People & Culture and Talent Acquisition Specialist

Talent Garden; Lombardia; Hybrid; EUR 29,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Coworking across Europe

Master programs access

Meal vouchers + welfare budget

Mum & Dad policy

Extra vacation days

Holidays on Dec 24/31

Company MacBook

Events & discounts

Pet-friendly campuses

Job summary

Talent Garden in Lombardy seeks a People & Culture and Talent Acquisition Specialist to attract and hire top talent across our European campuses, and to run people and culture practices that help teams grow, stay engaged, and perform at their best.

You will own end-to-end recruitment with AI-first design, build AI-powered sourcing and screening workflows, and partner with Marketing to shape employer branding. Fluency in English and Italian is required, with 3–5 years in similar roles.

Qualifications

• Strong AI literacy and ability to apply AI to recruiting workflows.
• Hands-on in end-to-end recruitment including sourcing, interviewing, and closing.
• Familiarity with core HR processes (onboarding, performance, engagement).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruiting process and design AI-first workflows.
• Build and run AI agents for sourcing, screening, scheduling, and follow-up.
• Write job descriptions and outreach messages with AI; source candidates across platforms.
• Lead first interviews and coordinate rounds including project tasks.
• Maintain ATS and dashboards; track time-to-hire, source of hire, candidate experience.
• Collaborate with Marketing to strengthen employer branding using AI.
• Test new AI recruiting tools and share efficacy with team.
• Run onboarding with AI; support employee lifecycle and offboarding with AI insights.
• Design culture initiatives and events across campuses and countries.
• Turn feedback into concrete actions for leadership.

Skills

AI literacy

Full recruiting cycle

HR processes knowledge

Communication skills

Data-driven

Culture & learning

English & Italian

Job description

About us

Talent Garden is a leading AI Transformation School in Europe, empowering individuals and organizations to thrive in the AI ecosystem through diverse learning experiences. With online, offline, and hybrid courses, corporate programs and work and events spaces we offer an unparalleled vision to combine work life and learning.

Founded in Italy in 2011, Talent Garden has trained over 25,000 professionals in digital skills and business innovation, developed tailored corporate education programs for Fortune 500 companies, and built a network of 13 campuses in 6 countries, hosting over 4,500 innovators from startups, corporate labs, investors, and SMEs.

The role

We are on the lookout for a People & Culture and Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our People & Culture team.

In this role, your mission will be to attract and hire great talent across our countries and to run the people and culture practices that help them grow, stay and do their best work at Talent Garden.

Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition

• Own the end-to-end recruiting process and design it AI-first, from intake with hiring managers to offer and onboarding
• Build and run AI agents and automations for sourcing, CV screening, interview scheduling and candidate follow-up
• Write job descriptions and outreach messages with AI, and source candidates through LinkedIn, job boards, referrals and our community using AI-powered search
• Run first interviews and coordinate the interview rounds, including project work assignments, using AI to prepare, summarize and compare candidates
• Keep our ATS up to date, connect it to our AI workflows and track hiring metrics such as time to hire, source of hire and candidate experience in AI-built dashboards
• Build and look after our employer brand with the Marketing team, using AI to create content and personalize candidate communication
• Test new AI recruiting tools, measure the time they save and share what works with the team

People & Culture

• Run onboarding with AI: personalized learning paths, automated checklists and an assistant that answers new joiners' questions from day one
• Support the employee lifecycle: performance and feedback cycles, internal mobility, offboarding and exit interviews, using AI to analyze feedback and spot patterns
• Design and run culture initiatives, internal events and engagement actions across campuses and countries that build AI adoption, from workshops to internal champions
• Gather feedback through surveys and one-to-ones, use AI to turn the insights into concrete actions and share them with leadership
• Work with HR Operations and Finance on contracts, policies and benefits, automate the admin work and keep people processes simple and compliant
• Build an AI assistant on our people policies and be the day-to-day point of reference for employees and managers on people topics
• Train managers and colleagues to use AI in hiring, feedback and people management

About you

Ideally, you are a People & Culture or Talent Acquisition professional with 3-5 years of experience in a similar role, in a fast-paced company, agency, consultancy or education environment.

On top of this, you are:

• Strongly AI-literate: you use AI tools every day and know how to apply them to recruiting, from sourcing and screening to scheduling, candidate communication and reporting, to get more done at higher quality
• Hands-on with the full recruiting cycle, from sourcing to closing the offer, and comfortable with common recruiter tools
• Familiar with core HR processes: onboarding, performance cycles, engagement and employee relations
• A clear communicator who builds trust fast with candidates, employees and managers at every level
• Organized and data-aware, able to manage many open roles at once and to measure what works
• Curious about culture and learning, with ideas to make a distributed team feel like one team
• Fluent in English and Italian, written and spoken
• A natural team player, discreet with sensitive information and happy to roll up your sleeves

Nice to have

Nice to have: experience with international hiring (Spain, Nordics) or employer branding.

Perks and benefits

• Hybrid work environment, combining remote flexibility with regular on-site collaboration across our campuses
• Access to all Talent Garden coworking spaces across Europe
• Free access to our Master programs and learning experiences
• Meal vouchers and a €1,000 welfare budget to spend as you like
• Mum&Dad policy with additional flexibility for new parents, a dedicated bonus, and extra leave for fathers
• 6 additional vacation days every year on top of local regulations
• December 24 and 31 automatically considered holidays when falling on weekdays
• Company MacBook
• Access to events, networking opportunities, and partner discounts within the Talent Garden ecosystem
• We’re pet-friendly, so your furry friend is welcome at the campus

Selection process

First interview. Selected candidates will be invited to an introductory video call to get to know each other better and explore motivations, expectations, and overall fit.

Next steps. For this role, there will be a couple of rounds of interviews, one of which may include a project work assignment.

Final step. The last stage in the process is a call with our CEO.

Salary

32.000,00 € gross annual salary (RAL)

Meal vouchers: 5,29€ per worked day

Welfare: €1.000,00

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