Talent Lead

The role

The Talent Lead will own the end-to-end hiring process and build the recruiting team. You will define hiring needs, manage the inbound pipeline, and run work trials for technical roles in biology, software, and automation.

What you will do

• Own hiring end to end including defining roles, building pipelines, and closing candidates.
• Build and manage the recruiting team, starting with a technical recruiter.
• Manage the inbound candidate pipeline.
• Run and schedule paid work trials.
• Pitch the company mission to candidates.
• Optimize and expand the use of the Ashby ATS.
• Work with hiring managers across biology, software, automation, and commercial teams.
• Build organizational structures including leveling, compensation bands, interview structure, and onboarding.

Required qualifications

• Several years of experience hiring technical people in a high-growth environment.
• Ability to conduct credible conversations with scientists and engineers.
• Serious use of AI tools.
• Self-starter with high autonomy.
• Fast learner of unfamiliar technical domains.
• Ability to work at startup speed.
• Good taste in people and confidence to maintain a high bar.

Nice to have

• Experience with the Swiss labor market
• Hiring in European biotech or deep tech
• Building a talent function from nothing

About the company

Adaptyv is building an automated lab that lets AI agents run biology experiments. It is a fast-growing biotech company trusted by biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and techbio companies.