Senior Onboarding Operations Specialist, Germany

About Remote

Remote is dedicated to solving the modern organization's biggest challenge: navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We empower businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. Our core values and future-focused work culture drive our team to tackle ambitious problems asynchronously, across the globe. Remoters work from six continents, and all our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences, and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated, and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting opportunity to join Remote as a Senior Onboarding Operations Specialist, Germany, on our Onboarding Operations team. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in ensuring seamless and compliant employee onboardings specifically for the German market. You'll leverage your deep expertise in German employment regulations to navigate complex scenarios and deliver exceptional results.

You will act as a subject matter expert for German onboardings, driving processes to completion in accordance with country-specific Service Level Agreements (SLAs). This role demands a thorough understanding of German employment entity models, including Employer of Record (EOR) structures, and the ability to compliantly onboard individuals into these models. You will be responsible for preparing and processing detailed, country-specific documentation, ensuring strict adherence to German employment law and entity requirements.

A key aspect of this role involves a close partnership with Legal and Compliance stakeholders to resolve complex cases and achieve positive outcomes for German onboardings. Your strong understanding of German employment agreement language and provisions will be crucial in this collaboration. You will also work in conjunction with our customer-facing teams, providing expert guidance on how to accurately complete specific German paperwork to support hiring in the region. While working with a focused portfolio of onboardings, you will continuously identify and implement process improvements in partnership with our Legal and International Operations teams, contributing to the advancement of our capabilities in the German market.

What you bring

• Experience:
  • Advanced career experience in People Operations, HR Operations, or Legal Operations, directly in the German market.
  • Proven experience onboarding individuals compliantly into various employment entity models in Germany - with bonus points for doing so in the Employer of Record space.
  • Demonstrated experience preparing and processing detailed, country-specific documentation for Germany.
  • Experience partnering with legal and compliance stakeholders to resolve complex German employment cases.
  • Experience advising on country-specific paperwork completion to support hiring in Germany.
  • Bonus points if you have experience working remotely.
• Knowledge:
  • Exceptional understanding of German employment agreement language and provisions.
  • In-depth knowledge of German entity models, labor regulations, and HR best practices.
• Skills & Attributes:
  • Team player with the ability to work independently and take ownership.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, with experience managing workflows that involve multiple departments.
  • Calm and composed under pressure, comfortable liaising with both internal and external stakeholders in alignment with Remote's values.
  • Solutions-oriented, demonstrating high situational awareness and proactive case management.
  • Strong sense of ownership, comfortable working and problem-solving independently.
  • Fluent in written and spoken English and German.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and execute employee onboardings with a specialized focus on the German market, ensuring full compliance.

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