Senior Talent Partner

Free resume; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 71,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyceum is seeking a Senior Talent Partner to own hiring end-to-end for a portfolio of roles across engineering, sales, operations and finance. You will partner with the Head of People and the founders to build a scalable talent function and set the guardrails for excellence in recruitment.

You will actively source top talent, calibrate the talent bar with hiring managers, and drive data- and AI-powered improvements to our recruiting funnel while delivering an outstanding candidate experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Experience recruiting both commercial and technical roles.
• Strong active sourcing track record and ability to identify top talent.
• High agency, low ego with ownership of outcomes.
• Data-driven mindset with ability to measure funnel performance.
• Proficient with AI tools in recruitment.

Responsibilities

• Find and win exceptional people for every team across commercial and technical roles.
• Be the guardian of our talent bar and calibrate hiring managers and interviewers.
• Partner with hiring managers on role profiles and scorecards, and manage pipelines.
• Lead executive search for senior and leadership hires with the Head of People.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Talent sourcing

Data-driven

AI tools usage

English fluency

German language

Education

Leading university degree

Tools

AI tools platforms

Job description

Job Description

At Lyceum, talent is everything. We have built a team of exceptional people, and we are extremely selective because we can be: we have a big vision and strong traction, and the people we hire now will shape the company for years.

As our Senior Talent Partner, you find and win people with the highest raw intelligence, high agency, deep ownership and low ego for every team, from engineering to sales, operations and finance. You own hiring end to end for a portfolio of roles, from intake with the hiring manager to signed offer. You work directly with the Head of People and the founders, and you help build a talent function that finds the best people in the market through its own channels, complemented by selected search firms for senior hires.

This role is ideal for an experienced recruiter with an uncompromising bar who loves to source, measures everything and is always testing new ideas.

What You’ll Do

Find and win exceptional people for every team, across commercial and technical roles, including senior and leadership hires

Be the guardian of our talent bar and calibrate hiring managers and interviewers on it

Partner with hiring managers on role profiles and scorecards, and keep them close to the pipeline

Steer our executive search partners together with the Head of People, especially for senior and leadership hires

Source actively and creatively, and test new channels and growth ideas to reach top talent

Track and improve our funnel with data, from first contact to accepted offer

Use AI tools and automation to make our recruiting faster and better

Deliver an outstanding candidate experience and represent Lyceum in the market

What We’re Looking For

5+ years of full-cycle recruiting, ideally in-house at fast-growing scale-ups

Experience recruiting both commercial and technical roles

A strong active sourcing track record and an uncompromising bar: you can tell great from good and win the best

Sharp, high agency and low ego; you take full ownership of outcomes

Data-driven, creative and hardworking

You use AI tools in your day-to-day work

An outstanding academic background from a leading university is a strong plus

Fluent in English; German is a strong plus

Why us?

Outstanding team: Work with some of the best engineers in the world, coming from hedge funds, big tech, AI startups and top universities

Once in a lifetime opportunity: Early-stage company in the fastest-growing market in the world

Ownership: Shape how European AI companies access GPU compute

European mission: Build sovereign, GDPR-compliant AI infrastructure for the next generation of deep-tech

Remote full-time en 80,000–100,000 USD/yr