VP People (f/m/x)

About lemon.markets 🍋 We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses. By empowering FinTechs, banks, and wealth managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers. lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform: simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure abstracts brokerage complexity with a well-documented API, a self-service customer operations portal, and a clear regulatory framework, so partners can launch customer-centric, compliant products in weeks, not months. As part of the dwpbank Group, we share a clear goal: we enable anyone to be an investor by making investing in capital markets more accessible. By combining dwpbank’s long-standing expertise and stability with lemon.markets’ technology-first mindset and speed, we are building a modern, modular securities services ecosystem. Together, we offer faster time-to-market, modular services, and a modern customer experience that helps financial service providers stay competitive and respond more flexibly in a changing market Your mission As lemon.markets enters its next stage of growth, we are looking for a VP People to help strengthen the company from the inside out. This role goes beyond leading People & Talent. You will help us move from a setup that is already functioning reasonably well into a more mature, scalable, and consistent organization. Working closely with our CEO, leadership team, and key stakeholders across lemon.markets and dwpbank, you will strengthen the People function, build stronger leadership structures and rituals, shape culture intentionally, and improve collaboration across both organizations. Reporting directly to our CEO and being part of our extended executive board, you will own the People & Talent function, moderate key leadership forums, and help build the structures, principles, and rhythms that a more mature organization needs. In this role you will: Own the People & Talent function end-to-end, lead the team, and continue to strengthen existing foundations across talent acquisition, compensation, performance, feedback, career development, and people policies Embed and scale the processes, standards, and initiatives already in place, ensuring they are consistently lived in the day-to-day reality of lemon.markets Build and evolve our leadership setup, including Leadership Principles, Leadership Development, and other leadership-related frameworks and processes Act as a strategic partner to our CEO and leadership team on people, leadership, and organizational effectiveness topics Moderate key leadership forums, especially the Executive Board and Senior Leadership Board, driving strong preparation, focus, follow-through, and accountability Own important company-wide rituals and cadences such as All Hands, planning cycles, offsites, and other leadership ceremonies Strengthen the