Talent Lead

World Aquatics; Ivry-sur-Seine; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Competitive compensation

Development opportunities

Job summary

Gama, a NewSpace startup near Paris, is seeking a Talent Lead to own the hunt for senior engineers, build a scalable hiring system, and drive end-to-end hiring from brief to offer. You will source globally, coordinate with agencies when needed, and work with the CEO and leadership to shape headcount strategy and compensation insights.

You will build messaging that resonates with candidates who may not know the company, and you will establish processes to hire quickly without compromising quality

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of recruiting experience, incl. in-house, with a focus on senior technical or engineering profiles.
• Proven end-to-end ownership: run searches from brief to close with funnel metrics.
• Real experience with recruiting tooling and automation.
• Fluent English; working French is a plus for the local pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Make people want to join a company they have not heard of; craft messaging, channels and candidate journey.
• Run every search end to end.
• Own each open role from brief to signed offer.
• Source directly for hard-to-fill roles and use agencies strategically.
• Close international candidates.
• Build the hiring system a 50-person plan needs.
• Choose the tooling, set the process and track data to measure hiring success.
• Make hiring managers better at hiring: sharp briefs, structured interviews, fast decisions.
• Shape the plan itself and own the headcount plan with the CEO and leadership.
• Bring compensation and availability learnings back into org design and offers.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Hiring senior tech profiles

Tooling & automation

Candidate messaging

Tools

Recruiting tools

Job description

Our team is the secret to our success, and we are about to grow it hard. Over the next 18 months we need to hire the engineers who will take our deployable solar arrays from qualification to a factory built for 100 MW a year. These are senior, scarce, often international profiles, and most of them have never heard of us yet.

To pursue our vision, we are looking for a Talent Lead, reporting to the CEO. This is a recruiting role, not an HR role. You own the hunt: finding, convincing and closing exceptional people for a company whose name does not yet do the work for you, and building the system that keeps that working as we grow.

Your mission will be to:

• Make people want to join a company they have not heard of. Work out why a senior engineer should take our call, and turn that into the messaging, channels and candidate journey that get them to yes
• Run every search end to end
• Own each open role from brief to signed offer
• Source directly for the roles where inbound will never be enough, and use agencies where they earn their fee rather than by default
• Close international candidates
• Build the hiring system a 50-person plan needs
• Choose the tooling, set the process and track the data that tell us whether hiring is working
• Make hiring managers better at hiring: sharp briefs, structured interviews, fast decisions, and a candidate experience worthy of the people we want
• Shape the plan itself
• Own the headcount plan with the CEO and leadership team: which roles first, at what seniority, and what the market will and will not give us
• Bring what you learn about compensation and availability back into org design and offer decisions

Profile required

• 6-10 years of recruiting experience, at least part of it in-house, with a substantial share spent hiring senior technical or engineering profiles
• You have recruited without a household name behind you - at a startup, a scale-up, or an industrial company nobody had heard of yet - and you know how to make people take the call anyway
• Proven end-to-end ownership: you have run searches from brief to close, with the funnel numbers to show for it
• Track record of switching domains: the roles you have hired for map to ours, or you have shown you can learn a new technical field fast enough to calibrate candidates in it credibly
• Real experience with recruiting tooling and automation : you can name what you built, what it replaced, and what it changed
• You enjoy the chase. Priorities flip, headcount doubles, budgets don't - you find that energizing rather than tolerable
• Fluent English; working French is a plus for the French part of the pipeline

Company description

Gama is a NewSpace startup based in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris. We are developing a next-generation power system for commercial LEO satellites — from solar array power conversion to battery energy storage. We design, build, and test our hardware in-house, and we move fast: our engineers see their designs go from schematic to flight hardware.

We are a small team where ownership matters: you own your subsystem end-to-end, from first calculations to test results. We work hands-on, we help each other without ego, and we treat mistakes as data — finding out why something failed is how we get better.

We offer:

• Your work will fly. Contribute directly to the future of space exploration and Sustainable Space.
• Access to cutting-edge facilities and development opportunities in the heart of the European space industry.
• A steep personal development path, working alongside world class aerospace engineers.
• Equity package and competitive compensation.
• A highly talented, dynamic and international team.

You do not need to meet every requirement to apply. If this role excites you and you meet many, but not all, of the criteria, we would be glad to hear from you. We value potential and support growth into the role.