People Lead

Your Impact

As People Lead at Tacto, you'll be the architect of our workplace culture and employee experience during our critical growth phase. This isn't just an HR role—it's a business-critical leadership position that directly impacts our success. Our team is our most valuable asset, and you'll ensure we're building an environment where high performers thrive while maintaining the human connection that makes Tacto special. You'll balance empathetic leadership with pragmatic execution, serving as both a trusted advisor to our leadership team and a genuine ally to every employee. By championing our people-first approach while driving meaningful organizational change, you'll create the foundation that enables Tacto to scale successfully.

Your Tasks

• Strategic Partnership & Leadership: Develop our people vision alongside the leadership team while serving as the primary counterweight and sparring partner to the CEO on organizational health, culture, and people development. You'll translate business goals into actionable people strategies that enable our growth.

• High-Performance Culture: Design and implement the processes and systems that foster excellence across our organization. You'll create the frameworks that help us build a culture where ambitious, results-driven professionals can excel while ensuring our approach remains human-centered and values-driven.

• Cultural Stewardship: Shape how it feels to work at Tacto by embedding our values into everyday experiences, facilitating meaningful team connections, and ensuring we maintain our cultural DNA as we scale. This includes orchestrating team events and creating traditions that strengthen our community.

• Employee Advocacy & Coaching: Serve as a trusted advisor and ally to team members across all levels, helping them navigate their professional growth while being their advocate within the organization. You'll create an environment where people feel heard, supported, and empowered to do their best work.

• Operational Excellence: Own the practical foundations of people operations including HR administration, compensation structures, and compliance requirements that support our growing organization.

• Become AI Native: Proactively identify opportunities to leverage AI to accelerate the work of your team, experiment with new approaches, and share successful workflows – contributing to Tacto's culture of high-velocity execution and innovation.

Your Profile

• You're a natural coach with exceptional emotional intelligence who can build trust across all levels of the organization while challenging people to grow

• You have the confidence and communication skills to serve as a strong sparrings partner and when needed counterweight to the CEO, advocating for people-centric approaches while understanding business realities

• You bring 3-5 years of experience in dynamic, high-growth environments with a track record of creating positive change in how organizations develop their people

• You've ideally guided a VC-backed tech or SaaS company through rapid scaling and understand the unique people challenges this presents

• You combine empathetic listening with decisive action—you're equally skilled at making people feel heard and driving meaningful organizational change

• You possess the rare ability to balance being an ally to all employees while maintaining the perspective needed to make tough decisions in the company's best interest

• You're hands-on and solutions-oriented, with a bias toward practical implementations rather than theoretical frameworks

Who We Are

Tacto is an AI-driven procurement platform. Our mission is to strengthen Europe’s industrial “Mittelstand” by future proofing their supply chains. We streamline how companies buy, negotiate and manage procurement – we help them optimize their by far largest cost driver to stay competitive in the long-run. Trusted by hundreds of companies, Tacto transforms procurement into a strategic advantage.

Based in Munich, our team of builders, entrepreneurs and industry experts is creating technology that truly matters. We’re backed by some of the best investors in the world including Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Visionaries Club, UVC Partners as well as the founders of Personio, GetYourGuide, Helsing & Forto.

Why It Matters

The industrial Mittelstand – 90,000+ small and medium-sized enterprises – forms Europe’s economic backbone, driving 25% of Germany’s GDP and providing over 30% of jobs. These hidden champions manufacture the physical world around us, from the machines that build our cities to the medical devices that save lives.

Today, a world of growing uncertainty and disruption is threatening their position. To stay competitive, the Mittelstand must unlock new efficiencies – and procurement is their largest, strategic lever to do so.

At Tacto, we deliver tangible cost savings and strategic resilience at a time when it’s needed most. Our work extends beyond technology – it’s about protecting the foundation of Europe’s economy for generations to come.

What We Offer

• An environment where we enable you to have an impact and where we focus on outcomes, not time-tracking

• A vibrant in-office culture in a beautiful office (at least 3 days/week)

• 26 + 4 vacation days per year (4 fixed “company rest days”)

• Wellpass membership and access to Jobrad, for your health

• Additional voluntary pension contribution and KITA subsidy, for you and your family’s future

• Competitive salary & meaningful equity stake, so you are invested in our success

Tacto is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning your health, or data concerning your sexual orientation.