Vice President People & Culture (m/w/d)

Vice President People & Culture (m/w/d) | Fulltime | Remote

vialytics is a fast-growing SaaS company with a clear mission: to make cities and communities around the world smarter, safer, and more liveable. With our unique approach to infrastructure management, we've built a solution that sets benchmarks globally — and we're today recognised as one of the most exciting scale-ups in the GovTech space.

Over the past few years, we have consistently doubled our business, successfully entered international markets, and laid a strong foundation for what's ahead. With teams in Germany, France, and the USA, we are now entering our next phase of growth: accelerating our expansion, taking our product to the next level, and building an organisation that is scalable, efficient, and culturally strong — one where ambitious teams create real impact every single day.

The Role

As Vice President People & Culture at vialytics, you take on a pivotal role within the leadership team. Your mandate is to build a scalable, international organisation in which our teams can reach their full potential, through clear structures, efficient collaboration, and greater impact in everything we do.

You are the architect of our organisation, a coach for our leaders, and a driver of a culture that puts clarity, ownership, and performance front and centre.

Your Responsibilities

Strategy & Transformation

• Scaling & Expansion: Developing a global People strategy and optimising admin and People processes to successfully enter international markets and stay ahead of growing pains.

• Data-Driven Organisational Design & Efficiency : Designing clear structures, processes, and role models that enable speed, impact, and sustainable growth. Through KPI-based working and predictive analytics, you identify and proactively shape future trends and challenges in People & Culture before they arise.

• Culture & Performance : Evolving a high-performance culture that fosters focus, trust, and accountability — with clear structures that ensure performance and shared growth.

• Business Enabler : Sparring partner to the CEO and Executive Team — you turn People & Culture into a genuine growth driver.

Talent & Brand

• Recruiting & Employer Branding: Scaling and professionalising our recruiting process into a repeatable system that continuously attracts top international talent — efficient, quality-driven, and with an outstanding candidate experience. You also advance our employer brand in existing and new markets, in close collaboration with Marketing and Leadership.

Leadership & Development

• Leadership Development: Coaching and empowering our leaders to embed accountability, ambition, and excellence across the entire organisation.

• People & Organisational Development : Developing scalable career paths, performance frameworks, and leadership programmes for sustainable growth.

• Compensation & Benefits : Evolving a scalable, fair, and market-competitive compensation and benefits strategy, including salary bands, bonus structures, and equity models.

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion : Fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable work environment as the foundation for international expansion.

Systeme, Data, Compliance & Processes

• Compliance & Legal: Ensuring adherence to employment law across all markets and working closely with Legal.

• Operational HR Management: Owning core HR processes such as onboarding, feedback cycles, and the evolution of our bonus models. You create efficient standards across the employee lifecycle and sustainably strengthen our People experience.

Your Profile

• You bring several years of experience in a senior People/HR leadership role within a high-performance tech, SaaS, or AI company in Germany.

• You have successfully scaled organisations from >100 to several hundred employees, ideally across international markets.

• You have built and/or developed tech organisations, establishing clear structures, accountabilities, and scalable processes — from discovery to delivery, with measurable steering.

• You combine strong People excellence with sharp business acumen and make sound decisions even in challenging situations.

• You lead with clarity, set priorities, and get things done — hands-on and with real impact.

• You communicate clearly and effectively in English (German and/or French is a plus).

What You Also Bring

• Solid expertise in recruiting, organisational design, leadership development, compensation & benefits, talent strategy, and culture building.

• You work in a structured, data-driven way, for example with OKRs, People Analytics, and scalable HR/People processes.

• Experience with employer branding, DEI, succession planning, and employee retention.

• Confident working with modern HR tools (e.g. Teamtailor, HiBob) and the automation of People processes.

What you can expect

• Direct Impact: The opportunity to actively shape one of Europe's most exciting SaaS stories — in a key role with direct influence on the future of vialytics.

• Leadership Responsibility: Functional and disciplinary leadership of an international People and Operations team of 10 heads.

• C-Level Proximity: Close collaboration with our leadership team, which leads with fairness, openness, and positive intent — always in the interest of our people and the company.

• A Strong Team: An international, ambitious vialytics team with a real hunger for growth and genuine enthusiasm for what we do.

• Our Culture: A company culture that lives its values: We are open. We are appreciative. We are up for it.

• Flexible Working: Modern equipment, working hours that fit your life, and the option to work hybrid or remotely.

• Growth: Space for personal development through coaching, conferences, and leadership development programmes.

• An Attractive Package: A compensation package that reflects your responsibility and your impact.