Job description
About The Company
GROPYUS is a technology-based construction company focused on building multi-story residential buildings. Thanks to its prefabricated building system with various design options, industrial offsite construction, and fully digitalized processes, the company manufactures aspirational, sustainable, and affordable homes using timber construction methods. GROPYUS is using scalable construction and manufacturing solutions to tap into a future market, boost Europe’s strength in innovation, while also playing a substantial role in improving sustainability.
About the role
As a young company we are in the constant process of building and strengthening our governance systems. For you, this leads to the unique opportunity to be part of this process from an early phase. Your work will directly support responsible growth -combining regulatory expertise, support-oriented mindset, and tech‑driven innovation. If you love ownership, simplicity over bureaucracy, and turning complex requirements into smart, automated solutions - this one’s for you.
As our Compliance Manager, you will play a key role in further building, maturing, and operationalizing our compliance ecosystem. You will be a key contact for all things integrity and compliance. You’ll help shape how compliance works across the company, design clever processes, and build the foundations that allow us to scale without friction.
Your area of responsibilities include:
- Level up our Compliance Management System and bring it to full audit readiness while keeping it lean, intuitive, and scalable
- Shape our company culture by fostering awareness, transparency, and a shared sense of responsibility for integrity
- Create and evolve policies, guidelines, and practical processes ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and internal standards
- Conduct compliance related risk assessments, identifying gaps and ensuring risk‑based mitigation strategies are in place
- Act as a trusted advisor for colleagues, answering compliance questions with clarity and pragmatism
- Build and deliver engaging trainings—online, in-person, creative formats encouraged
- Own Business Partner Due Diligence, including OSINT research, risk evaluation, and decision documentation
- Design innovative compliance tools and workflows, using automation, data, and AI wherever it makes sense
- Collaborate with Legal, Risk Management, InfoSec, Finance, Communications and other enabling teams to ensure alignment and efficiency
- Monitor relevant regulations and translate them into actionable steps
About You
- Preferably a fully qualified lawyer (Volljurist) with a clear compliance‑focused legal profile and deep commercial and business acumen; alternative profiles with equivalent, demonstrable expertise are also welcome.
- You have gained experience of at least 7 years in Compliance
- You know how to set up, run, and improve audit-proof compliance processes in a tech, manufacturing or real estate company
- You are excited to leverage automation, data, and AI to make compliance scalable and future‑ready
- You’re curious, hands-on, and excited to build instead of just maintain
- You have an independent, structured and highly analytical working style
- You are an assertive character with entrepreneurial and service oriented mindset
- You communicate clearly, connect easily with stakeholders, and can translate regulation into real-life guidance
- You have a proficient level in both English and German language
What we offer
- An unlimited contract with 30 vacation days.
- Flexible, hybrid work: You can work from home or come into the office on the schedule that works best for you. Feel like traveling and working from another location? No problem. Tune into meetings and work from abroad for up to 40 days per year. In addition, flex hours allow you to prioritize important moments in your day.
- Attractive perks and benefits: We offer a company pension scheme, language courses (English/German), and employee discounts with selected sustainable brands. Furthermore, our external partners in mental health support you in strengthening your mental health through anonymous private/group sessions.
- Virtual Shares Program: Participate in the success of GROPYUS through our Virtual Share Program.
- Ownership: You can truly make your mark with your work and contributions – on all our organizational levels. Find your solutions, drive and test them.
- The chance to be part of something big: Our mission is to rethink an entire industry. Join us in reinventing construction and fostering sustainable, affordable living.
- A diverse and enriching work environment: Become a valued member of a wonderfully diverse team of individuals from over 50 countries. At GROPYUS we value inclusion above all, ensuring that everyone feels they belong – no matter their background. In this way, our differences become strengths that help us grow as a team.
