# People Partner

**Company**: Black Forest Labs
**Location**: Freiburg
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €100,000 - €130,000 + Equity
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

You'll be joining Black Forest Labs as a People Partner, working closely with the Head of People and the existing EU People team member. Your role will involve balancing People Partnering and People Operations, with a focus on partnering as the team grows.

## Responsibilities

### People Partnering

- Serve as a key People Partner for EU-based managers and employees, providing support across performance, team effectiveness, and organisational design.

- Coach and develop managers across the org, building leadership capability as we scale.

- Own compensation strategy inputs and lead key employee lifecycle moments, performance cycles, promotions, difficult conversations.

- Lead employee relations matters in the EU with sound judgement and solid knowledge of German employment law; know when to escalate to external counsel.

- Be a trusted presence at HQ, the person leaders come to before a situation becomes a problem.

### People Operations

- Set the standard for people ops quality in Europe; not doing everything yourself, but ensuring it's done well.

- Provide guidance to our EU Ops and People Partner, supporting their development and ensuring execution quality.

- Use data, tooling and AI to make People Ops smooth and scalable, spot inefficiencies and fix them.

- Own your portion of the People roadmap, from design through to delivery.

## Requirements

- 7+ years of experience in People, Operations, Consulting, Programme Management, or a related field; with meaningful HR exposure and a genuine interest in building the people function.

- Experience working in tech; deep tech (AI, infrastructure, developer tooling, fintech, or similar).

- Must have startup or scale-up experience, you know what it feels like to build, and seek out opportunities to build new processes or significantly improving existing processes.

- Comfortable moving between strategic thinking and hands-on execution.

- Strong coaching instincts with the credibility to influence senior stakeholders.

- Strong communication skills with fluency in German and English.

## Nice to Have

- Formal HR qualification.

- Prior experience as founding or lead People hire in an early-stage or scaling environment.

- Working knowledge of German employment law.

- Exposure to cross-border or multi-entity employment in Europe.

- Coaching qualification or structured leadership development experience.

## What We Offer

- Base Annual Salary: €100,000 - €130,000 + Equity.

- A distributed team with real offices that people actually use.

- Everything we do is grounded in four values: Obsessed, Low Ego, Bold, and Kind.

## Skills

### Required
- HR
- Operations
- Consulting
- Programme Management
- German employment law
- Coaching
- Leadership development
- Communication

### Nice to have
- Formal HR qualification
- Prior experience as founding or lead People hire
- Working knowledge of German employment law
- Exposure to cross-border or multi-entity employment in Europe
- Coaching qualification or structured leadership development experience

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