Senior People and Culture Manager

The role

This senior individual contributor role builds and runs the people function for an AI startup. You will support company growth through recruiting, onboarding, culture, and HR operations.

What you will do

• Own recruiting operations including hiring strategy, sourcing, screening, pipeline management, and hiring process design
• Design and deliver onboarding programs for new employees
• Build people processes, policies, and frameworks
• Develop employer branding and recruitment marketing
• Support employee engagement, retention, and a high-performance culture
• Manage HR administration and address compliance with German labor law

Required qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in people or HR roles
• 3 or more years building or leading a people function at an early-stage startup or in a comparable high-growth environment
• Experience independently owning the people function as a senior individual contributor without direct reports
• Strong end-to-end recruiting expertise
• Experience building onboarding, HR operations, and people processes during rapid growth
• Experience with employer branding, recruitment marketing, employee engagement, and culture initiatives
• Knowledge of German labor law and employment practices, or willingness to rapidly build expertise with legal support
• Proficiency with HR information systems, applicant tracking systems, and HR administration tools
• Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment with demanding expectations and ambiguity

About the company

clera is a fast-growing AI startup.