People & Talent Business Partner

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Senior · 6+ years

Job description

People & Talent Business Partner at Matomo, partnering with leaders and employees globally (focus on Germany and France) on HR business partnering, performance and culture, change management, employment relations and talent acquisition.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
Remote
Languages
German – professional working proficiency, English – strong written and spoken
Pay
EUR 70,000 – 72,000 / year

What you'll do

  • Partner with leaders across Europe and globally, providing practical, commercially sound advice on people, performance and organisational matters.
  • Drive strong performance management practices, support leaders in addressing underperformance and help embed a culture of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement.
  • Support organisational transformation, consultation and employee transitions, helping leaders navigate difficult conversations and bring clarity during periods of uncertainty.
  • Manage employee relations and employment compliance, with strong ownership of German employment law and support for France and other regions through local specialists where required.
  • Lead end-to-end recruitment across the business, including proactive sourcing, assessment and hiring for critical roles, particularly across engineering and product.
  • Improve people processes, onboarding, employee experience and workforce planning to support a high-performing, globally distributed organisation.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of experience in HR business partnering, people operations or a similar role, ideally within a technology or international business.
  • Strong practical knowledge of German employment law, including employee relations, performance management, organisational change and employment processes.
  • Proven experience supporting leaders through change, uncertainty, organisational transformation and challenging people decisions.
  • A strong understanding of high-performance cultures, with experience helping managers build accountability, address underperformance and develop their teams.
  • Hands-on talent acquisition experience, including direct sourcing and end-to-end recruitment.
  • Professional working proficiency in German and strong written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate clearly in a global, asynchronous environment.
  • A strong record of taking ownership, exercising sound judgement and delivering measurable outcomes.

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of French employment law, French language skills and experience supporting employees in France.
  • Experience recruiting technical talent, particularly software engineers and product engineers.
  • Experience in SaaS, high-growth technology or globally distributed, remote-first organisations.

Your team

People & Culture

Reporting to the Chief People Officer

Benefits

  • 100% remote working within your country of employment
  • Flexible working hours, within the collaboration and coverage requirements of the role
  • 30 days Paid annual leave
  • Home-office equipment allowance
  • Health insurance support, where applicable
  • Mental-health and wellbeing support
  • Paid volunteering day
  • Pet bereavement leave
  • No-meeting Fridays
  • No more than two days each week with late meetings
  • No meetings after 10pm in any time zone

How to get hired

  1. 1Application
  2. 2Screening
  3. 3People & Culture interview
  4. 4Team interview
  5. 5Take-home exercise
  6. 6Final interview

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About InnoCraft

Help build the open future of digital intelligence

Born from open source and backed by a global community, Matomo helps organisations understand their users and digital performance without surrendering ownership, privacy or control of their data.

Mission

We believe everyone has the right to data sovereignty, privacy and trusted analytics insights.

Key facts

  • Digital analytics
  • Trading as Matomo
  • Matomo is used on more than one million websites across 190 countries
  • Supports leading brands, national governments, universities and organisations in regulated industries
  • Intentionally lean, globally distributed and backed by a worldwide open-source community

What they value

  • Ownership
  • Strong judgement
  • High performance
  • Accountability
  • Data privacy
  • Diversity and inclusion