Global People & Culture (f/m/d) - Fintech Startup

Cherry Ventures is supporting our portfolio with this hire

Reporting into Founder/CEO | Based in Berlin (4+ days in office) 

Moss is scaling from EUR 50mn→100mn ARR and 300→400 FTEs in 2026. We’re hiring an experienced People leader to take Moss’ talent density and performance culture to the next level. Your mission? Build one of the most talent-dense, high-performing teams in Europe. 

What you’ll own 

1) Talent & Hiring Engine (together with the Head of Talent Acquisition + 7 FTEs) 

• Workforce planning: Own org design & headcount planning to keep us lean as we scale. 
• Talent density & quality: Bring in world-class talent and keep our talent bar high. 
• Hiring velocity: Drive top-of-funnel and process metrics to ensure we hit our headcount plan. 
• Exec hiring & succession: Run leadership searches and ensure succession for critical roles. 

2) High-Performance Everything (together with the People Solutions team of 1-2 FTEs, both to hire) 

• Culture: Codify culture with our founders, embed our values/behaviors across Moss, and be the face of our company culture within and outside of Moss. 
• Performance & talent frameworks: Own performance and progression processes incl. biannual promotion/comp and feedback cycles, a top-talent program, regular talent mapping.
• Compensation: Own our comp strategy and bands across cash, VSOP, benefits, incentives.
• Attrition/retention: Minimize unwanted attrition while executing fair, fast exits when needed.
• BPing & leadership development: Coach, train, and spar with managers. Business partner with them to drive better decision making on a wide range of people topics within their teams.
• Engagement: Run surveys and conduct stay interviews to track sentiment and churn risk.
• Change management: Plan, communicate, and embed change (change =constant at Moss!). 

3) Operational Excellence (with the Head of People Ops + 1 FTE, plus 2 Office Managers) 

• Flawless ops: Ensure that onboarding, offboarding, payroll, etc. “just work”; that people data is clean and accessible; and that employee requests are responded to swiftly.
• Automation & scale: Keep ops lean across entities/geos, leveraging AI and our tooling stack.
• Risk & compliance: Keep us compliant and audit-ready without slowing the business down.
• Offices & events: Lead the team that manages our office portfolio and day-to-day ops, organizes company events, and enforces our T&E policies. 

About you 

• You have 5+ years’ experience leading People functions in high growth startups (100+ FTEs)
• You’re a generalist who’s led lean, high performing teams in the People functions listed above
• You’ve implemented best-in-class frameworks across e.g., performance, comp, progression 
• You are comfortable in a global role and with labor law across multiple EU geographies
• You’re a player-coach (must have!): you’re hands-on and own your own workstreams
• You have a bias for speed and prefer lean startup-like processes to big-company programs
• You’re data-driven and like to run People like a product (KPIs, MVPs, sprints)
• You are an inspiring guide, mentor and coach for your team – both managers and ICs
• You thrive in a high candor/high accountability environment and enjoy working with founders
• You’re unfazed by a high performance bar, face pace, and frequent change 
• You are a low-ego sparring partner: you like to challenge/be challenged by leadership 

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