People and Culture Manager (gn)

🤩 What You Will Do

As our People & Culture Manager, you will take full ownership of our HR function and play a key role in shaping the employee experience throughout the entire employee lifecycle – from onboarding to offboarding. You will be both a strategic partner to leadership and a trusted point of contact for our employees, ensuring that people and culture remain at the heart of our success.

• End-to-end recruitment: Manage the full cycle from job profile creation, active sourcing (e.g., via LinkedIn Recruiter), screening, interviewing, and coordinating the hiring process up to contract negotiations and signing – always with an eye on finding ambitious talents who raise the bar.
• Trusted partner: Serve as the main point of contact for employees and managers for all HR-related topics and as the interface to external stakeholders (e.g., tax advisors, legal counsel).
• Performance & Development: Lead our established performance management cycles, support managers in providing feedback, and facilitate employee development through initiatives such as Individual Development Plans (IDPs) and Career Paths.
• Culture Initiatives & employee experience: Shape and strengthen our team vibe by driving people-focused initiatives and planning and executing our company-wide events (quarterly multi-day team events, annual offsite).
• HR processes & administration: Handle core HR operations such as payroll preparation and the creation of employment-related documents (contracts, amendments, reference letters).
• Process improvement & new initiatives: Continuously optimize HR processes and policies, and contribute to developing new frameworks (e.g., leadership development, bonus systems, or other people initiatives).

🎉 What Success Looks Like In This Role

• 3 months: You confidently run our full recruitment cycle, from outreach to signing, and are fully familiar with our performance development framework, ensuring a smooth candidate and employee experience.
• 6 months: You have become the trusted go-to person for managers and employees alike, handling topics ranging from admin processes to well-being and performance with confidence.
• 1 year: You own and continuously evolve our people organization at Ingestro. You foster a culture where people feel supported and challenged, and you play a key role in attracting, developing, and retaining talent that aligns with our mission and values.

🔎 What are we looking for?

• Experience: 3+ years in an HR/People & Culture role, ideally in a fast-paced early-stage startup or SaaS environment.
• Hands-on mentality: Comfortable taking ownership of both strategic projects and operational tasks.
• Recruitment expertise: Proven experience in independently managing recruitment processes and identifying the right talent.
• People-focused mindset: Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and support both employees and leadership.
• Communication skills: Fluent in English and German, with the ability to communicate clearly and empathetically.
• Growth orientation: Excited to further develop HR processes and to proactively shape the people & culture function as we grow.
• Location: Based in Hamburg or Berlin, or willing to relocate.