HR Director (Venture Lab) in Deutschland bei Social Discovery Group

Social Discovery Group (https://socialdiscoverygroup.com/about-us)is the world's largest group of social discovery companies which unites more than 50 brands. For more than 20 years, we have been creating premium international dating services and social discovery apps with a focus on video streaming, AI technologies, entertainment, and game mechanics. Our product portfolio includes Dating.com, Cupid Media, Dil Mil, and many others. The products are already used by more than 500 million users in 150 countries around the world.

SDG Invests (https://socialdiscoverygroup.com/investments) in social discovery technology startups around the world. Our Investments (https://socialdiscoverygroup.com/investments) include Open AI, Patreon, Flo, Wildly, RAW, EVA AI, Clubhouse, Magnet, Tubit, Woebot, BamBam, Flure, Astry, Coursera, Academia, Harbour, Space, Auto1, DocSend, AppAnnie, Rapyd, Boom Supersonic, Trading, View, K-Health and many others.

We solve the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection with the help of digital reality.

Our digital nomad team of more than 800 professionals works all over the world. Our international team of like-minded people and professionals solves ambitious daily tasks and creates truly global products. We value focusing on results, proactive approach, and we are always looking for new and unconventional ideas.

Our teams of digital nomads live and work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia, Poland, Israel, Türkiye, Latvia and many others.

Currently, we are looking for an HR Directorto strengthen our HR team. As an HR Business Partner for our company, you will play a pivotal role as a mature and autonomous leader within the HR team. Your area of responsibility will be one of the company's key business units - Our Investment Products. You will have a full HRD authority for the business unit and will work closely with the head of your business unit to help achieve its goals.

Goals:

Attract product managers and key employees to the Product Startup Laboratory (founders, startupers, CEO)
Responsible for culture and employee integration of the Product Startup Lab

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the effectiveness of the personnel within the business unit, ensuring that employees contribute to achieving the company's strategic goals and financial targets.
• Manage staffing, ensuring the business unit has the right number of people who have successfully completed their probationary period and meet the company's satisfaction.
• Foster employee engagement and retention, creating a work environment where employees are motivated and committed to staying with the company and taking on new responsibilities.
• Implement and enforce HR processes within the business unit, ensuring compliance with company policies and regulations.
• Monitor and measure the satisfaction of managers and employees of the business unit with the HR function.

Successful candidate::

• Has experience working in VC funds/start-up incubators as an HR Head/Lead, gaining a wide active network in a field of B2C tech founders and entrepreneurs
• A strong leader capable of being an HR leader for founders and startupers
• Fluent English on a C2 (bilingual level), Russian (nice-to-have)
• Has the skills to build a network, takes part in professional startup conferences
• Able to implement and ensure the execution of basic employee lifecycle HR processes: hiring, onboarding, training and development, succession planning, termination, performance evaluation, etc.
• Able to manage the budget for salaries and benefits, turnover, employee engagement and loyalty, and provide measurable examples of the impat on these indicators.
• Has an experience as a people manager with direct reports (junior HR managers will report to this position).
• Has experience in coaching managers in direct reports or in the area of responsibility.
• A problem solver able to take responsibility.
• Motivated by development, achievement, and ideas, rather than material or process-driven incentives.
• Highly persistent, does not give up easily, and knows how to achieve results.
• Goal-oriented, thinks in terms of numbers, facts, and figures.
• Highly stress-resistant and able to work in situations of uncertainty and multitasking.

Why choose us?

• This is an international project for a globally-minded product and that entails ambitious and unconventional tasks;
• You will obtain experience with the latest technologies and be able to contribute to creating internal solutions;
• You will work in an environment where in