(Senior) HR Operations Specialist (f/m/d)

13 Hours ago • 1-2 Years • Human Resource

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Job Description

As a (Senior) HR Operations Specialist, you'll drive payroll, benefits, and HR operations, contributing to impactful projects within a fast-growing company. Responsibilities include payroll preparation with internal/external teams, managing HR administration tasks (document management, employee records, HRIS updates), handling compensation and benefits, ensuring regulatory compliance, optimizing HR data in systems (Personio, Figures), supporting audits and reporting, and participating in growth initiatives. The role requires expertise in HR operations, payroll processing, German employment laws (international experience a plus), and strong stakeholder management skills.
Must have:
  • Extensive HR operations experience
  • Payroll processing expertise
  • Compensation & benefits management
  • German employment law knowledge
  • Stakeholder management skills
Good to have:
  • International HR regulations familiarity
  • Experience with Personio and Figures
Perks:
  • 30 vacation days
  • Flexible working hours
  • Dog-friendly office
  • Relocation package
  • German classes reimbursement
  • Monthly company lunch
  • Free snacks & drinks
  • Free breakfast & pastries
  • In-house gym & personal trainer
  • Yoga classes
  • EAP access
  • Regular company events
  • Hackathons
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Virtual stock options
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As a (Senior) HR Operations Specialist, you will be driving all matters of payroll, benefits, and HR operations, while working on impactful projects in our fast-growing, dynamic organization!

The applike group is committed to creating engaging experiences for every app user around the world. We are passionate about creating market-changing products, technologies, and companies. We have already founded 5 companies. Our ventures are independent business units that benefit from each other’s technologies, expertise, and market access to become even more successful: adjoe is developing a breakthrough mobile advertising solution that enables app publishers around the world to grow their advertising revenues. justDice is the market leader in Mobile Gaming Loyalty Programs. Sunday is a next-generation hybrid casual mobile game publisher. justtrack offers unique software to automate the entire mobile user acquisition process and Tabbler creates engaging mobile games for the world’s biggest brands. Yet more to come.

Under the umbrella of the media company Bertelsmann, we have access to a global network of experts and strong financial support. By developing a state-of-the-art tech stack and highly skilled workforce, we aim to reach more mobile users than any other company in the world. If you want to challenge yourself and work in a high-performance environment, you’ve come to the right place!

Find the whole world in one office. Boost your career with awesome people!

What you will do:

  • Act as the go-to expert for HR operations, administrative tasks, as well as for payroll and benefits-related matters
  • Take ownership of our payroll preparation in collaboration with internal teams and external payroll providers to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing
  • Oversee, manage, and continuously enhance HR administration tasks, including document management, maintaining employee records, updating the HRIS, and streamlining process documentation
  • Handling compensation and benefits administration, managing enrollment processes, updates, and employee inquiries while ensuring compliance with local regulations and company policies
  • Maintain and optimize HR and salary data within our IT systems (e.g., Personio and Figures), keeping workflows, reports, and compliance requirements updated and efficient
  • Support audits, reporting, and budgeting processes, specifically related to payroll, compensation, and benefits
  • Take part in projects and growth/optimization initiatives due to our growing organization structure and changing demands from the HR side

Who you are:

  • You gained extensive experience in operations, administration, or payroll-related HR roles with a proven track record of managing compensation & benefits processes
  • In-depth knowledge of HR practices, with a strong understanding of HR operations, payroll processing, tax regulations, and employment laws, in Germany; familiarity with international HR regulations is a plus
  • Experienced in managing relationships with internal stakeholders and external providers such as payroll vendors, benefits administrators, and government officials
  • Experienced in onboarding, coaching, and mentoring junior colleagues
  • Clear and open communication, fluent in German and English

Why you will love working here:

  • Work-Life Package: 30 vacation days, flexible working hours, dog-friendly kick-ass office in the center of the city.
  • Relocation Package: Visa & legal support, relocation bonus, reimbursement of German Classes costs, and more.
  • Happy Belly Package: Monthly company lunch, tons of free snacks and drinks, free breakfast & fresh delicious pastries every Monday
  • Physical & Mental Health Package: In-house gym with a personal trainer, various classes like Yoga with expert teachers & free of charge access to our EAP (Employee Assistance Program) to support your mental health and well-being
  • Activity Package: Regular team and company events, and hackathons.
  • Education Package: Opportunities to boost your professional development with courses and training directly connected to your career goals
  • Wealth building: Virtual stock options for all our regular employees

The Interview Process

  • 1st Interview with TA
  • Case Study
  • 2nd Interview with Head of HR
  • 3rd Interview with VP of People & team members of the HR team

Our mission is to create an inspiring work environment for amazing people to achieve extraordinary things. Be part of it!

Skip writing cover letters. Tell us about your most passionate personal project, your desired salary, and your earliest possible start date. We are looking forward to your application!

We welcome applications from people who will contribute to the diversity of our company.

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About The Company

applike group is the leading company building in the app economy. Based in Hamburg/Germany, our technologies & businesses cover the full value chain of the mobile apps market.


Our companies work independently but benefit from each others’ technologies and knowledge.


We have set up 5 companies (JustDice, adjoe, Sunday, justtrack, Tabbler) under one roof of applike group.


justDice is responsible for building the world’s largest rewarded mobile gaming experiences. As market-leader in this genre, our goal is to ultimately create the best rewarded games.


adjoe’s ad format generates higher ad revenues than any other solution. adjoe’s UA platform provides quality traffic on scale, leveraging our growing SDK network.


Sunday creates and publishes extremely engaging and addictive mobile games with smart and player-friendly monetisation.


justtrack is our unique answer to optimizing and automating your entire mobile app growth strategy – all on one platform.


Tabbler builds highly engaging mobile games (iOS and Android) for leading consumer brands. End-to-end, from the development to the game’s production to the actual distribution to millions of users in a given region.


These 5 companies receive best in class business support from applike's central service teams: Talent Acquisition, HR, Finance, Office Management and Internal IT.


We are 100 percent tech company where everybody is interested in computer science. We are always giving our best to keep in touch with the newest technology to build the most relevant products. Our mission is to build software with the capability to distribute ads to every mobile device on earth.


We're always looking for new colleagues. Come join us if you're ambitious, smart, kind and want to grow professionally while having a lot of fun. :)

Hamburg, Germany (Hybrid)

Hamburg, Germany (Hybrid)

Hamburg, Germany (Hybrid)

Hamburg, Germany (Hybrid)

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