Talent Acquisition & Development Lead

Ephos; Milano; In loco; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

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Stock options

Growth opportunities

Top of market salary

Descrizione del lavoro

Ephos is seeking its first dedicated People hire to build the function from the ground up as the company scales rapidly. You will own sourcing, hiring, compensation, performance management, and culture across a fast-moving, high-growth environment in the photonics and advanced packaging space.

With a global recruitment scope and a focus on attracting world-class talent, you will shape how Ephos builds leadership and aligns people strategy with rapid growth, in person at our Milano office.

Competenze

• 3–7 years of People experience in a high-growth startup and as an early or solo People hire.
• Ability to build people processes from scratch rather than maintain inherited ones.
• Strong capabilities across recruiting, compensation design, performance management, and employee relations.
• Analytical and data-driven mindset.
• Excellent communicator and trusted partner to senior stakeholders.

Mansioni

• Own end-to-end recruiting: build proactive talent pipelines for highly specialised roles and manage the full hiring cycle.
• Design and implement core people infrastructure: levelling framework, salary bands benchmarked to the global market, promotion policy, and performance management.
• Partner with team leads to drive a high-performance culture and define the new team lead roles.
• Track, report, and act on key people metrics and present updates to leadership.
• Drive talent development initiatives to build internal leadership for photonics and advanced packaging.

Conoscenze

People generalist

Recruiting

Compensation design

Performance management

Data-driven

Stakeholder management

Descrizione del lavoro

Ephos is building vertically integrated, advanced packaging solutions on glass panels. We transform raw glass into electronic and optically active substrates for die-to-die connectivity, manufactured entirely within our own facilities. Our systems are built for companies developing AI accelerators, including hyperscalers and top-tier chip designers.

We have already delivered products to leading global firms, and we are currently building a new fabrication facility to scale production by 100x. This expansion is backed by a $50M EU CHIPS Act grant—the first ever awarded to a startup.

The role

You will be Ephos’s first dedicated People hire, responsible for building the people function from scratch at a critical moment in the company’s growth. As we scale headcount rapidly and compete globally for world-class talent in photonics, glass substrates, and advanced packaging, you will own the full people agenda, from sourcing and hiring to compensation, performance management, and culture. This is a rare opportunity to shape how a category-defining company is built.

Your responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruiting: build proactive talent pipelines for highly specialised technical and operational roles, lead outbound sourcing campaigns, and manage the full hiring cycle from first contact to offer continuously improving time-to-hire and candidate experience.
• Design and implement Ephos’s core people infrastructure: a levelling framework, salary bands benchmarked to the global market, a promotion policy, and a performance management process that rewards high performers and consistently raises the bar.
• Partner with team leads and line managers to drive a high-performance culture: coach them on goal-setting, feedback, and accountability, and help Ephos make the most of the new team lead roles being created across the organisation.
• Track, report, and act on key people metrics and present regular updates to leadership.
• Drive talent development initiatives that build expertise from within, helping Ephos become the place where the next generation of leaders in photonics and advanced packaging is created.

The candidate we are looking for

• 3–7 years of People experience, including a meaningful stint as an early or solo People hire in a high-growth startup; demonstrated track record of building people processes from scratch rather than inheriting and maintaining established ones.
• Strong generalist People capabilities across recruiting, compensation design, performance management, and employee relations.
• Analytical and data-driven.
• Comfortable operating without established playbooks in a fast-moving environment.
• Excellent communicator and trusted partner to senior stakeholders.
• Can commit to full time office presence. As an early-stage startup, we thrive on real-time collaboration, rapid feedback, and building a tight-knit team culture in person.
• Ephos is a demanding environment. We operate with exceptional ambition and move fast, because the market gives us no other option. We expect excellence from you, as we do from one another. This environment offers unmatched opportunities to learn, build, and grow, but it also requires significant commitment.

What we offer

• Top of the market salary.
• Stock options; granted at this stage, they can become extremely valuable.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth.

The hiring process

• Interview with our Head of Operations.
• Interview with our CTO.
• Interview with our CEO.