Vice President People (m/w/d)

Vice President People (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 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.