Senior Talent Acquisition Lead — Quantum Startup (Remote)

Alice & Bob; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

BSPCE plan

Direct IP compensation bonuses

Flexible remote policy

Parental plan with crèche support

Urban Sports Club membership

Mental health support

Job summary

Alice & Bob is a fast-growing quantum startup in France seeking a Talent Acquisition Specialist to own end-to-end recruitment for tech and business roles. You will partner with hiring managers to define needs, optimize ATS and analytics, and build proactive sourcing strategies for a scaling organization.

You will also develop dashboards, track KPIs, and contribute to employer branding while helping shape hiring practices in a pioneering quantum company with a flexible remote policy.

Qualifications

• Experience: 4–6 years in Talent Acquisition, preferably in startup or fast-scaling tech
• Strong experience managing end-to-end hiring, especially in tech and/or product roles
• Data-minded with ability to translate insights into actions
• Hands-on with ATS and sourcing tools such as Lever, Teamtailor, LinkedIn Recruiter

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruitment for tech and business roles
• Partner with hiring managers to define hiring needs and improve decision-making
• Manage and optimize the ATS and recruiting tools (automation, workflows, reporting)
• Track, analyze, and improve recruiting KPIs (time-to-hire, pipeline health, etc.)
• Develop sourcing strategies tailored to a startup environment
• Build dashboards and reports to raise visibility into hiring performance
• Contribute to employer branding and talent attraction initiatives

Skills

End-to-end hiring

Data analysis

Excel/Sheets

Notion dashboards

Structured mindset

Tools

Lever

Teamtailor

LinkedIn Recruiter

Talent analytics tools

Job description

Alice & Bob is developing the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer to solve the world’s hardest problems.

The quantum computer we envision building is based on a new kind of superconducting qubit: the Schrödinger cat qubit 🐈⬛. In comparison to other superconducting platforms, cat qubits have the astonishing ability to implement quantum error correction autonomously!

We're a diverse team of 250+ brilliant minds from over 35 countries united by a single goal: to revolutionise computing with a practical fault-tolerant quantum machine. Are you ready to take on unprecedented challenges and contribute to revolutionising technology? Join us, and let's shape the future of quantum computing together!

You'll join a fast-moving Talent Acquisition team (5 people, combining internal recruiters and RPOs) at Alice & Bob, owning end-to-end recruitment while bringing a strong focus on data, tools, and process optimization. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys both hands-on recruiting and building smarter, more scalable hiring practices.

You'll have real ownership and impact — shaping how hiring works in a growing tech company, not just executing it. In short: running the show while scaling it smartly and efficiently.

Responsabilities:

• Own full-cycle recruitment for tech and business roles
• Partner closely with hiring managers to define hiring needs and improve decision-making
• Manage and optimize the ATS and recruiting tools (automation, workflows, reporting)
• Track, analyze, and improve recruiting KPIs (time-to-hire, conversion rates, pipeline health, etc.)
• Develop sourcing strategies adapted to a startup environment — proactive, creative, and targeted
• Build dashboards and reports to bring visibility to hiring performance
• Continuously improve candidate experience and hiring processes
• Contribute to employer branding and talent attraction initiatives

Requirements:

• Experience: 5 - 7 years in Talent Acquisition, ideally in a startup or fast-scaling tech environment
• Recruitment skills: Strong experience managing end-to-end hiring, especially in tech and/or product roles
• Data mindset: Comfortable analyzing recruitment data and translating insights into actions
• Tools: Hands-on experience with ATS (e.g. Lever, Teamtailor) and sourcing tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, talent analytics tools, etc.)
• Analytical skills: Advanced Excel/Google Sheets; knowledge of dashboards (e.g. Notion) is a plus
• Soft skills: Structured, proactive, business-oriented, and comfortable in a fast-paced environment
• Mindset: Builder mentality, you don’t just use processes, you improve them
• Nice to have: Experience scaling hiring processes in a small team; Interest in AI applied to recruiting; experience working closely with leadership in a startup context

Recruitment process:

• Screening Call with Sylamite, Talent Acquisition Specialist (30 min)
• Hiring Manager Interview with Giusy (45 min)
• Technical Interview/Presentation with the Team (90 min)
• Leadership Interview + Fit Interview (60 min)
• Reference check

Benefits:

- Our success is your success: own it with our BSPCEplan

- Direct IP Compensation:Earn substantial bonuses for driving the core patents that define our quantum architecture.

- Flexibleremotepolicy, up to 40 % a month

- A Parental planincluding additional benefits such as crèche support or additional days-off to take care of under 12 years old children

- Subsidized membership withUrban Sports Club

- Mental healthsupport withmoka.care

- 25-day vacation policy (as per French law) + RTT

- Half of transportation cost coverage (as per French law), or yearly allowance for the die-hard bicycle users

- Competitive health coverage, with Alan.

- Meal vouchers with Swile, as well as access to a fully equipped and regularly stocked kitchen

- French language courses covered by the company for those interested

Researchshows that women might feel hesitant to apply for this job if they don't match 100% of the job requirements listed. This list is a guide, and we'd love to receive your application even if you think you're only a partial match. We are looking to build teams that innovate, not just tick boxes on a job spec.

You will join of one of the most innovative startups in France at an early stage, to be part of a passionate and friendly team on its mission to build the first universal quantum computer!

We love to share and learn from one another, so you will be certain to innovate, develop new ideas, and have the space to grow.