Position Overview:

Lobster is a hybrid company: you can work from wherever you're based across our regions, and our offices in Tutzing (South of Munich) and Amsterdam are there whenever you'd like to be in one. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender identity. 

As we continue to grow across product and engineering, we are looking for a (Senior) People & Culture Business Partner – Tech (m/f/x) to partner with the leaders who build our technology. 
In this role, you will be part of a small, lean People & Culture team and the go-to person for our Chief Product & Technology Officer and the Engineering & Product leadership team. 
You will run the people agenda for our tech organization and drive projects that reach across the wider business. 

Ready to make an impact?

You’ll get to take ownership of:

• Being the go-to partner for our CPTO and the Engineering & Product leaders onpeoplestrategy, career development, and team health.
• Driving cross-org projects and initiatives that reach beyond product and engineering.
• Running the full employee lifecycle for our tech organization, from onboarding to offboarding, across Germany and the Netherlands.
• Building career frameworks, compensation reviews, and performance programs that people actually use.
• Automating thebusyworkwith AI and modern HR tools, so your time goes to people instead of paperwork.
• Keeping us compliant and up to date on German and Dutch labor law.

What will you learn during your apprenticeship?:

We’d love to meet someone with:

• Solid experience as a business partner to tech teamsinproduct and software development, with a real understanding of engineering culture, delivery cycles, and roadmap planning, ideally across EMEA.
• Profound change-management experience, ideally guiding cultural transformation as the organization scales.
• Knowledge of compensation and benefits for tech teams, anda clear sense ofwhat makes apaystructure fair.
• Confidencepartnering with senior leadersand helping shape their decisions.
• A genuine affinity for technical people; you understand how engineers and product folks think and work, and you might even code for fun.
• A finger on the pulse of the software world, from agile ways of working to the tech talent market and how AI is reshaping the way teams build.
• A coaching background is a plus
• Working knowledge of Germanlabor law;Dutch labor lawis a plus
• FluentinEnglish, with business-levelGerman.Dutchisastrongplus.
• Happy working in a distributed team, since we care more about talent than location, with the willingness to travel toTutzingor Amsterdam regularly to spend time with your teams.

We’d love to hear from you:

You can look forward to:

• Real hybrid working: modern offices in Germany and the Netherlands, plus the freedom to work from home when it suits you 
• A modern, spacious office with a view of Lake Starnberg in Tutzing
• Subsidised lunches in our in-house restaurant
• A personal learning and development budget
• 30 vacation days per year
• 2 additional paid days off on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve 
• Up to 20 days of remote work per year from any EU country
• Bike leasing through our partnership with JobRad
• Opportunity to work flexibly from home
• Team evenings every Thursday with refreshments covered by the company
• A company pension plan (bAV)