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# People Partner Lead, Germany & Sweden at Neko Health

- **Company:** [Neko Health](https://feeny.ai/companies/neko-health)
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neko-health/93296dfb-cc67-4b6a-803e-7b32e620ab4c

## Job description

Mission Neko is redefining what prevention means, from treating illness when it arrives, to sustaining health before it's ever at risk. Our mission: make data-driven, preventative care accessible to more people, before symptoms appear.

In a single, non-invasive visit under an hour, proprietary technology and direct clinical care combine to deliver personalised, actionable insights. It's a team that thinks in 10x, not 10%. Every role here plays a part in building a world where prevention is the norm, and where your work genuinely helps people live longer, healthier lives.

## Role Purpose

You’ll help build Neko’s clinical organisation in Germany from the ground up, and then lead the people strategy that helps it scale. Neko’s clinics are where our mission comes to life. The experience members have is shaped by the teams behind it, making the organisation itself one of the most important products we build. In Germany, this organisation doesn’t exist yet. Before the first clinic opens, you’ll help define clinical roles, workforce planning, compensation, and the employee experience that attracts exceptional talent. Then, as clinics launch and grow, you’ll partner with leaders to ensure those teams perform, develop, and scale successfully. This is a rare opportunity to build an organisation from day one – and to shape what it becomes as Neko brings prevention-first healthcare to another market.

What you'll do in the first 6-12 Months Phase one: build the foundation, pre-launch

- Ensure the German employment framework is appropriately set up with legal, external counsel, key internal teams, like People Ops and Workforce Planning – contracts, working-time and rostering models, pay structures, policies, payroll and people systems
- Design the clinic organisation from a blank sheet, and a staffing model sized to Neko’s ambition for the market rather than to the first clinic
- Own the launch workforce plan, the cover and contracting model, and reward in a German context – pay, pension, equity
- Build a German clinical employer proposition from zero with TA, and a playbook the next market can reuse

Build for German employment structures from day one

- Design workforce policies (scheduling, pay, performance) with German labor law and employee representation requirements in mind from the start
- Work with legal counsel to determine the right structure for German clinic operations
- Ensure people systems and tools are built to comply with German labor regulations

Phase two: run clinical people strategy live

- Be the day-to-day People partner across German clinical leadership, from senior operations and medical leaders through to frontline clinic managers
- Spend real time in clinics, and read what members experience there as signal about how teams are resourced, structured and led – spotting strain, inconsistency or risk early, because it usually shows up in the clinic room before it shows up in the data
- Coach clinic leaders through hiring, performance and the conversations that are hard but important – and build the leadership capability and multi-way feedback culture that keep employee relations issues from piling up, while supporting teams and leaders through the ones that do
- Support first-time clinic managers as they build confidence, capability and steady leadership habits
- Hold the staffing model against the growth plan: German absence, leave and part-time realities, the clinical qualification and mobility pipeline, and honesty when the plan and the labour market disagree
- Turn central People programmes into clinic-ready practice, and call out where a centralised approach misses frontline reality
- Revisit what you built pre-launch as clinics run, and put data and AI to work in how the People agenda actually operates – sharper decisions, less manual effort, more time on the judgement calls
- Take change from decision to genuine adoption, bringing clinic teams with you without pausing delivery to do it

Beyond Germany

- Help drive the global People Partner team’s clinical strategy rather than just feed into it
- Bring the German clinical reality into that team's agenda, so decisions made at scale hold up on the ground
- Support the wider European market as it grows, and other markets as needed

## Minimum Requirements

- 8+ years as a senior People or HR Business Partner leader, across senior levels of leadership and frontline leaders of larger teams
- A builder's mindset – comfortable starting from a blank sheet, having opened or scaled operations in Germany or built a German people function from close to nothing
- Deep, practical command of German employment law and co-determination, with the judgement to know when to bring in counsel
- Germany is the core requirement; multi-market European experience is strongly preferred – you have worked across more than one European employment landscape (Sweden a significant plus) and know what scales beyond a single market
- Has built a staffing model that had to scale on an opening cadence, and has localised reward in Germany – pay, pension, equity
- Comfortable in both phases – the ambiguity of pre-launch and the discipline of running something live
- Moves at the pace of the business and leads people through change – you have taken teams through reorganisations, new operating models or rapid scaling, and kept trust and delivery intact while doing it
- A local delivery mandate and a real seat in cross-market strategy, held at the same time, at pace
- Fluent with people data and using AI in your own work, and ties people decisions to what members actually experience in the room
- Fluent German and English, based in Berlin, and ready to spend regular time in clinics

