Senior People Partner (f/m/d)

Upvest GmbH

Job Overview

Location

Berlin

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a Senior People Partner at Upvest GmbH, you will serve as a strategic HR advisor to business leaders, aligning people strategy with company objectives to drive organizational effectiveness in a fast-growing fintech environment. Your role is critical in shaping talent systems that support Upvest’s mission to democratize investing across Europe.
• You will partner with leadership to design and implement scalable people initiatives, including performance management, career frameworks, leadership development, and compensation structures, ensuring they are data-informed, compliant, and culturally aligned.
• Day to day, you will act as a strategic partner to the business, aligning people initiatives with overall company objectives by understanding departmental goals and translating them into HR strategies.
• You will manage the end-to-end performance appraisal system, linking people performance directly to business outcomes, acting as the internal expert on performance management and ensuring fairness, transparency, and consistency across reviews.
• You will drive leadership excellence by designing and implementing leadership development programs that scale with the business, fostering a vibrant Leadership Community to promote peer-to-peer learning and alignment across the organisation.
• You will lead the evolution of our job architecture and career frameworks, ensuring every Upvenger has a clear, transparent path for progression and skill development through structured leveling and competency models.
• You will lead salary benchmarking initiatives and the creation of scalable salary bands to ensure competitive compensation, using market data to maintain equity and attract top talent.
• You will adopt a consultative approach to partner with leadership on organisational design, workforce planning, and talent challenges, providing insights on structure, headcount planning, and skill gaps.
• You will utilise a data-driven approach to analyse organisational health and develop targeted interventions for continuous improvement, leveraging people analytics to identify trends and measure impact.
• You will ensure compliance and provide guidance on employment relations and employment law matters across Germany, the UK, and Europe, staying current with regional regulations and advising managers accordingly.
• About the team or company: Upvest is a mission-driven fintech founded in 2017, empowering businesses to offer investment products through its scalable Investment API, backed by €280M from top-tier investors including BlackRock and Tencent, and serving clients like Revolut, N26, and DKB.
• The company brings together over 270 professionals from more than 70 nationalities, fostering a diverse, inclusive culture where innovation and ownership are valued, and employees are encouraged to rise to challenges and tell their story.
• What the person can learn or achieve in this role: You will gain deep experience in building and scaling HR systems in a high-growth, international fintech environment, mastering the integration of people strategy with business outcomes.
• You will have the opportunity to shape leadership culture and career progression frameworks that impact hundreds of employees across multiple European hubs, leaving a lasting legacy on organizational design and talent mobility.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior People Partner or HR Business Partner in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Expertise in performance management, with a track record of managing complex appraisal systems end-to-end.
• Extensive experience building and implementing Career Frameworks and Job Levels in a high-growth or scaling environment.
• Deep knowledge of salary benchmarking methodologies and experience building structured salary bands.
• Proven experience in building leadership frameworks and nurturing a collaborative leadership culture, moving beyond traditional training to create sustainable communities of practice.
• Strong command of German employment landscape, with additional knowledge of UK and European regulations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Impact-driven work: Building the infrastructure that will power the future of investing in Europe with modern technologies and no legacy systems.
• Wellbeing: 30 days of annual leave, sports benefits, confidential professional coaching, and the flexibility to work remotely abroad for up to 183 days a year, plus UpRest—a one-month fully paid sabbatical after every 4 years.
• Development: Personal development budget with freedom to decide how to use it, supporting continuous growth.
• Flexible work environment: Option to work from hubs in Berlin, London, or Tallinn, or remotely across Europe, with choice and budget to work where most productive.
• Compensation and equity: Competitive, above-market salary and participation in the employee equity program.
• Team celebrations: Company-wide events like UpFest, dinners, offsites, and Holiday party to connect and celebrate achievements.
• Inclusion: Commitment to belonging through Employee Resources Groups such as Upfem and UpVergent supporting neurodivergent employees and allies.

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About Upvest GmbH

Upvest GmbH provides a set of APIs that enable fintechs, banks and wealth managers to embed investment capabilities into their applications. The Berlin-based company offers infrastructure for fractional shares, ETFs, crypto and other assets, handling trading, custody, settlement and regulatory compliance. Customers can launch brokerage or robo-advisor products without building their own broker-dealer, reducing time-to-market and operational overhead. Upvest holds BaFin licences for proprietary trading, investment brokerage and crypto custody, serving clients across Europe.

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