Ops Manager: HR, Payroll & Compliance Lead

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

The What: As our People Operations Partner, you are the backbone of our HR operations. You ensure that our employees are supported throughout their entire lifecycle – professionally, compliantly and with empathy. From payroll and contracts to policies and offboarding, you combine legal accuracy with a pragmatic, hands-on approach and a strong focus on scalable processes.

The Why: As we grow and expand internationally, our people operations are becoming more complex. This role ensures compliant, reliable, and scalable People operations, creates a consistent employee experience, and brings structure and clarity to our processes—while freeing up leadership to focus on growing the business.

• Ownership of payroll operations(Germany and international) in collaboration with external providers

• Drafting, managing and maintaining employment contracts and accordingly the documentation

• Ensuring compliance with German labor law, social security and regulations

• Managing all aspects of the employee lifecycle (onboarding, offboarding, leave management, employee inquiries and benefits administration)

• Maintaining and continuously improving the employee handbookand People operations policies

• Supporting visa, relocation and international People operations topics

• Supporting, coordinating and managinginternal events and people initiatives

• Maintaining People operations data, reports and systems (e.g. Personio)

• Proactively identifying opportunities for process optimization, automation and smart tooling

• At least two years of experience inPeople Operations / HR Operations / HR Generalist roles

• Strong knowledge ofGerman labor and social security law

• Hands-on mindsetand comfort in a broad, end-to-end People operations role

• High attention to detail, reliability and ownership mentality

• Service-oriented, supportive and solution-driven approach

• Experience in fast-paced environments (startup / scale-up) is a plus

• Familiarity with HRIS systems (e.g. Personio) and interest in automation & AI

• Fluent in German and English (both C-level)

• Personal responsibility & creative freedom:You actively contribute to the further development of our production technologies.
• Flexible working hours & mobile working:Work-life balance is not an empty promise with us. Choose up to 2 remote working days and you can choose between our locations (Garching or Taufkirchen). Part-time is possible (at least 4 days per week and at least 25hours per week possible)
• Start-up spirit meets aerospace: flat hierarchies, short decision-making processes and room for innovation.
• Individual benefits:Choose between the Deutschland Ticket, Egym-Wellpass or a tax-free benefit with the Give Card (50€ net each month).
• Fresh food every day:Shared lunch break with healthy, varied dishes.
• Alpine view included: Our roof terrace invites you to relax after work in Taufkirchen
• Further development guaranteed: You will grow both professionally and personally through exciting projects and exchanges with experts.
• We live and breathe team culture: whether it's a tech talk, team event or after-work - we celebrate successes together.