Founding People & Talent Lead
CleraIndustrial Electrification company
Munich, GermanyLead
People / HR / Recruitment
About the role
TL;DR
Build the Talent and People function from scratch at an AI startup.
- •This is a founding, high-impact role sitting directly alongside leadership to build the Talent and People function from scratch at a fast-growing AI startup in the enterprise sales automation space.
- •You'll own end-to-end recruiting while laying the groundwork for the people systems
- •onboarding, performance, and culture
- •that will define how the company scales across the DACH region and beyond.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the full hiring engine end-to-end, from role definition and sourcing through assessment and closing.
- •Spend the majority of early time on talent acquisition, personally sourcing and closing exceptional candidates across functions.
- •Design and scale recruiting processes, workflows, analytics, and operating rhythms that enable fast, high-quality hiring.
- •Partner with founders and team leads to define role expectations, calibrate hiring decisions, and challenge org design.
- •Requirements 2–5 years of experience in Talent, People, or org development, with meaningful time at a high-growth startup or scaleup.
- •Proven ability to lead end-to-end recruiting across all teams in a hypergrowth context (e.g., growing a team from 10 to 50 or 30 to 100).
- •Strong systems thinker who can design scalable processes and execute them independently.
- •Daily practitioner of AI tools with a genuine curiosity for experimenting with new recruiting workflows.
Required skills
Talent AcquisitionRecruitingOrganizational Design
Nice-to-have skills
Performance ManagementCompensation Design
Domain expertise
aiproductivity