiveness scores (e.g., as measured through our employee surveys)
- Talent Acquisition & Onboarding
- Scalable Processes: Establish scalable, consistent, and high-quality talent acquisition processes that demonstrably reduce time-to-hire while maintaining a high bar for candidate quality across both France and Germany
- Cultural Integration: Implement a robust and scalable onboarding program that ensures role clarity and cultural integration for new hires in all countries, leading to improved new hire retention rates
- Core HR Programs & Data-Driven Insights
- Global Consistency: Design, implement, and own core HR programs (e.g., global compensation frameworks, unified performance management cycles) that are consistent globally while allowing for necessary local nuance, showing clear adoption rates and positive feedback
- Strategic Reporting: Establish a comprehensive data-driven HR dashboard that provides actionable insights to the Executive Team, leading to at least 3 org-wide strategic priorities being influenced and driven by People data
- People Team Development & Strategic Impact
- Team Capability: Build the People team's capability to operate as a true strategic partner- acting globally while partnering locally-resulting in measurable improvements in People team efficiency and internal stakeholder satisfaction
- Future Foundation: Lay the foundation for a comprehensive leadership development program and strategic workforce planning initiatives, with clear roadmaps and initial implementations in place
Application process
- We aim to give feedback on your application as quickly as possible (within a week)
- Whether the feedback is positive or negative, you'll receive an email from us - remember to check your spam just in case
Our take
Mantra’s vertical SaaS residential property management platform provides co-owners with a simple, transparent, and efficient solution for daily management. The company also provides co-owners with access to residential building experts can file paperwork on behalf of the owners to ensure legal compliance.
The company’s web-based and mobile app platform enable co-owners to view expenses, contracts, and records in real-time, helping them save an average of 30% on all management-related costs. Owners are also able to access and manage all their contracts with various maintenance and utility partners (ranging from elevator maintenance, heating maintenance, water, electricity, etc) from one platform.
The company has grown rapidly, managing over 3,000 buildings for the 60,000+ owners using Mantra. The company’s progression into Germany and its expansion into rental properties have it well-positioned to maintain its trend of rapid growth as it becomes a leading building management platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2021
$40.4m
SERIES B
Jan 2020
$11.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $53.3m
Company HQ
L'Europe, Paris, France
Leadership
Raphaël Di Meglio
(CEO)Received their Masters in Management from ESCP Business School.
Jeremy Krebs
(CTO)Co-Founder & former CTO of Elephoners. Current Associate at Time for the Planet. Previously worked at a Software Engineer at both PriceMatch and EGG-energy.
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