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# People Development Specialist (all genders) at Lio

- **Company:** Lio
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-23
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lio/c5d56240-7a4c-47c9-bbaa-22d09853b09c

## Job description

You’re not just supporting HR; you’re enabling the team behind Lio to grow, collaborate, and perform at their best. As People Development Specialist at Lio, you will build meaningful development opportunities, establish a strong feedback culture, and create shared experiences that connect our teams in Munich and New York.

## What You’ll Do

In this role, you will:

- Design, implement, and continuously improve feedback and performance cycles across our Munich and New York offices
- Build clear development and career paths that help employees understand how they can grow at Lio
- Support managers in giving effective feedback and having meaningful development conversations
- Identify learning and development needs and turn them into practical initiatives
- Own and organize culture events that strengthen connection, collaboration, and belonging across locations
- Drive initiatives that improve employee experience, engagement, and team effectiveness
- Act as a trusted point of contact for employees and managers on development and culture topics
- Build scalable People Development processes and tools as the company grows

## Your Profile

You’re a good fit for this role if you:

- Have experience in people development, organizational development, HR, talent management, or a related role ideally in a startup or fast-growing company
- Have designed or managed feedback, performance, or employee development processes
- Know how to turn broad development goals into clear, practical programs
- Enjoy creating engaging culture initiatives and bringing people together
- Are comfortable collaborating with teams and managers across different locations and time zones
- Balance empathy and strong interpersonal skills with a structured, data-informed approach
- Are proactive, organized, and execution-driven
- Thrive in dynamic startup environments and enjoy taking ownership
- Communicate confidently in English; German is a plus

Why Join Us? At Lio, you’ll play a key role in shaping how our people grow and how our culture develops across Munich and New York. You’ll build the feedback and development structures that help our team perform at its best while creating experiences that bring people together. High ownership, real impact, and the opportunity to build People Development at Lio from the ground up. Are you in?

## 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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