Manager Talent Development

Role Overview

Manager Talent Development at Delivery Hero (Talabat), reporting to the Talent & Culture team. This role is based at Delivery Hero's headquarters in Berlin, Germany, operating across the Talabat platform which serves approximately 65 countries worldwide.

Company Overview

Talabat is part of Delivery Hero Group, the world's pioneering local delivery platform. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. The Talent & Culture function operates as a strategic driver of company strategy, treating talent architecture as a product designed with speed, personalization, and authenticity.

Role Purpose

Design and deliver authentic people experiences and products that build a comprehensive ecosystem of human touchpoints—from cultural rituals and growth moments to seamless teamwork—that empower employees across diverse roles, seniority levels, and country contexts to unlock their full potential and bring their whole, unfiltered selves to work.

Key Responsibilities

Experience Design & Product Development

• Design a diverse portfolio of touchpoints including cultural rituals, growth moments, and seamless teamwork that remove friction and empower people.
• Build for scale by rapidly ideating, prototyping, and testing solutions that work across highly diverse roles, seniority levels, and country contexts.

Discovery & Research

• Lead the discovery process end-to-end from problem framing to solution validation.
• Immerse yourself in understanding employees: who they are, what they value, how they thrive, and what stands in their way.
• Combine employee interviews, data analysis, and market insights to remove friction and prioritize problems and solutions based on needs and impact.
• Experience in finding and defining solutions based on research, data, and insights.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Execution

• Build strong, trust-based relationships across your squad to accelerate execution and raise the quality of decisions.
• Collaborate closely with business leaders and People Partners to uncover unmet employee needs and identify opportunities.
• Drive cross-functional execution and collaborate to own the dependency map.
• Partner with leaders and People Partners to drive adoption plans, communications, and manager enablement for launched experiences.

Performance & Accountability

• Define success and own the metrics: articulate what "working" means before products launch.
• Report honestly against metrics, including when a launched experience underperforms and needs to be killed or re-scoped.

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 5 years of work experience in Product Management.
• Successfully launched products to market or to a large internal user base.
• Experience in innovation and launching new products and business models to market is a very strong plus.
• Genuine interest in building world-class employee experiences.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding of Agile product management and solid grasp of the responsibilities of empowered product teams.
• Fantastic verbal and written communication skills, easily engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Thrive in cross-functional teams and excel in collaborative environments.
• Ability to break down complex problems into manageable iterations.
• Deeply invested in human potential and the mechanics of collective genius.
• Fast, agile, and driven approach to work.