Berlin / London, June 30, 2022 – HiBob, the modern HR platform that is delivering remarkable work experiences for dynamic, mid-sized and small-enterprise businesses and their employees, announces its entry into the DACH market. The fast-growing, global HR tech company is already helping more than 50 DACH customers optimize their employee engagement and culture strategies. HiBob’s disruptive technology primarily recognizes and addresses the needs of modern, mid-sized companies with multiple locations. By reducing the administrative burden on HR departments in local talent markets, companies can reduce attrition and increase productivity, among other benefits. HiBob already has offices in the US, UK, Australia and the EMEA region. 

Melanie Wagner joins as Country Manager DACH, responsible for establishing HiBob’s German presence and managing all regional activities. As an expert in HR technology solutions, she understands the challenges faced by HR managers in modern and multinational DACH companies, and is a regular speaker at industry events. Based on her multi-layered HR tech and sales experience, she will be instrumental in driving HiBob’s expansion in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and supporting customers in expanding their local presence in a forward-looking way. 

Previously, Melanie Wagner served as Regional Vice President DACH at Icertis, building their regional go-to-market strategy and overseeing all sales activities. The position followed a long stint at SAP where she was Vice President, Head of SAP SuccessFactors General Business, EMEA between 2010 and 2014. From 2014 to 2020, she was responsible for managing several sales departments at Workday.

 “The role of HR is more strategic than ever in modern companies,” says Melanie Wagner: “The ongoing transformation of an increasingly digitalized working world is primarily determined by younger generations with changed needs. This presents companies with challenges: They need to attract, develop and retain top talent in an employee market also for economic reasons.” 

To create a resiliently inclusive corporate culture that can successfully deal with the rise of hybrid teams and flexible working, “intuitive HR tech platforms like Bob are needed for use by the whole organization ranging from HR teams, managers, supervisors down to employees.  Wagner says: “Bob completes the transformation from personnel number to employee to human being in the new-work world.”

HiBob DACH will be headquartered in Berlin, where Melanie Wagner is currently expanding the team to provide customers and partners with a full-service offering, including account management, local implementation, and sales. HiBob currently supports more than 50 modern, mid-sized companies in the DACH countries as well as more than 600 international partners with DACH locations. In Germany alone, Bob is already in use in 405 offices with 13,360 employees*. The HR platform offers 12 languages including German.

*As of June 1, 2022

Core features of the HRIS platform Bob:

  1. scale as the business grows, accommodating the needs and policies of different teams and locations. Bob can be customized to HR processes for each location, including release policies and workflows.
  2. powerful analytics that provide managers and HR leaders with valuable information for planning and decision-making.
  3. talent retention through a user-friendly environment that fosters meaningful professional and social relationships, regardless of location or workplace.
  4. productivity optimization by streamlining and saving time in core HR processes, continuously improving HR performance and employee experience.
  5. intelligent, efficient, and error-free assessment, evaluation, and allocation of global compensation budgets. 
  6. creating an engaging Employee Experience thanks to social media-like user experience that promotes a new-work-appropriate corporate culture.

About HiBob

HiBob is on a mission to transform how organizations operate in the modern world of work with its HR platform ‘Bob’.  Leading the way for the future workplace, Bob offers resilient, agile technology that wraps all the complexities of HR processes into a game changing, user-friendly tool that touches every employee across the business.

Since 2015, trusted and empowered ‘Bobbers’ from around the world have brought their authentic selves to work, inspired to build the exceptional HR systems that will revolutionize the work experience for HR professionals, managers, and employees. Agile and adaptable, HiBob innovates through continuous learning loops to produce  seismic cultural shifts for companies with dynamic, distributed workforces.

HiBob is used by more than 2,500 multinational companies – including Cazoo, Hopin, Monzo, Happy Socks, Fiverr, and VaynerMedia. Organizations using Bob are able to accelerate hiring, retain the best talent, up skill and elevate employee engagement. For more information about HiBob, visit www.hibob.com