HR Business Partner (German speaking)

About the Position

Join Kolsquare and own the data backbone that powers Europe’s leading influencer marketing platform, where your work directly shapes product intelligence, performance, and scale!

About Kolsquare

Kolsquare is the #1 Influencer Marketing software solution in Europe, used by marketing professionals for managing KOL Marketing campaigns (K.O.L for Key Opinion Leaders, aka Influencers), and designed to optimize brand communication strategies in response to new digital challenges. Using our technology, professionals can identify the best KOL profiles, fully manage their KOL Marketing campaigns and measure their results and performances.

Kolsquare offers hundreds of customers (Coca-Cola, Danone, Publicis, Orange, Sézane, Decathlon, etc.) the latest Big Data, AI and Machine Learning technologies to activate inspiring and genuine partnerships with over 3M KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders) with more than 5,000 followers in 180 countries on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter (now X), Facebook, Snap and YouTube.

In 2024, Kolsquare joined the team.blue group, one of the largest private tech companies in Europe, with a culture of innovation and excellence, to further fuel its impressive track record of outstanding profitable growth.

Responsibilities

• Strategic HR Partnership & Org Design

  • Act as a trusted advisor to managers and leadership, translating business needs into HR initiatives, org design, and workforce planning
  • Support workforce planning and advise on headcount decisions with Finance and Talent Acquisition

• Change Management & Integration

  • Lead the people's side of the Kolsquare–Storyclash integration and future group-wide change initiatives
  • Assess organizational readiness for change and design communication and adoption plans
  • Help employees and managers navigate change with structure and empathy
  • Spot friction early - between teams, processes, and ways of working - and address it before it compounds

• Performance, Talent & Succession

  • Build and drive the performance management cycle (goal-setting, calibration, ratings consistency)
  • Coach managers on feedback, underperformance, and team development
  • Facilitate talent reviews and succession planning for critical roles
  • Partner on retention strategies for critical talent, using turnover and risk analysis to target interventions

• Employee Relations & Works Council

  • Advise managers on complex employee-relations matters, conflict resolution, and sensitive conversations
  • Serve as the main HR contact for the Austrian Works Council (Betriebsrat) and other employee representative bodies where they apply
  • Balance business needs, fairness, and legal risk, partnering with external counsel where needed

• Engagement & People Data

  • Interpret engagement survey results and co-create action plans with managers, tailored to each company
  • Use people data (engagement, turnover, performance) to diagnose issues and shape recommendations for leaders

• Talent Acquisition Support (helloCash)

  • Open and coordinate helloCash role openings (on average 3 job openings per year) in collaboration with team.blue's central Talent Acquisition team, who lead full-cycle recruiting
  • Partner with hiring managers to define profiles and provide input throughout the process

Requirements

• Must-haves 🫵

  • 5+ years of HRBP experience, ideally in a fast-growing tech or SaaS environment (50-150 employees a strong plus)
  • A generalist grounding across talent, employee relations, performance, and engagement, with experience advising and influencing senior leaders
  • Strong knowledge of Austrian labor law; experience with collective agreements and works councils
  • Comfortable building HR processes and tools from the ground up, not just running an established framework
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management, high emotional intelligence, and real conflict-navigation skills
  • Fluent in German and English (written and spoken); French/Spanish is a plus

• Nice-to-haves ✌️

  • Experience partnering across a multi-entity or multi-brand group, or in a post-acquisition/integration context
  • Data-driven mindset with experience in HR reporting and people analytics; familiarity with HRIS platforms (e.g. HiBob) and engagement tools (e.g. Culture Amp) is a plus
  • Proven experience managing full-cycle recruiting and supporting hiring managers in defining role profiles

We Offer

• Full flexibility: full remote work with European hubs and 400+ coworking spaces worldwide.
• Monthly and quarterly highlights in person to get together with other Kolsquarians for great team-building events.
• The stability and resources of a profitable group, with the agility of a scale-up.
• Continuous training opportunities and career development support.

The Recruitment Process

Our hiring process consists of 6 steps:

1. Talent Acquisition interview – 30 min
2. Tatiana, VP People at Kolsquare – 45 min
3. Annamarie Zalesak, People Lead at helloCash – 45 min
4. Alexis, CFO – 30 min
5. Julia, External Coach – 30 min
6. Quentin, CEO – 30 min

The process is designed to give you the opportunity to meet key stakeholders across Kolsquare and helloCash and get a good understanding of the role, the team and the broader context.

Location

Remote first in Europe, preferably residing in Spain or Austria.

About the Company

Kolsquare is Europe’s leading Influencer Marketing platform, a data-driven solution that allows brands to scale their KOL Marketing strategies and implement authentic partnerships with KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders).

Kolsquare’s technology enables marketing professionals to easily identify the best Content Creators’ profiles by filtering their content and audience, and to build and manage their campaigns from A to Z, including measuring results and benchmarking performance against competitors.

Kolsquare has built a thriving global community of influencer marketing experts, and offers hundreds of customers (Coca-Cola, Netflix, Sony Music, Publicis, Sézane, Sephora, Lush, Hermès…) the latest Big Data, AI and Machine Learning technologies to drive inspiring partnerships, tapping into an exhaustive network of KOLs with more than 5,000 followers in 180 countries on Instagram, TikTok, X (Twitter), Facebook, YouTube and SnapChat.

As a Certified B Corporation, Kolsquare has been pioneering Responsible Influence by championing transparency, ethical practices, and meaningful collaborations to inspire change.

Since October 2024, Kolsquare forms part of Team.Blue, a leading digital enabler for businesses and entrepreneurs across Europe made up of over 60 successful brands in the fields of web hosting, domains, e-commerce, online compliance, lead generation, application solutions, and social media.

Founded in 2018