Talent Performance Specialist

When travelers are searching for a hotel, we want the obvious choice to be trivago! By comparing prices from major booking sites, we're making it easy for people to find hotels they want at a price they’ll love. In the lively city of Düsseldorf, we seize opportunities to learn everyday, innovate, and make an enduring mark on the travel industry. A career at trivago is a journey designed for people who crave continuous development and want to thrive in a high-performing team. Here you will find those who aren't afraid of change but rather embrace it, turning every challenge into a pathway for growth. Join trivago, work with a great team, and grow with us!

Join us in making a difference

How talents contribute to trivago's success is something we take seriously. Our Performance & Recognition team owns how we run performance management, feedback, and recognition. Partnering closely with HR Business Partners, Compensation Specialists, and leads across all hierarchies, the mission is clear: building a caring Performance Culture and recognizing our talents' success. As our new Performance Specialist, you'll own end-to-end processes like Performance Review Processes, Fairness Checks, and Peer Feedback cycles — working on establishing a fair, evidence-based performance framework. You'll thrive here if you enjoy connecting the analytical and human sides of performance management: reading the data, spotting the pattern, and turning it into actionable steps while making sure our framework continuously improves.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Own and continuously improve trivago's performance framework, including the Performance Review Cycles, Calibration, and Peer Feedback Cycles, end-to-end — rethinking how these processes evolve in an AI-driven world, and identifying where they can be simplified and made more effective.
• Analyze performance data, read the patterns, flag inconsistencies, and translate findings into clear, evidence-based recommendations for relevant stakeholders (Talent Development, HR Business Partners, C-Level).
• Connect the dots between Job Architecture, Performance, and Compensation — understanding how each topic connects to another.
• Communicate and educate talents and leads on the concepts you own, from operational details to the philosophy behind them, from company-wide presentations to internal articles.
• Partner and consult with key stakeholders, including HR Business Partners, Leads, and Compensation Specialists, to cultivate a culture of high performance.

What you'll need to thrive:

• At least 3 years of experience in HR-related areas such as performance management, career development, or talent management, with a BA/BSc in economics, psychology, human resources, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Strong analytical skills, including a solid grasp of statistics, and comfort working with structured people data (Excel, PowerBI) to surface insights and support fair, evidence-based decisions, backed by excellent communication skills in fluent English (our company language) to convey ideas with clarity and confidence to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated expertise in performance-based rewards and recognition systems, with a good understanding of Job Architecture and Compensation principles and how they connect to performance assessment (big picture thinking).
• An open and curious mindset toward AI tools and automation — you actively explore how AI can enhance your work, from analyzing feedback data to building lightweight tools that reduce manual effort.
• A genuine learning mindset — you approach challenges with curiosity, seek out feedback, and continuously look for ways to develop and grow.
• A performance mindset — you set ambitious goals for yourself and have the project management skills, determination, and resilience to take an idea from scratch and follow it through to completion.

What you can look forward to:

As you grow, so do we.

This is why at trivago, we prioritize your development, offer personalized coaching through Nilo, and provide workshops, educational meetups, conferences, free online learning courses, and access to a fully-equipped campus library.

Moving to join us?

No problem. You can count on the visa support from our talent support team, a relocation package, interest-free newcomer loan, free language classes, regular team and company-wide events to build experiences together.

Life happens.

We offer self-determined vacation (with a minimum of 25 vacation days), flexible working hours, up to 2 work from home days weekly. Additionally you can work remotely from a different location, within Germany or selected countries abroad for up to 20 days per year. You also get free access to the Heycare platform for personalized nanny assistance, and an on-campus kids room.

Enjoy your office days.

Use your daily canteen budget to share lunch with colleagues in our canteen, help yourself to complimentary snacks and drinks in our kitchens, choose from a variety of fitness options with our on-site gym, sports classes, and Urban Sports Club membership, and enjoy the comfort of ergonomic desks and focused work areas.