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About the Role

As Career Center Lead, you will be responsible for the strategic, organizational, and qualitative development of our entire Career Center. Together with your team, you will ensure that our talents are professionally supported, specifically prepared, and successfully placed during their further training and on their way to the job market. You will lead a team of career advisors and experts, continuously develop our career journey, and create clear structures, quality standards, and processes for advice, coaching, and placement. You will combine strategic concept work with operational control: you will keep an eye on relevant key figures, develop new career services, and expand our network of employers and cooperation partners. Your goal: an excellent career experience for our talents and sustainable placement success.

Responsibilities

Strategically develop and advance the Career Center concept along the entire career journey.
Develop processes, standards, and formats for advice, coaching, and placement.
Manage central career KPIs and derive optimizations.
Collaborate closely with internal interfaces to align offerings with the job market.
Lead the Career Team both professionally and disciplinarily.
Manage staffing, planning, and operational control.
Develop the team through feedback, coaching, and further training.
Foster a high-performance, collaborative team culture.
Ensure high-quality support for talents in the entire career area.
Manage and optimize coaching, CV checks, workshops, and career events.
Continuously develop existing formats.
Ensure consistently high quality of advice and continuously improve processes.
Oversee the entire placement process from matching to tracking.
Ensure talents have strong, market-ready application documents.
Identify placement risks early and implement countermeasures.
Ensure transparency in the placement process and support the team with complex cases.
Manage the career platform and matching systems.
Develop tools and processes together with interfaces.
Strategically expand the employer and partner network.
Represent Talentspring at selected career and industry events.
Develop new career offerings such as mentoring, alumni formats, or talent pools.
Monitor labor market trends and derive concrete measures.
Integrate new tools and AI-supported solutions into career processes.
Collaborate closely with Product Innovation on new career and educational offerings.

Requirements

Several years of professional experience in career services, coaching, recruiting, personnel consulting, or a comparable consulting or service environment.
Experience in leading teams both professionally and ideally disciplinarily, with the ability to provide orientation, develop people, and achieve results together.
Knowledge of modern application processes, understanding of different target groups, and ability to realistically and purposefully prepare talents for the job market.
Experience in career counseling or coaching, with the ability to professionally manage challenging consulting situations.
Ability to develop concepts and structures while maintaining focus on operational implementation and the concrete needs of talents.
Data-driven work approach, ability to analyze relevant key figures, and derive concrete improvement measures.
Clear, binding, and empathetic communication skills, with the ability to build sustainable relationships with talents, employees, managers, and business partners.
Proficiency with digital tools and systems such as CRM solutions, matching platforms, LMS, Google Workspace, and AI applications, or the ability to learn quickly and independently.
Independent, pragmatic, and solution-oriented work style, with the ability to maintain an overview of multiple parallel topics.
Fluent German (C2 or native level). Good English skills are a plus.

Skills

Career Service
Coaching
Recruiting
Personnel Consulting
Team Leadership
Career Counseling
Strategic Thinking
Operational Thinking
KPI Analysis
Quality Management
Communication
Networking
Digital Literacy
CRM
Matching Platforms
AI Applications
Mentoring
Alumni Relations
Talent Pools

Location

Berlin (Office near Ku'damm)

Work Type

Hybrid Model (with strong on-site component)

Experience Level

Several years of professional experience
Leadership experience

Education Level

Coaching certification, e.g., in systemic coaching, is a plus.

Salary/Compensations

Attractive salary package including performance-related components

Benefits

Urban Sports Club
Mental Health Offerings
Learning Budget

About the Company

Talentspring Academy Group is a dynamically growing network of state-recognized digital-first educational institutions focused on digital professions.
We retrain individuals without formal qualifications, career changers, job seekers, and employees for in-demand digital roles through state-subsidized, digital, and certified training.
Our programs cover future-relevant fields like Artificial Intelligence, Online Marketing, and Digital Sales, designed to be flexible, labor market-oriented, and offer real career prospects.
We combine the speed and innovation of an EdTech with the reach and credibility of established educational structures.
Through strategic partnerships, we have a nationwide infrastructure with hundreds of locations, deep institutional trust, and direct access to our target groups via digital and local channels.
We are poised for significant growth, driven by a clear product-market fit, an AI-first DNA, social impact, and unique market access.
This is the perfect time to join and help shape the future of education in Germany.

Equal Opportunity

Decisions regarding hiring and employment are not based on race, religion, ethnic or national origin, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age.
Talentspring is committed to providing a safe workplace and actively combats all forms of discrimination and harassment.
We ensure that everyone can develop to their fullest potential without facing disadvantages.
We are proud of our diverse team and ensure this lived diversity is reflected in every role.