Talent Partner

We are looking for a Talent Partner to join our Executive Search team (X).

**ACELR8 **matches exceptional talent to some of Europe’s fastest-growing startups: we’ve helped companies such as BCG Digital Ventures, HelloFresh, Tinder, Contentful and Blinkist. At ACELR8, we create the environment and opportunities to unlock your potential. We encourage freedom, give you stretch assignments, and leave space for a good amount of successes and failures as part of your development. We expect you to be able to handle freedom and use it for ACELR8 and your own growth.

**ACELR8 X** is the Executive Search team within ACELR8. We shape leadership through community by finding the best senior leaders in the world of startups, scaleups and big tech. We customise our approach for individual businesses, combining agency responsiveness and inhouse quality with leadership expertise.

**WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?**

Working closely with experienced Team Leads, you will help drive executive search projects that facilitate senior level moves within the Berlin and London technology ecosystems.

The role of the X Talent Partner can be split into 4 key areas:
**1. Project Management**

You will be expected to help drive the success of client projects, demonstrating expert client relationship management skills, monitoring the hiring process at each stage and taking an iterative approach to improving it with through regular feedback. You will:

- Take full ownership of our relationships with our client founders and leaders
- Create project plans, dashboards, roadmaps and KPIs for each search
- Coordinate cross-functionally across the client team and ours
- Integrate smoothly into the client's leadership team and with hiring managers

**2. Community and network**
- Relationship-building: you will become an expert at capturing attention and adding value, not only for a specific role/job necessarily but in a manner that is personalised and has longevity
- Community creation: working together with our Marketing lead you will help grow our Female Leadership Community as a really high-value safe space for our members

**3. Market Intelligence**

Via reading, research and talking to the market, you will be expected to know the startup/scaleup scene and be aware of relevant developments. You'll have an ear-to-the-ground at all times and a sleuth-like instinct for change and disruption in terms of:

- new industry developments in tech and associated verticals
- companies hiring/downscaling/changing shape
- companies receiving funding (and the VC world)
- opportunities opening/ roles open

**4. Team and process**

X Talent Partners are incredible team players. We grow and help each other grow, through self-reflection, knowledge-sharing and constructive feedback. Our work as part of X requires particularly close collaboration. You will be responsible for maintaining data and processes, taking a data-driven approach to optimising the hiring process and team collaboration. You will own all the team's back-end documentation, CRM and ATS maintenance.

**Requirements**:

- At A8 X we look for organised empaths who are passionate about working at a senior level and gaining leadership expertise
- We ideally look for 4-5 years experience in recruitment (with min. 1 year experience in Executive Search), search or a related field, however, a deep-level of curiosity, ambition and exceptional communication skills are needed to succeed
- You have a thirst for knowledge and strong desire to understand the markets in which we operate, and will use that drive to source the fuel that will drive the team's success
- You love documentation and consider yourself an organiser, you take pride in finding solutions to problems and are always finding innovative ways of improving processes and tools
- Finally you will be a fan of agile ways of working and able to enjoy the pace of working in a dynamic startup environment as part of a high growth business

**Benefits**
- Exposure to multiple products and projects, learning from the best experts in their domain (Founders, CEO, CTOs, Head of TA)
- Learning budget of 500 euros and monthly Academy days, because we like to invest in your L&D
- Independence to be an entrepreneur within ACELR8, with the freedom to pursue innovative ideas that help us move forward
- Custom Growth Plan with ACELR8 GROW that will help you gain clarity on progression within ACELR8
- Very flexible hours and hybrid & office working setup, with a remote set-up budget of 200 euros
- Yearly company-wide offsite and monthly squad events
- Access to ACELR8 playbooks and library that will help you gain years worth of hiring experience in no time
- Take part in the ACELR8 champion program and grow your personal brand
- 25 days paid holidays a year, plus company shut down between Christmas and New Year
- A Macbook and an onboarding package that will help you hire