About Us
At Upvest, we are on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. Upvest empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products and the best experience in the field of capital market investment and retirement planning. Upvest’s Investment API is easy to integrate so that fintechs and financial institutions can save resources and fully focus on their core business.
We are proud to partner with Europe’s leading Fintechs and financial institutions such as DKB, Revolut, N26 and Raisin. Founded in 2017 by Martin Kassing, Upvest now brings together over 270 talented professionals from more than 70 nationalities. We’re backed by world-class investors such as Hedosophia, Sapphire, Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Notion Capital, and Motive Ventures.
Your Role
As our People Operations Lead, you will lead a small team that will ensure our people processes—from onboarding to offboarding—are compliant across our hubs in Germany, Estonia, and the UK and are also operationally excellent. You will actively seek to automate manual tasks and leverage AI to enhance decision-making and service delivery, allowing the People team to focus on what matters most: our People.
What you bring:
- Multi-Hub Expertise: Extensive experience managing People Operations across numerous hubs. German experience essential, UK preferred. You hold a deep understanding of local labor laws, payroll nuances, and social security requirements. You will also be familiar with partnering with EORs for remote employee operations.
- Leadership: Proven experience in people management, with a passion for mentoring, developing, and empowering a high-performing People Ops team. You know how to lead through change and foster a culture of high ownership.
- Bilingual Proficiency: Professional fluency in both German and English is essential to navigate legal documentation and support our diverse team.
- Automation Mindset: A proven track record of moving away from manual processing toward automated workflows and self-service models.
- AI Enablement: Experience (or a strong, demonstrable interest) in implementing AI-driven tools for HR, such as predictive analytics, AI chatbots for FAQs, or automated document generation.
- Data-Driven Approach: Use of metrics to identify bottlenecks and improve the employee lifecycle. Familiarity with HiBob and Looker would be a plus.
- Scalability Focus: Experience working in a fast-paced high-growth startup where you have successfully scaled processes.
- Operational Excellence: An obsession with detail and a "Make it easy for others" attitude, ensuring that compliance never comes at the cost of a great employee experience.
How we Upvest in you:
- Impact-driven work: We’re building the infrastructure that will power the future of investing in Europe. It’s complex, ambitious, and meaningful. You’ll work with modern technologies and create something entirely new. No legacy systems, no limits.
- Wellbeing: Recharge with 30 days of annual leave and maintain a healthy lifestyle with sports benefits. Access confidential professional coaching and enjoy the flexibility to work remotely abroad for up to 183 days a year. Recharge with UpRest, a one-month fully paid sabbatical after every 4 years of working at Upvest.
- Development: Growth is in our DNA. Each Upvenger has access to a personal development budget and the freedom to decide how to use it.
- Flexible work environment: Work from any of our hubs in Berlin, London or Tallinn hybrid or remotely across Europe, depending on the role. We give you the choice and budget to work where you’re most comfortable and productive, either at home or in the office. You choose.
- Compensation and equity: We believe that all Upvengers contribute to our success and deserve a competitive, above-market salary and a participation in our employee equity program.
- Team celebrations: Participate in company-wide events, such as UpFest, dinners, offsites and our Holiday party, to connect with colleagues and celebrate our achievements.
- Inclusion: We’re committed to a culture where everyone belongs and thrives. Our Employee Resources Groups foster inclusion and connection, like Upfem for our female Upvengers, or UpVergent supporting neurodivergent Upvengers and allies.
Our Values:
- Make it easy for others. We simplify the complex and act with the best intentions.
- Own the outcome. We are proactive, fast and confident to get the job done, valuing progress over perfection.
- Rise to the challenge. We aim high and push the boundaries. We stay curious, learn and celebrate our wins together.
- Tell the story. We start with the Why to align on purpose. We are transparent and share knowledge to empower and inspire others.
Upvest is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
