People Operations Manager (m/f/d) | Legal AI Tech Scale-up | Full Remote (Germany)

Permanent employee, Full or part-time · Berlin

Our offer for you

At Noxtua, you will own and scale our core People Operations across multiple European countries, ensuring that payroll, compliance, and HR processes run smoothly and reliably. You will work hands-on on everything from preparatory payroll and contracts to people analytics and policies, giving you a direct impact on the employee experience and the stability of a fast-growing Legal AI company. The position is available both part-time and full-time.

YOUR TEAM 

 You will join a small, fast‑paced HR team where you will work closely with our Director People & Culture and an interim recruiter.  You will collaborate in an environment that values pragmatism, transparency, service orientation, and a communication style defined by being “hard on the issue, soft in tone.”  

OUR TOOLS 

• HRIS: Personio

• AI Assistance: e. g. , Copilot

• Collaboration: Slack, MS Teams, Miro, Confluence& Jira

  
  

BENEFITS 

• Flexible working hours

• 26 vacation days + December 24th & 31st off

• +1 additional vacation day per year of employment (up to 30 days)

• 100% remote work within Germany

• €1,000 home office setup budget (paid with your first salary)

• Laptop (Lenovo or Mac)

• Urban Sports Club & other employee discounts depending on location 

• Unlimited contract

  
  

Your responsibilities

• Payroll preparation: Coordinate multi-country payroll preparation with tax advisors across Germany, Croatia, Slovakia, Austria, and France. 

• Handle employee onboarding, offboarding, registrations, deregistrations, social security, health insurance, and permits. 

• Contracts, Documents & Policies: Draft and manage employment contracts with Legal and external experts across multiple EU countries. 

• Prepare certificates, confirmations, and reference letters for employees and authorities. 

• HR-Tools, Automation & Compliance: Maintain HR systems, automate workflows, ensure GDPR, labor law, and compliance standards. 

• Maintain and update HR policies, ensuring compliance with data protection, working time, and safety requirements. 

• Employee Support: Support employees on HR topics and reduce workload through process optimization and documentation. 

• People Analytics: Build and report People KPIs, including sickness rates, retention, and leadership capacity insights. 

  
  

About you

• Experience: 3+ years in People Operations / HR Operations in a startup or scale-up. 

• Hands-on experience with preparatory payroll in Germany and ideally additional European countries.

• Proven experience working with international teams and external payroll/tax providers. 

• Experience in setting up and running People KPIs, HR analyses, and management reports. 

• Practical knowledge in: German labor law, social security topics, and data protection (GDPR). 

• Confident working with HR systems (ideally Personio) and comfortable owning HR master data and tool configurations. 

• Language: Fluent in English (C2) and German (C2), French is a plus 

• Personality: service-oriented, and “hard on the issue, soft in tone.” 

  
  

 NICE TO HAVE 

• Experience with AI agents, automation, or workflow tools for HR/People Operations. 

• Experience rolling out or significantly improving HR systems (e.g., Personio) across multiple countries. 

• Experience with information security/compliance frameworks  

• Experience collaborating closely with Finance/Controlling on HR cost forecasting and headcount planning. 

About us

Noxtua is Europe’s sovereign Legal AI. This legally competent AI covers the entire spectrum of legal text work – from information gathering (research) and analysis of complex issues (understanding) to document creation (drafting). The legally compliant AI meets the professional, criminal, and data protection requirements for lawyers (e.g., Section 203 German Criminal Code, Section 43e German Federal Code for Lawyers), is certified according to BSI C5, TISAX, ISO 27001, 9001, 27018, 27017, and 42001. The tech company Noxtua has formed exclusive partnerships with leading European publishing houses from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia for the Legal AI Workspaces Beck-Noxtua, MANZ-Noxtua, Swiss-Noxtua, Beck-Noxtua Poland, Beck-Noxtua Czech Republic, and Beck-Noxtua Slovakia.

Founded in 2017 in the German capital as a result of a research project by Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk and Professor Dr. Michael Huth at Oxford University and Imperial College London, the European legal tech company has many years of experience in developing GDPR-compliant AI solutions and now has offices in Paris, Berlin, Zagreb, and Munich. Strategic partners, including Germany’s leading legal publisher C.H.BECK as well as the leading law firms CMS and Dentons, have invested around 81 million EURO in the European scale-up as part of its Series B.

We explicitly encourage women to apply, as they are currently underrepresented. Our goal is to build a diverse and inclusive work environment that values different perspectives. Of course, we welcome applications from all qualified individuals – regardless of gender, ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, or sexual identity.