[Hiring] Senior Talent Partner @WunderGraph, Inc.

Role Description

Our Senior Talent Partner has moved into the Head of People and Talent role, so we're looking for someone to take over day-to-day hiring processes for the whole company. We're growing across every team, and you'll be the person who makes sure each of them gets great people when they need them.

This is a full-cycle role first. You'll own searches end to end, from shaping the brief with a hiring manager to closing the offer. Roughly half your roles will be in engineering and half in other functions, so one week you're calibrating an engineering loop and the next you're hiring for sales or operations. A lot of the people we want aren't looking, so you'll find many of them yourself.

The other part of the job is building a talent community around WunderGraph. We're an open-source company with a real developer community, and hiring should draw on that. Events, content, memes, a community experiment that might not work: you'll have room to try things, and we'd rather you tried.

One thing this isn't - a sales role. We don't need someone to push candidates over the line. We need someone who tells our story honestly and specifically enough that the right people lean in and the wrong ones opt out early. That includes the less glamorous parts, like a small distributed team and meetings that stretch into your evening so we can work with the US.

Qualifications

• You've run full-cycle recruiting for both technical and non-technical roles, and can walk through searches you owned from brief to accepted offer.
• You're a strong sourcer. You find people who aren't looking, and your outreach gets replies because it's written for the person reading it.
• You tell a company's story in a way that makes the right candidates lean in: honest, specific, never a hard sell.
• You keep several very different searches moving at once without letting candidate experience slip.
• You work independently and keep things moving when the path isn't clear, without waiting to be told what to do.
• You're based in Europe or the UK and can regularly overlap with US hours. For CET or EEST, that means some later evenings.

Requirements

• Bonus points for having built or redesigned a technical hiring process (the loop, the task, the scorecard), not just run one.
• Bonus points for having built a talent community or run creative employer marketing that led to real hires.
• Bonus points for having hired in, or for stakeholders in, the US market.
• Bonus points for having handled hiring compliance, contracts or background checks across more than one European country.

Benefits

• Work from wherever you thrive—we’re fully remote and globally distributed.
• Pick your preferred work hardware.
• We focus on getting stuff done, and on having fun whilst doing so: work hard, play hard!
• You can make a real difference and find lots of opportunities to grow together with us.
• Discretionary PTO: take the time you need to recharge.
• Competitive compensation.
• Depending on location, we offer healthcare benefits according to local standards.
• Team retreats across the globe.

The Process

We respect your time and interest in WunderGraph. This is why we're aiming to make the process as fast as possible. Here's what you can expect:

• 45 min discussion with the hiring manager. Following this, you might receive a small take home assignment related to the role. This is your chance to prove your skill!
• Complete the assignment and review together with hiring manager.
• Meet the founders.
• Culture fit call with team members.
• Offer.

Our process also includes reference and background checks. We aim to respond or provide feedback in 2 or 3 days between each stage of the process. We're usually hiring through Deel as our Employer of Record, except for Germany or Florida where we're hiring directly.

WunderGraph is an equal opportunity workplace; we welcome people from all backgrounds.

You can find out more about our ways of working together here: WunderGraph Public Handbook and Resources.

We’re looking forward to your application so we can grow together!