Employee Experience Designer/People Project Manager (d/f/m) - 6-month Fixed Term Contract, Berlin Based

What is Leapsome?

Leapsome is the AI-powered people platform revolutionizing HR for modern teams. Leapsome drives HR excellence and empowers high-performing teams by automating, connecting, and simplifying every HR process across the employee lifecycle — from onboarding and performance management to engagement and development. Built with ease of use in mind, our platform ensures high adoption by employees, managers, and People teams alike.

Our purpose is to make work fulfilling for everyone, and our vision is to reshape the future of work by being the leading People platform for HR excellence and high-performing teams. We enable companies to create environments where people can achieve their goals, learn and grow together, and build genuine motivation & engagement.

Trusted by thousands of organizations globally, Leapsome secured $60 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners in March 2022. This funding allowed us to further develop our intelligent platform, create exceptional employee experiences, and expand into the US market.

It’s an incredibly exciting time to join Leapsome and be part of reshaping the future of work!

Your Opportunity

This role exists to bring focus, structure, and momentum to People projects. You’ll design and drive end-to-end delivery of high-impact employee experience initiatives, making sure work actually lands — on time, clearly, and with measurable outcomes.

You’ll work across the People team, turning problem statements into scoped projects, and helping the team move from activity to impact. The role will own the delivery of some enablement work, ensuring full understanding of the most critical processes within People Ops (such as Performance Management), so that we can design our approach with care and deep awareness of how we can improve.

What is your job?

• Lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of People products and programmes, from initial brief through to rollout and adoption

• Translate ambiguous People challenges into clearly scoped projects, defining objectives, timelines, milestones, and success metrics (e.g. Performance Assessment, Compensation, Career Frameworks)

• Design and run user research programmes to inform People initiatives, ensuring solutions are grounded in employee and manager needs

• Own and operate 12-week delivery cycles, tracking progress against defined outcomes and adjusting plans as needed

• Partner closely with the People team, managers, senior leaders, and external partners to align on priorities, dependencies, and delivery expectations

• Develop and maintain clear, lightweight artefacts including project plans, documentation, communication plans, and decision logs

• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and blockers, driving timely decisions and escalating where required to keep work on track

• Own delivery of selected People enablement initiatives, building deep understanding of core People Ops processes to improve how they work in practice

• Support the prioritisation of People work, helping the Team Lead focus capacity on initiatives with the highest organisational impact

• Ensure People projects land with clarity, consistency, and strong adoption, reducing rework, confusion, and inefficiency across the organisation

• Continuously assess and communicate project impact and outcomes, helping the team move from activity to measurable results

Who we are looking for:

• Proven experience in project or program management within People / HR / organisational design contexts

• Strong understanding of People programmes such as performance assessments, compensation, and career frameworks

• Experience working in fast-growing startups or scale-ups, comfortable with ambiguity

• Ability to translate unclear problems into clear scopes, timelines, and outcomes

• Hands-on experience running sprint-based delivery cycles and managing cross-functional dependencies

• Experience designing and running user research to inform People initiatives

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across People, leadership, and managers

• Highly proactive, outcome-oriented, and confident pushing for decisions and prioritisation

• Available for an interim / fixed-term engagement

• You are based in Berlin

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