Head of Recruiting · Amsterdam / Paris →

Structure Financial, Inc.; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 148,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct access to founders

Ownership from day one

Market-rate day rate (TJM)

Job summary

Structure Financial, Inc. is seeking a Head of Recruiting for a hands-on, freelance mission to build and run a disciplined hiring function without hand-holding. The role covers both Amsterdam and Paris, with on-site work and direct interaction with founders to raise hiring standards.

You will transform a loose set of conversations into a structured machine that produces strong candidates and clear outcomes, then scale recruiting into a strategic advantage for the company.

Qualifications

• Experience building end-to-end recruiting processes in fast-moving environments.
• Proven ability to create structured hiring pipelines and criteria.
• Strong judgment and taste for talent with rigorous standards.
• Ability to work directly with founders and tighten hiring standards over time.

Responsibilities

• Own recruiting end to end across technical and non-technical roles.
• Build recruiting function from scratch with process, tooling, workflows, interview ops, and candidate communications.
• Create clear hiring pipelines with defined stages, owners, actions, and decisions.
• Maintain control of candidate flow, interview logistics, follow-ups, and status changes.
• Screen for quality, motivation, and fit before founder interviews.
• Work with founders to define roles and calibrate candidate quality over time.
• Run a fast, organized, high-signal process and reduce drift.
• Manage external recruiters with high standards and tight oversight.
• Track pipeline health, bottlenecks, and throughput; continuously improve the system.

Skills

Recruiting operations

Talent acquisition

Hiring systems

Process governance

Executive collaboration

Job description

We need a Head of Recruiting who can build and run our hiring function without hand-holding.

This is a freelance mission, not a salaried position.

This is a hands-on role for someone who knows how to create order, impose structure, and drive a process all the way through. You will be responsible for turning hiring from a loose collection of conversations, recruiters, interviews, and follow-ups into a disciplined machine that produces strong candidates and clear outcomes.

We are a early-stage startup in Amsterdam and Paris. We move fast, we care a lot about talent density, and we do not have patience for sloppy execution. If you need a large HR department, layers of process, or constant consensus to get things done, this is not the job.

Your job is simple to describe and hard to do: understand what great looks like, attract the right people, keep the pipeline under control, drive candidates through it with rigor, and make sure the founders only spend time with serious, high-quality candidates who have been properly vetted.

Over time, this should become more than a recruiting function. Done well, it becomes a strategic advantage for the company.

Key responsibilities

• Own recruiting end to end across technical and non-technical roles
• Build the recruiting function from scratch, including process, tooling, workflows, interview operations, and candidate communications
• Create clear hiring pipelines with defined stages, owners, next actions, and decision points
• Keep complete control over candidate flow, interview logistics, follow-ups, and status changes
• Screen candidates for quality, motivation, communication, and role fit before they reach founder interviews
• Work directly with founders to define roles, calibrate candidate quality, and tighten hiring standards over time
• Run a process that is fast, organized, and high-signal
• Eliminate ambiguity, dropped balls, ghosting, and process drift
• Use external recruiters where useful, manage them tightly, and hold them to a high bar
• Track pipeline health, conversion, bottlenecks, and throughput
• Continuously improve the system so we hire better people with less wasted time

Qualifications

• Strong experience in recruiting operations, talent acquisition, or building hiring systems in demanding environments
• Ideally experience in startups, finance, professional services, or adjacent high-performance environments
• You are an operator, not a coordinator
• You know how to run a process, enforce standards, and close loops
• You have strong judgment and real taste for talent
• You are obsessively organized and do not let important things slip
• You take ownership naturally; when something is unclear, broken, or missing, you fix it
• You are comfortable working directly with founders and handling sharp feedback
• You do not need bureaucracy to function
• You are based in Amsterdam or Paris and willing to work on-site

What we offer

• Real ownership from day one
• Direct access to founders and direct influence on who joins the company
• The chance to build the recruiting function properly instead of inheriting a bloated corporate process
• A high-standards environment with people who care about performance
• Market-competitive day rate (TJM), set per mission and invoiced by you.