Founding People Lead (m/f/d)

The role

You will build the People and Talent function as the first dedicated hire for an ecosystem company. You will own full-cycle recruiting, employer branding, onboarding, and people operations to scale the team from 20 to 100 people.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting across all departments
• Build outbound sourcing lists in LinkedIn Recruiter
• Improve employer brand across LinkedIn, careers page, and events
• Design and calibrate interview loops with scorecards and structured questions
• Own end to end onboarding including 30-60-90 milestones
• Own compensation bands and offer strategy
• Manage the People stack including contracts, offsites, and performance reviews
• Provide hiring signals and feedback to the founders

Required qualifications

• 1+ year of hands-on recruiting, talent, or People experience
• Fluent in LinkedIn Recruiter and modern sourcing tools
• Experience closing candidates and handling counter-offers
• Clear, confident communication in German
• Strong English

Nice to have

• Strong personal network into top Sales teams in Germany
• Early track record of hiring GTM talent
• Employer branding and LinkedIn content experience
• Comfortable building AI-native workflows with tools like Claude Code, n8n, Clay, or comparable
• People Ops experience: onboarding programs, comp benchmarking, performance cycles
• Background in fast-scaling B2B SaaS

Benefits

• First dedicated People & Talent seat
• Direct proximity to the founders
• Serious recruiting budget with autonomy
• LinkedIn Recruiter and best-in-class sourcing stack
• AI-native People stack
• Competitive base plus meaningful equity
• MacBook
• Sport membership
• Clear path to Head of People

About the company

A11 partners with Europe’s most ambitious startups, scaleups, corporates and SMBs to connect them with top-tier talent. The company is a next-generation procurement platform using AI matching and automation.