Location: Berlin.
As the People and Culture Manager at Ostrom, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our people strategy and fostering a culture where employees can thrive. Reporting directly to the Founding team, you will be the go-to person for all employee-related matters, collaborating with leadership, overseeing talent management, and ensuring smooth people operations. Being voted a Top Employer in Berlin by Tagesspiegel in 2024, we want to continue fostering and co-creating a work environment that people are proud to be a part of, making Ostrom an employer of choice.
We’re a fast-paced, dynamic startup where you’ll thrive if you’re adaptable, resourceful, and self-driven. We’re constantly figuring a lot of things out and improving our processes, so if you’re comfortable with being a self-starter, love solving challenges, and can drive projects forward independently while collaborating across teams, you’ll fit right in.
Energy. Just Better.
We are on the mission to build Europe’s leading energy management platform to provide fair, clean energy to everyone.
We’re a diverse team of 46+, with 50% being female and from 14+ nationalities, and steadily growing. With having raised a total of €22.5 M, we are looking for passionate people to join us on our mission!
What you'll be keeping busy with
Recruitment (60% - 80%)
- Own end-to-end hiring and recruitment, ensuring an efficient time-to-hire and a seamless candidate experience by:
- Partnering with managers on role definition and workforce planning.
- Actively sourcing senior and hard-to-fill roles.
- Leading first-round interviews.
- Overseeing a smooth onboarding process.
People Management (40% - 20%)
- Act as a trusted advisor to managers, providing coaching on leadership, team development, and performance while driving engagement, well-being, and DEI initiatives.
- Own and refine HR policies, processes, and compliance, ensuring a seamless employee experience while overseeing contracts, payroll, benefits, and labor law compliance.
- Plan and organize two company-wide events annually, various workshops, performance reviews, and career development frameworks.
Your profile:
- 1+ years of experience in an HR or People & Culture role, within a fast-paced startup and/or scale up environment or similar.
- Strong generalist background with experience across recruitment, employee relations, engagement, and people operations.
- Ability to coach managers and employees through complex challenges and initiate difficult conversations with a solution-oriented mindset.
- Solid understanding of labor laws and compliance requirements.
- Highly organized, able to manage multiple priorities, and work independently.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with having min C1 English and B2 German.
- Based in Berlin or willing to relocate, we operate under a hybrid model and do not have required office days but the nature of this role does require being in the office at times for general employee matters.
Nice to have:
- Experience scaling HR processes in a growing company.
- Experience using Personio.
Why us?
- Environmental Impact: Each customer who switches to Ostrom on average helps offset 1.5 tons of CO2 emissions per year compared to the average German energy mix.
- Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work model. You choose where you want to work and have an office in Berlin, Mitte.
- Stock options: On top of offering a competitive salary you will have access to company shares to ensure you can truly be part of the journey.
- Relocation package: We won't let distance get in the way, we offer visa and relocation support.
- Trust-based Team: A truly flat hierarchy and transparent company culture, where everyone’s voice matters.
- Benefits: An annual learning budget, company-pension scheme, company events, discounted gym membership, public transport ticket, e-Bike or e-Moped, Futurebens or monthly vouchers - the choice is yours.
About us
As the fastest growing green and digital Certified B Corp™ energy provider in Germany, we are driving the energy transition making renewable energy more accessible and inclusive. We do this by offering variable tariffs, dynamic pricing, Smart EV Charging, smart HVAC, solar, and more!
At Ostrom you will work in a dynamic and open environment, where you have space to be yourself, take on challenges, and grow.
- Be in the know: Open and transparent communication, from our weekly town hall, quarterly company-updates, to retrospectives. Share your ideas — feedback goes both ways!
- Collaboration and connection: Success is shared and collaboration gets us there. Success is also best celebrated together! So join in on our Friday happy-hour, team and company events.
- You do you: Flexibility ensures everyone can work where is best for them. Office goer? Awesome. Working from home? Awesome. Working from Sardinia? Jealous.
- Try it: Our mindset is we are learning together, with personalized development pathways, learning budgets, and company-wide knowledge sharing sessions. Give it a go and learn along the way.
