Head of HR, Limassol

Head of HR | Limassol, Cyprus

Salary: 70,000 - 120,000 Euros per annum depending on experience, plus discretionary performance bonus, ESOP, benefits. 

Onsite - Limassol, Cyprus with work flexibility. 

Must have the right to work and travel within the EU.  

Our client is building a global leader in physical AI, anchored in Europe's strongest robotics heritage. Founded by entrepreneurs with backgrounds in scaling digital products and advanced robotics, the team is bolstered by senior leadership from top-tier AI research labs and industrial tech companies.

Driven by a mission to create versatile and trustworthy embodied AI for physical labor, they fuse deep engineering mastery in AI and mechatronics with a rapid-execution culture. They are addressing the labor shortage by closing the gap to production-grade deployment. This means building the trusted alternative: robots that are safe, secure, and engineered to automotive standards of scale and durability.

Well-capitalized and operating in semi-stealth, they are now assembling their core team.

Your mission

Talent Acquisition

• Own end-to-end recruiting across all functions and seniority levels, with a focus on technical and specialist roles

• Design and implement a scalable, structured hiring process from intake to offer — including interview frameworks, scorecards, and hiring manager enablement

• Set up and manage Personio as the central ATS and recruiting hub

• Source and manage relationships with external recruiters and headhunters

• Drive recruiting strategy in a stealth-mode environment, managing candidate experience and confidentiality across the pipeline

People & Culture

• Build and own the full employee lifecycle: onboarding, performance, development, offboarding

• Establish and maintain HR operations across both Germany and Cyprus, ensuring compliance with local labour law in each entity

• Own and develop Personio as the HRIS, ensuring data accuracy and process consistency across both locations

• Define and implement HR policies, handbooks, and documentation standards

• Partner with payroll providers in Germany and Cyprus, ensuring smooth monthly operations and compliance

• Lead GDPR compliance for all HR and candidate data, including assessment of tooling and data storage practices

• Support visa and relocation processes for international hires

• Define and maintain salary bands and compensation benchmarks in close alignment with management, ensuring compliance with the EU Pay Transparency Directive

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary HR partner to the founders and key stakeholders, including function leads in Munich and Cyprus

• Build and manage a small HR team as the company scales,

• Define and own the HR roadmap, KPIs, and reporting cadence for leadership visibility

• Lead internal communication on people topics, including team announcements, policy rollouts, and culture initiatives

Your profile

Must-haves

• 6+ years of experience in HR, with a mix of generalist People Operations and Talent Acquisition

• Proven experience building HR from scratch — ideally at pre-seed, pre-product, or early-stage company

• Hands-on experience with Personio or a comparable HRIS/ATS

• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

• Experience in tech companies; understands the pace, ambiguity, and culture of a fast-moving startup

• Comfortable being both strategic and deeply operational — this is not a team-of-many role yet

• Familiarity with GDPR compliance processes in an HR context

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with international/EoR employment setups

• Background in robotics, deep tech, or hardware-adjacent companies

• Experience managing payroll operations across multiple entities

Mindset

You are comfortable with ambiguity and motivated by building. You think in systems but move fast. You earn trust with founders and candidates alike. You do not wait for processes to exist — you create them.

Why us?

• The Team: Work directly alongside founders with a proven track record of building unicorn-scale companies and defining global robotics standards.

• Smart Strategy: We operate as disciplined fast followers. Capital is timed to the deployment inflection point, avoiding early-mover dead ends to scale fast on proven foundations.

• Resources: We are substantially internally funded and attract top-tier investors to avoid any capital constraints for our mission.

• Historic Opportunity: Join at the dawn of a new industry comparable to the rise of the automobile. Help shape the European champion in this trillion-dollar market.

Locations: Two main locations: Munich, Germany and Limassol, Cyprus. This pan-European setup represents the core ambition of building a European technology leader, gives a great talent base and a strong corporate structure.

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Recruiter: Donna Stephenson, Emerald Zebra. 

Emerald Zebra is a specialist recruitment and executive search consultancy for FinTech, Tech, Financial Services & iGaming. 

Our client is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to an inclusive environment for all builders.