## About Neko Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Neko Health is a healthcare technology company that has engineered a proprietary, data-driven preventive health scan to detect early signs of disease in otherwise healthy individuals.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Stockholm, Sweden
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Daniel Ek (Co-founder, also founder/CEO of Spotify) and Hjalmar Nilsonne (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Healthcare Technology, Preventive Medicine, Clinical Diagnostics
- Target customers: B2C – Health-conscious individuals; B2B Potential – Self-insured employers
- Mission or purpose statement: “To provide healthcare that’s proactive instead of reactive – so that people can live longer, healthier lives.”

## Products & Services
- **[The Neko Health Scan]**: A 60-minute, full-body health check that captures millions of data points across the skin, heart, blood, and circulation using four proprietary devices (Derma, Spectrum, Echo, and Neko Lens). Includes an unrushed consultation with a doctor where results are discussed immediately. The scan is priced at approximately 2750kr (~$260) in Sweden and is designed for asymptomatic, healthy individuals looking for prevention.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (as of mid-2026).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – **$325.1M** (one prior funding round).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by “investors who have built and scaled some of the most ambitious technology companies of the last two decades” (individual names not publicly listed on career page). The company has strong ties to the tech and startup ecosystem.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 1,000 employees (more than half in clinical roles). Aggressive expansion with active clinic locations in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Stockholm, and plans for more. Job postings have increased +344.4% year-over-year (as of mid-2026), indicating rapid scaling.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Hardware**: All four scanning devices are designed, engineered, and assembled in-house in Stockholm, creating a hard-to-replicate technological moat.
- **Integrated Clinical Model**: Unlike traditional clinics or digital health apps, Neko combines its proprietary hardware with on-site doctors, clinical researchers, and data science under one roof with a low patient volume per doctor ( ~9 members/day vs. 30+ in standard care). This enables a focus on prevention, not just treatment.
- **Data Moat**: The system captures millions of structured data points per scan, allowing for peer benchmarking and longitudinal tracking over years, creating a powerful, network-effect dataset for preventive health insights.
- **Leadership**: Co-founded by Daniel Ek (Spotify) and Hjalmar Nilsonne.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Scan Room**: Neko is actively testing a second-generation modular scan room platform designed to capture more signals and scale to new locations.
- **Global Expansion**: Opening new clinics across the UK and Europe, with a clear intent to make the service more accessible.
- **Clinical Research & Governance**: Continued focus on validating their devices with clinical studies and building a clinical leadership team (including ex-NHS and Amazon Health executives) to establish preventive care as a formal clinical discipline.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company was founded to solve the fundamental problem of late-stage diagnosis by focusing on prevention. The work is presented as having a direct, positive impact on human longevity.
- **Culture & Engineering**: The company actively showcases a deep engineering culture where “clinical insight can become a hardware iteration overnight.” Clinicians and engineers share the same floor, fostering rapid iteration and innovation.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Salaries are benchmarked via market research. Benefits include comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance, 401K, Paid Time Off, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, CME Days, and Commuter Benefits.
- **Work Model**: Roles are **on-site** at specific clinic locations. Training for medical roles is fully paid. The interview process is designed to give candidates a feel for the culture and mission.
- **Growth Trajectory**: With 80+ active job postings and triple-digit growth in hiring, the company is in a high-growth phase, offering significant career development opportunities.

## Sources
1. [nekohealth.com](https://www.nekohealth.com/en)
2. [nekohealth.com](https://www.nekohealth.com/us/en/about)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nekohealth)
4. [nekohealthcareers.com](https://www.nekohealthcareers.com/)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neko-health)

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