Head of People (m/f/x)

As we continue to scale rapidly across Europe and beyond, our People & Culture function plays a critical role in building strong leadership, high-performing teams, and a unified company culture across borders.

Skeleton's People & Office department is looking for a driven and experienced

Head of People (m/f/x)

You will define and execute our data‑driven People & Culture strategy "Top Performer" across multiple locations. You will be as a strategic partner to leaders and a hands‑on HR leader who uses people data and insights to guide decisions, measure impact, and continuously improve how we scale.

You will further be involved in the following areas:

• Lead and develop People, Talent Acquisition and Office teams across locations, ensuring strong collaboration and consistency.
• Use people analytics and KPIs to improve performance, engagement and retention.
• Translate business needs and HR trends into long-term, insight-led people plans and OKRs.
• Drive high-performance culture, employer branding, and change initiatives.
• Oversee People Operations, labor relations, employee experience, talent development.
• Ensure compliant and lean HR processes.
• Act as a trusted advisor and coach to managers.

Requirements

• Senior HR leadership experience in a fast-growing, international environment.
• Proven experience leading HR across multiple countries.
• Strong data-driven mindset and experience with people analytics.
• Strong knowledge of German labor law and employee relations; legal background or close legal collaboration is a major plus.
• Confidence partnering with senior leaders; hands-on and pragmatic approach.
• Fluent in German and English.

Prior to sending your application, please review our Culture Code to ensure that our environment is where you would thrive and would lead by example: Careers at Skeleton - jobs in the energy storage industry | Skeleton

Benefits

• We offer flexible working hours, with the possibility of mobile working without core working hours and sufficient freedom for your own ideas.
• A flat hierarchy culture - fostering our great working atmosphere.
• Helpfulness among colleagues is not just an empty phrase but a practice every day.
• A motivating opportunity for continuous growth at Skeleton.
• An additional day off every year for your birthday.
• Be active & participate in our internal sports challenges (SkelFitness).
• We celebrate our successes with Team Events, Summer & New Year’s parties, and other initiatives! 
  

We're not just about energy storage. We're about redefining energy for a net zero future, and we'd love for you to be a part of our journey.

About Skeleton

Skeleton Technologies is a Global Cleantech 100 company and a technology leader in high power energy storage for transportation, grid, automotive, and industrial applications.

For us, developing and producing the best energy storage solutions is a means to an end: helping companies to reduce CO2 emissions and save energy.

We work with some of the largest companies in the world from automotive and industrial OEMs to truck fleet operators and aerospace prime contractors. Our products decrease CO2 emissions and fuel consumption, improve power quality, and empower wider electrification of the biggest industries globally.

Our supercapacitor and SuperBattery energy storage technologies, based on patented curved graphene, represent the biggest technological advancement in the industry in the last 20 years and the use of this innovative material provides our products with an unparalleled advantage in power and energy density.

Skeleton Technologies is located in multiple locations: headquarters in Tallinn (Estonia), manufacturings in Markranstädt (Germany) and Varkaus (Finland), materials development in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, several additional locations in Finland (Helsinki and Lappeenranta), and an office in Berlin and first people in Toulouse (France).