Senior HR Manager

JOIN YOUSICIAN

Yousician is on a mission to make musicality as common as literacy. We build products that help millions of people learn to play, stay consistent, and actually enjoy the process. GuitarTuna and Yousician together reach tens of millions of players every month, and we are just getting started. We are a small team that moves fast, uses AI across everything, and cares a lot about the quality of what we ship. You do not need to be a musician to work here. You do need to be someone who takes ownership, tolerates ambiguity, and wants to work on something that genuinely matters to the people using it. If that sounds like your kind of place, read on.

WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY

You will be the most senior HR person at Yousician. You will own the full people function with a small team around you: one HR/Office Manager and a part-time recruiter. No big department to hide behind and high ownership from day one. We are a Finnish music tech company going through a real growth transformation. We are leaning into AI across everything we do, cutting process debt, and building a company that can move fast with a lean team. HR is not exempt from that expectation.

What you will own

• HR Operations and Employee Lifecycle
  You own the full employee lifecycle end to end: onboarding, offboarding, performance, development, and day-to-day employee support. You run it hands-on and you make it run well. You are the person managers call when something is hard, and you give them a straight answer. You translate legal requirements into practical, clear internal processes rather than hiding behind policy documents.
• HRIS and Systems 
  You are the system owner for Rippling. You keep it clean, use it properly, and get more out of it than most people would. Data accuracy, process efficiency, and reporting capability are your responsibility. You find ways to automate what should be automated, and you have strong opinions about which tools help and the initiative to implement them.
• People Development 
  You support leaders in building high-performing, engaged teams. You plan and drive initiatives around learning, development, and career growth. You coach managers on feedback, people leadership, and team development, and you do it in a way that actually changes behavior rather than just ticking a box.
• Performance Management 
  You own the performance management framework: goal-setting, review cycles, development conversations. You make sure expectations are clear, fair, and consistently applied across the company. When the process is not working, you fix it.
• Process and Organizational Development 
  You identify operational gaps and build practical solutions. You develop scalable HR processes and policies that fit a company our size, not a 500-person enterprise. You support organizational change and transformation without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
• AI-Augmented Ways of Working
  You use AI tools as a matter of course, not as a novelty. Where a bigger team might throw headcount at a problem, you find a smarter way. This is not optional: it is central to how we expect this role to operate.

Who you are

• You have done this before in a fast-moving tech or software company. You know what lean looks like and you do not need a team of five to get things done. You are the kind of person who figures it out rather than escalating upward.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and a bit of chaos. Not because you like chaos for its own sake, but because you know how to bring order to it without slowing everything down.
• You know Finnish labor law well enough to navigate it practically, not just theoretically. Knowledge of German labor law is a plus: we have a growing team in Berlin and that context will matter.
• You are genuinely curious about AI tools and already use them in your work. If that sentence made you roll your eyes, this is probably not the right role.
• You can hold a strategic conversation with the CEO in the morning and sort out a payroll question in the afternoon without either feeling beneath you.

What we offer

A real scope of ownership in a company that is going somewhere interesting. You will have direct access to leadership, a seat at the table on org design decisions, and the freedom to build the people function the way you think it should be built. We are not looking for someone to maintain a system. We are looking for someone to improve it.

Competitive compensation, Helsinki HQ, hybrid working.

HOW TO APPLY

Send us your application and CV (in English). Let's make the world a more musical place together! #rockon

ABOUT US 

Yousician is the world’s largest music-tech company, with millions of users worldwide. Based in Helsinki, Finland, Yousician is home to the category-defining Yousician and GuitarTuna apps. Yousician, the #1 platform to learn and play music, makes learning fun, easy, and more accessible for everyone. Yousician’s innovative, award-winning technology listens to you play and gives instant feedback. With interactive, gamified lessons and songs, and courses by world-famous artists like Metallica and Jason Mraz, Yousician empowers people to play music they love. GuitarTuna, the #1 tune-and-play app (iOS, Android, WP), has won numerous international business awards, including WIRED’s hottest Finnish start-up, SXSW, Midem, Launch.edu, and educational awards such as Sunday Times 'World's best apps' and Best European Learning Game. Today Yousician employs 140+ professionals from nearly 30 nationalities. We're hiring, so come join our amazing team and help us make the world a more musical place!

Shaping Music Together - With Every Voice

At Yousician, we’re on a mission to make musicality as common as literacy, and key to that is building a team as diverse as the people we serve. As part of our ongoing journey towards building a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture and in accordance with our core values, we welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background, age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, family status, education, socioeconomic status or any other characteristic. People with severe disabilities will be given preference if equally qualified.

If you have a disability, special needs, or require any specific needs or support during the application process, please feel welcome to inform us and we’ll gladly provide the support you need during the application and interview process.

We’re here to make music more accessible and that includes the path to joining our team.

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