People Lead (Berlin, hybrid)

Our hybrid working culture includes three office days per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) at our Berlin headquarters. Looking ahead, we're also growing London as our second location.

A little about us

• Redefining graphic design: Kittl is transforming how creators work with an intuitive platform that stands as a modern, competitive alternative to traditional design tools: Build the new Adobe of tomorrow
• Rapid growth: Millions of users within just two years of launch
• Diverse team: 120 team members representing 30 different countries
• Truly product-led company: Engineers, Product managers and designers are at the core of Kittl - shaping an engineering driven working culture
• Strong funding: Raised over $45M from world-renowned investors who have also backed companies like Slack, Dropbox, and Figma

Learn more: ++www.kittl.com/career++

Your role at Kittl

We're hiring a thoughtful, driven People Lead to help make Kittl a place where people do their best work. You'll own the systems and processes that shape the employee experience—onboarding, engagement, HR operations—and partner with leadership to build a high-performance, high-care culture as we scale. If you're passionate about creating an environment where people feel supported and empowered, this role is for you.

What you'll do

• Own & improve: Take full ownership of people operations processes --- onboarding, offboarding, benefits, HR operations, and performance cycles --- and continuously optimize them
• Support & partner: Act as the primary partner for employees, offering timely guidance and ensuring a consistent, values-aligned experience across countries and time zones
• Drive engagement: Track employee engagement and collaborate with leadership to strengthen the overall employee experience
• Maintain & ensure compliance: Evolve HR systems and documentation to ensure accuracy, compliance, and ease of use
• Hire top talent: Lead and oversee recruiting efforts, ensuring a smooth, efficient hiring process across teams while collaborating closely with hiring managers
• Lead & mentor: Support, guide, and develop the People team, ensuring clarity, growth, and high performance

What you'll need

• Experience: 5 years in people operations, HR, or employee experience, ideally in a fast-growing tech environment with the ability to build and adapt processes for scale
• Operational expertise: Strong knowledge of HR processes, best practices, and multi-country HR operations
• Team leadership: Proven ability to build, lead, and develop high-performing teams
• Empathy & judgment: A high level of emotional intelligence, discretion, and trustworthiness---people feel safe coming to you
• Global collaboration: Comfortable working across geographies, cultures, and time zones in remote and hybrid environments
• Precision & structure: Detail-oriented and process-driven, able to manage systems, timelines, and multiple priorities with ease

We are looking for someone

• Exceptionally driven to drive impact and challenge the status quo
• Who takes extreme ownership & gets things done
• Who goes above and beyond in their role

Interview process

• Recruiter interview (30 min)
• Hiring manager interview (45 min)
• Take home challenge
• Challenge presentation (45min)
• Bar raiser interview with CEO (30 min)

Benefits

• Maximise your impact: No matter if you're leading a team or you stand out by your domain expertise - all we care about is supporting you to maximise your own impact
• Hackathons: Our quarterly hackathons provide an environment to experiment with new concepts, push boundaries, and potentially deliver the next big thing
• Kittl Week: Each year, our global team gathers together for a whole week, to work, celebrate, get inspired, and have fun
• Flexible working hours: Our core hours are 11am--5pm CET, leaving the rest of your schedule flexible to fit your style
• Remote work: Work up to 50 days (10 weeks) fully remote per year from anywhere in the world, as long as you maintain our core hours
• Learning & development: Our L&D budget supports your professional growth
• Mobility benefit: We fully cover your monthly BVG public transport ticket
• Health and fitness: Urban Sports Club membership discount
• Vacation: Up to 30 vacation days per year

🌈At Kittl, we embrace diversity and value every team member's unique background, identity, and experience. We're all about respect, honesty, and inclusivity. Together, we create a safe and supportive work environment where everyone thrives. Join us on this exciting journey of making our company and product even better!