About

Who's behind Hill Digital.
And who shapes the future with us.

Three generations of entrepreneurial HR experience. A team where recruiting practice and AI engineering sit at the same table. And the Hill Woltron network across Vienna, Salzburg, Graz, Munich and Warsaw.

Hill Heritage
50+
Years of HR expertise. Three generations. One digital answer.
What stays. What changes.

Expertise is what stays.

Three generations of Hill have understood one thing: expertise comes before tool. Assessment logic, structured interviews, our own audit methodology, grown over five decades.

What changes: HR professionals no longer have to do the routine work themselves, because we design, train and run the systems for it ourselves. What doesn't change: at the start of every good decision stands a person who listens and judges.

Five decades. One line.

Three generations of Hill, the step to Hill Digital.

1975

Founded in Vienna

Hill HR Consulting opens as a family-run HR consultancy with the ambition to back personnel decisions with method, rather than gut feel.

1990s

Internationalisation

Expansion into Germany and Central Europe. Hill establishes itself as one of the most distinctive HR consultancies in the German-speaking region, with its own assessment methodology and a candidate network across borders.

2010s

Hill Woltron Management Partner

Merger into Hill Woltron Management Partner GmbH. Sharpening the profile around executive search, management audits and people development, methodically rigorous, personally tangible.

2025/26

Hill Digital

Deep HR assessment logic meets AI and automation. Hill Digital is founded as its own company and brings together three services: AI-supported recruiting, AI trainings under Art. 4 EU AI Act, and pay transparency readiness. Sovereign, EU-compliant, international.

The team

Who carries Hill Digital today.

Clear ownership, short paths. Three generations of recruitment experience meet AI practice, systems architecture and didactics. What we train, we run ourselves. Technically grounded. Human in delivery.

Melanie Hill, BA, Managing Director Hill Digital
Managing Director

Melanie Hill, BA

Managing Director Hill Digital

"The third generation of Hill leads with the same values and new tools."

Combines the long-standing Hill tradition with new perspectives and digital possibilities. As Managing Director of Hill Digital GmbH she carries the entrepreneurial responsibility for strategy, partnerships and further development, and is also a Board Member at Hill Woltron. In the third generation she stands for the continuity of the Hill methodology and, at the same time, for its contemporary evolution.

Franz Hill, Co-Founder Hill Digital
Co-Founder

Franz Hill

Co-Founder · Owner Hill Woltron

"Clients and candidates first. With Hill since 1975, personally since 1977."

With the company since 1977, today owner of the Hill Woltron group. Has led recruiting in the DACH region through every technological shift, from the print ad to the AI agent. Franz stands for the continuity behind Hill Digital: the same assessment logic, the same values, new tools. As Co-Founder he opened Hill Woltron as the first living lab for Hill Digital.

Jakub Popluhar, AI trainer at Hill Digital
AI Trainer

Jakub Popluhar

AI Trainer & Consumer Psychologist

"I don't train anything I don't use myself every day."

An AI practitioner with a didactic foundation. Master of Education (LMU Munich), focused on linguistics, semantics and consumer psychology.

Roswitha Hill-Feichtl

Roswitha Hill-Feichtl

Board Member Hill Woltron & General Manager Hill Salzburg

"Technology can take a lot off our hands. Listening, understanding people and making the right decision are things it cannot do for us."

Roswitha Hill-Feichtl brings many years of experience in recruiting and HR consulting to Hill Digital. As a board member of Hill Woltron, she also helps shape the company's strategic development, with a particular focus on how technology can meaningfully support working with people.

Doris Weis-Burger, M.A., Senior Consultant

Doris Weis-Burger, M.A.

Senior Consultant at Hill Woltron, executive search and management audit.

"Experience sees what a CV alone does not show."

What matters is not just any placement, but the right match. In the living lab Doris checks whether AI pre-selection holds up to Hill quality.

Our ecosystem

Focused at the core. Strong in our network.

Behind Hill Digital sit training partners, consulting know-how, the locations of Hill Woltron, and a live pilot lab for new applications. Four pillars that carry us.

01 · Training distribution

Where our trainings become visible

ARS Akademie

Jakub Popluhar is a listed trainer with ARS Akademie and with Hill Digital. Hill Digital trainings are therefore also bookable through the established further-education market, not only in-house.

02 · Strategy and consulting partners

Who builds the plans with us

InnovaticGroup

Strategic partner for AI agent architectures and systems integration. InnovaticGroup supports Hill Digital from the architecture of agentic HR workflows through to the sovereign operating environment.

03 · Hill Woltron sister locations

Who works with us regionally and internationally

Hill Munich, Hill Vienna, Hill Salzburg, Hill Graz, Hill Warsaw

Hill Digital is a Member of Hill Woltron. Five locations, three languages, three legal jurisdictions, three labour markets first-hand. Expertise flows between the locations, lessons learned from DACH and Central Europe land in our workflows.

04 · Pilot and lab partners

Where we learn, before we deliver

Hill Woltron Management Partner GmbH

50 years of recruiting experience meet new AI tools, not in demo mode, but in real daily work. Hill Woltron is the first Living Lab of Hill Digital: a place where we test new applications on ourselves first, before we recommend them. What works, we develop further. What doesn't, we drop without hesitation.

People First

Three generations. One team. One network.

AI is the next change in HR. Not the first, and certainly not the last. What's decisive is not the tool alone, but the people behind it. Hill Digital combines three generations of experience with an operational team and a network of strong partners. That's how we accompany companies through technological change, together.

Your next step

Take a look at the trainings.

Three practice days, one of them dedicated to HR teams, plus agent and developer trainings on request. In-house or as a scheduled date, always with an intro call, always with documented evidence of your AI literacy obligation under Article 4 EU AI Act. All trainings also available in English.

See the trainings