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# People & Culture Partner – NYC Office at Lio

- **Company:** Lio
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lio/846bc722-7261-4150-92fc-e37093136267

## Job description

Build the team and culture behind Lio’s next chapter. Following our $30M Series A, we’re expanding internationally and building our New York office from the ground up. As our first People & Culture hire in the U.S., you won’t step into an established function, you’ll create it. You’ll hire the exceptional people who will shape our U.S. organization and build the foundations for their performance, development, and engagement. Working closely with our Munich People team, U.S. team and founders you’ll help create one global company with shared values and ambitious standards. This is your opportunity to do more than join a great culture, it’s your opportunity to help build one!

## What You’ll Do

- Establish Lio’s local People & Culture presence in New York as an extension of our Munich-based People team
- Act as a strategic sparring partner to our People & Culture Lead, helping shape a unified global people strategy
- Own the NYC employee journey, including recruiting, onboarding, engagement, performance, development, and offboarding
- Lead end-to-end hiring for U.S. roles and help build a high-performing New York team
- Serve as the trusted local point of contact for employees and managers
- Support managers with team development, feedback, performance, and employee-related topics
- Adapt global initiatives and processes to the U.S. market while ensuring consistency across both offices
- Build scalable local structures that support our growth while remaining closely connected to the global People strategy
- Use employee insights and people data to continuously improve the employee experience
- Strengthen the connection between Munich and New York: one company, one People team, and one shared culture

## Your Profile

- You have at least three years of experience in People & Culture, HR, Talent Acquisition, People Operations, or a related role
- You have worked in a fast-growing startup or scale-up and understand what it takes to build while a company is scaling
- You bring strong recruiting experience and are comfortable owning critical searches end to end
- You understand the fundamentals of U.S. employment practices and know when to involve external experts
- You have supported managers and employees across performance, development, and engagement topics
- You combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution and are excited to establish People & Culture in a new location
- You are proactive, structured, and comfortable making progress without an established local playbook
- You communicate clearly, exercise sound judgment, and handle sensitive topics with care
- You enjoy collaborating across cultures, offices, and time zones
- You are based in New York City and excited to work closely with the team in person

Why Lio?

- Build from the ground up: Establish the People & Culture foundation for our New York office
- Shape the team: Hire and develop the exceptional people who will drive our U.S. growth
- Strategic influence: Work closely with our People & Culture Lead, founders, and U.S. leadership
- One global team: Connect Munich and New York through shared values, standards, and experiences
- Visible impact: Every person you hire and every process you build will directly shape Lio’s future

This isn’t about creating a separate U.S. People function. It’s about building the New York arm of one global People team: one company, one culture, and two offices.

## About Lio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lio builds the world's first multi-agent AI workforce for enterprise procurement, automating the entire purchasing process from request to delivery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Vladimir "Vladi" Keil (CEO), Lukas Heinzmann (CTO), Till Wagner (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Enterprise AI / Procurement Automation / Supply Chain Technology
- **Target customers**: Large global enterprises (150+ enterprise clients) — B2B, Enterprise
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To make work faster, smarter, and more human through AI — transforming procurement from a bureaucratic bottleneck into a frictionless, strategic function.

## Products & Services
- **Lio Multi-Agent Procurement Platform**: An AI-driven system where specialized agents work in parallel to research vendors, negotiate terms, manage approvals, and track deliveries. Integrates with existing P2P/ERP systems. Available in five layers that customers can adopt incrementally: Operational Automation, Agent-Augmented Buying, and others. [lio.ai](https://lio.ai/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $30.1M (Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (lead investor in Series A), Y Combinator (YC alum), Microsoft (Official Microsoft Partner)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 1,000,000+ users across 150+ enterprises in less than three years
  - 100% customer retention — not a single customer has churned
  - 428.6% headcount growth YoY (from ~16 to 87 employees)
  - Awarded BME Procurement Excellence Award (with REHAU) and DPW Growth Award
  - Average 10% additional cost savings for customers and 85% reduction in operational workload

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in multi-agent procurement**: World’s first multi-agent system purpose-built for procurement, not a generic automation tool.
- **Enterprise-grade security & compliance**: ISO 27001 certified, hosted on Microsoft Azure Europe, fully GDPR compliant — a critical moat for large enterprise adoption.
- **Deep integration ecosystem**: Official Microsoft Partner with secure integration into Microsoft architecture and existing P2P/ERP systems.
- **Proven ROI at scale**: >95% of procurement requests flow through standardized, compliant processes; customers achieve 10% cost savings and 85% workload reduction.
- **Zero churn**: 100% customer retention signals extreme product-market fit and stickiness.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Actively hiring for Head of US Sales, indicating a push into the North American market. Already has a presence in the US and UK.
- **Product depth**: Continuing to build out the five-layer platform to deepen automation and expand the scope of AI agents.
- **Talent scaling**: Rapidly growing headcount (87 employees, +428.6% YoY) across engineering, sales, implementation, and operations.

## Why Work Here
- **High-growth environment**: 428.6% YoY headcount growth means significant ownership, impact, and career acceleration for early hires.
- **Mission-driven work**: Employees describe it as "a rare chance to build something that truly matters" alongside people who "raise your standards for the rest of your career."
- **Strong engineering culture**: Founded by a CTO with expertise in machine learning; building the world's first multi-agent procurement system.
- **Premier benefits package**: Top-notch Apple equipment, Employee Stock Options (SOPs), EGYM Wellpass, Mobility Allowance, Breakfast/Dinner/Shakes & Snacks provided.
- **Culture**: "Lions" — a culture of celebrating milestones with true team spirit. Values-driven environment (specific values not publicly detailed).
- **Work policy**: Not explicitly stated as remote/hybrid/office, but headquartered in Munich with roles listed across Germany, US, and UK. Likely hybrid given the collaborative startup environment.
- **Notable perks**: Employee Stock Options (SOPs), premium equipment, meals on-site, wellness pass.

## Sources
1. [lio.ai](https://lio.ai/)
2. [lio.ai/about-us](https://lio.ai/about-us)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://de.linkedin.com/company/lio-ai)
4. [Y Combinator Profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lio)
5. [Careers Page (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lio)

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