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Head of People & Culture (f/m/d)

Zug
Full-time
Permanent employee

Your mission

We're looking for a strategic, hands-on People & Culture lead to own how redalpine attracts, develops, and retains exceptional talent. Working closely with the Executive Team, you'll take full ownership of all people matters across our offices in Zug, Berlin and London.
From hiring and performance to compensation, culture and people operations, you'll sit at the heart of how a leading venture capital firm is built and led. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of people, business, and entrepreneurship - and who wants to make a lasting impact in Europe's most dynamic VC ecosystem.

Your responsibilities
  • People Strategy: Act as a thought partner to the Executive Team and GeneralPartners on organisational design, leadership development and firm-wide performance. Convert strategic direction into action and ensure clarity, accountability and alignment as redalpine scales.
  • Talent Acquisition: Own end-to-end hiring for redalpine's core team across Europe, from role definition and sourcing strategy to offer and close. Build a pipeline of top-performing talent and raise the bar on every hire.
  • Performance & Development: Design and run the performance management cycle, career frameworks and development programmes. Build the feedback culture that keeps a high-performance team growing.
  • Compensation & Benefits: Own the compensation framework across all three locations, including benchmarking, review cycles and benefit structures. Ensure decisions are data-driven, transparent and market-competitive.
  • People Operations & Employment Law: Own the operational backbone of the people function, including contracts, payroll interfaces, HR systems, policies and employee lifecycle processes. Serve as the internal authority on employment law obligations in Switzerland, Germany and the UK, working with external counsel where needed. Manage and mentor the People Operations team.
  • Culture, Workplace & Events: Shape and safeguard redalpine's culture across Zug, Berlin and London, translating values into everyday practice through onboarding and internal communication. Own the workplace and events agenda, from daily office operations to offsites, team formats and client-facing gatherings such as the annual Family Day, with the Office & Team Coordinator leading day-to-day delivery.
  • AI Adoption: Champion the exploration and adoption of AI tools to modernise and elevate the People function - bringing a curious, forward-looking mindset to how people work gets done.

Your profile

  • Degree from a top-tier university in business, psychology, law or a related field; further HR or leadership qualifications are a plus.
  • 5 years plus prior experience in a senior HR, people leadership or other leadership role, ideally within high-growth technology companies, venture capital, private equity or professional services. The ideal candidate has an active network in the European VC and start-up ecosystem.
  • Strong command of Swiss employment law and working familiarity with the German and UK employment frameworks.
  • Proven track record in scaling organisations and building data-driven, high-performance cultures.
  • Excellent communication skills in both German and English, written and verbal.
  • A sharp people mind who combines analytical rigour, solution-orientation and high emotional intelligence with the drive to get things done in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment.
  • A collaborative and highly reliable team player who steps up in challenging situations and works towards shared goals.

Why us?

  • Impact from day one: shape the future with founders who make an impact.
  • High performance, no ceiling: thrive in a culture where excellence is the baseline.
  • Career rocket fuel: deep exposure to Europe's VC ecosystem, from founders to LPs.
  • Bold vision: we back the extraordinary, and so do you.

About us

redalpine is the pan-European venture capital firm that empowers GameChangers. Founded in Zurich in 2006, with offices in Berlin, London, and a partner location in San Francisco, redalpine brings together financial investment, operational expertise, and a vast international network to help ambitious entrepreneurs transform their vision into a reality. redalpine has over $1.3bn in assets under management and has backed some of Europe’s most disruptive software and science companies, including N26, Taxfix, Klarna, Proxima Fusion, 9fin, and Hilo by Aktiia. With a multi-stage investment approach, redalpine invests Europe-wide and counts over 100 companies in its portfolio.