Talent Acquisition

The role

You will own full-cycle hiring across Engineering, GTM, and Operations. You will build the hiring engine and source candidates through various channels to scale the company.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle hiring across Engineering, GTM and Operations, from role kickoff to offer and close.
• Source proactively for hard technical roles through GitHub, open source community, events and personal network.
• Run the first conversation with candidates.
• Partner with hiring managers to sharpen role definitions, scorecards and interview loops.
• Help interviewers give clear, consistent feedback.
• Own job postings, interview plans, pipeline hygiene and reporting.
• Track metrics like time to hire, pipeline conversion and offer acceptance.
• Turn open source presence into an employer brand.
• Run offers and closing together with the founders.
• Hand new hires over smoothly to onboarding.

Required qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience with a strong share of technical roles, at a recruiting agency or in-house at a startup or scale-up.
• A track record of sourcing and hiring software engineers, ideally for backend, infrastructure or security roles.
• Technical curiosity to understand what teams build and tell a strong engineering profile from a keyword match.
• Work with data and use it to improve the process.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Work AI native using AI tools every day to source, screen or draft outreach.
• Comfortable in a fast-growing team where processes are still being built.

Nice to have

• Experience hiring for open source, developer tools, infrastructure or security companies.
• Experience hiring GTM roles such as Sales, Solutions Engineering or DevRel.
• Experience hiring across Europe, including relocation to Berlin.
• Experience building an employer brand or a talent community from scratch.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation including salary and equity.
• Hybrid Cowork model in Berlin office with flexibility for remote days.
• Build the function and grow with it.
• Close collaboration with founders and team leads.
• Team lunches.
• Team events.
• Health and fitness programs (e.g., Wellpass).

About the company

NetBird is a software company developing an open source zero-trust network security platform. The team is from Germany with the vision to make advanced network security accessible for everyone.