Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin. Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.
Part of something biggerToday we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.
Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe.
We're a multicultural team working from France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, contributing to a wider European network that spans Spain, Portugal.
Your hiring experience mattersJust as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine and Cegid should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.
If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you. The People & Culture team at ShineThis is a high-impact Senior IC position within the People function, reporting directly to the Chief People Officer. You will be the single owner of organizational development at Shine, shaping and delivering the programs that make us a high-performing, resilient organization: leadership development, talent strategy and succession planning,



learning, engagement and transformation. You work closely with the Chief People Officer, business leaders and People Business Partners to build the capabilities, leaders and culture Shine needs to scale, while keeping processes simple, fair and measurable. With no dedicated team around you, you bring a hands-on, build-it-yourself mindset and know when to bring in partners, platforms and expertise to extend your reach.
Your responsibilitiesTalent Strategy:Define and drive Shine’s talent strategy, translating business priorities into clear priorities for how we identify, develop, grow and retain the talent we need to scale across Europe.
Enable the end-to-end talent cycle (performance reviews, calibration, talent reviews and promotion rounds) in close collaboration with the Performance team in the CEO Office and the People Business Partners, equipping leaders to run it well and ensuring consistency, fairness and on-time delivery.
Build and maintain succession plans and talent pipelines for critical roles, working with business leaders, People Business Partners and the Performance team to identify high-potential employees and key-person risks.
Design and evolve career frameworks,



job architecture and skills models that give employees clear growth paths and managers a shared language for development, partnering with the Learning & Development team to link skills gaps and career paths to targeted development offers.
Engagement:Own the engagement measurement cycle (annual survey, pulse surveys and onboarding and exit feedback), including survey design, timing, communication and response-rate targets.
Analyze results by country, function, tenure and manager population to pinpoint the key drivers of engagement and attrition riskTurn insights into prioritized action plans with leaders and People Business Partners, and follow up so actions are completed and their impact is visible in the next survey.
Strengthen culture, retention and internal mobility by tracking indicators such as regretted attrition, internal moves and early-tenure drop-off over time.
Maintain strong data integrity in our HRIS and survey tools to enable reliable, automated engagement and retention reporting.
Leverage modern AI and workflow automation tools to speed up survey analysis and reporting, strictly within official company governance and corporate data privacy (GDPR) frameworks, including anonymity thresholds for small teams.
Transformation:Support organizational design, team set-ups and ensuring changes are clear, fair and well communicated.
Lead change management for people-related transformation initiatives, including stakeholder mapping, communication and adoption plans.
Help leaders and teams navigate change, building the processes, habits and ways of working that make the new organization stick.

📌 Senior Organizational Developement Partner (Madrid)
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📍 Madrid