People and Organisation Director

at  komoot

ABOUT KOMOOT

Komoot is an app that lets you find, plan, and share adventures with its easy route planner. Driven by a love for nature and powered by the outdoor community’s recommendations, komoot helps you explore more of the great outdoors—wherever and however you want. And we’re good at it. Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times. Today, with over 35 million users and 300,000 five-star reviews, we are well on our way to becoming the most popular app for finding, planning, and sharing adventures worldwide.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Are you ready to take the helm of the People & Organization Squad, working at the forefront of innovation in the digital workspace? Ready to be a beacon of leadership in a fast growing, remote first, international team ?
Since embracing a fully-remote model in 2017, komoot has scaled from 24 to a vibrant team of 130+ employees spanning over 20 nationalities – all united in their love of helping others explore the outdoors.
In these exciting times of growth, we’re on the lookout for someone with a blend of passion for people, an affinity for technology, a flair for processes, and a sharp strategic mindset. Your goal? To elevate komoot’s appeal to attract the world’s top talent and create an environment where people and teams can thrive and reach their full potential.
We’ve built the foundation of success and are in the middle of a transformation. Here’s a snapshot of our 2023 journey so far:
Successfully transitioned to a fully-fledged people information system (HRIS)
Developed a comprehensive training and development program for our managers
Rolled out our pilot “Growth Path” framework to ensure komoot is a place where everyone can access clear career development
Completed a comprehensive study on the future of compensation and benefits at komoot
Join hands with Rémi, Katy, Nati, Maria, Adel and Rebecca. Together, you’ll accompany komoot through its next phase, ensuring that as we evolve, our engagement remains sky-high, and our culture continues to flourish.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• As our new P&O Director, you will drive our people strategy, set priorities, and research and implement new processes and guidelines to provide a 5-star level of service to our team.
• Lead the People & Organization Squad
• Define and track OKRs with the squad
• Lead squad weekly meetings and define rituals
• Ensure quality of service through monthly and quarterly reporting and suggesting and executing action plans
• Ensure people operation processes across the employee journey are smooth and non-bureaucratic (i.e., equipment, onboarding, mobility requests, salary reviews, farewell, and offboarding)
• Lead the Talent Acquisition function, establish the quarterly roadmap, lead the weekly meetings, define rituals, and level up the processes
• Drive the People & Organization Strategy
• Partner with co-founders to define the P&O yearly strategy and roadmap
• Finalize and implement our new compensation and benefits strategy
• Ensure komoot is a place where everyone can grow
• Measure alignment between people strategy and team news by driving a bi-annual engagement survey and reporting conclusions and actions to stakeholders
• Lead our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts, ensuring distributed responsibility and alignment.
• Lead, support, and grow our Mentor Program
• Learn and elevate our initiatives to onboard, train, and inspire our mentors (people who have managing responsibilities)
• Elevate our mentoring documents and resources to help mentors make good decisions
• Set the curriculum of our knowledge exchange session
• Support in crisis management
• Ensure 5-star people operations
• Assist with compensation reviews, legal, and compliance topics
• Support the P&O Ops team with daily questions (equipment, travel, etc.), and event planning (whole-company Gatherings)
• Drive our culture
• Continue to develop our culture of responsibility, continuous feedback, and open communication

YOU’LL BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE IF YOU

• Have previous experience in a similar role
• Have at least 10 years in Organizational Development / HR / People roles from a successful and forward-thinking company/companies
• Have proven experience with leading a high performing People teams (3+ years)
• Have experienced scaling a company from 150 to 500+ people
• Demonstrate outstanding leadership, emotional intelligence, and communication (both written and oral) to successfully partner with the co-founding team as well as your colleagues throughout Europe
• Are an engaging, comfortable, and authentic public speaker
• Bring domain expertise and have solid generalist HR experience across Europe (including compliance and labor relations)
• Excel at driving and managing multiple projects in parallel and ensuring delivery within time and scope
• Have experience working remotely, are a remote work advocate, and want to leverage this benefit further
• Have experience designing compensation and benefit strategies
• Have experience in leading cultural alignment and engagement activities, reading metrics, and designing action plans
• Bring solid experience in building and up-leveling performance cycles and development plans across the company
• Hold a genuine interest in HR topics, tools, and techniques. You are unafraid to challenge the status quo or make bold strategic decisions. You pragmatically analyze and implement new schemes and concepts if/ when they bring value and make sense
• Have an excellent level of English
  Not sure if you meet all the requirements above? Don’t sweat it – if you think you’re the right person anyway, we’d love to hear from you!