Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner (Technical)

vCluster; Germany (OH); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Flexible schedule

Remote-friendly

Job summary

vCluster Labs is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, Technical to lead the end-to-end recruiting for Engineering, Product, and Technical roles globally from Europe. You will drive proactive sourcing in open source and developer communities and partner with leadership to define talent profiles.

This is a first TA hire on the ground in Europe, requiring strong stakeholder collaboration across time zones.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full cycle recruiting experience for technical roles such as Software Engineering, DevOps or Platform, within a high growth tech startup.
• You speak the language and discuss technologies like Kubernetes, Go, and Terraform with candidates.
• Track record of closing hard-to-find engineering talent and building pipelines when channels are empty.
• Based in Germany and able to work across European and US time zones.
• Builder mindset, comfortable with ambiguity and refining processes for region hires.
• Data-centric approach with use of analytics to track pipeline health.
• High emotional intelligence and active listening in candidate and hiring manager conversations.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end hiring process for Engineering, Product, and Technical roles globally.
• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership as one of the first TA hires on the ground in Europe.
• Source proactively from open source communities and developer tool ecosystems.
• Champion structured interview processes and maintain data integrity in the ATS.
• Drive an exceptional candidate experience with transparent communication.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to define requirements and closing strategies.

Skills

Full cycle recruiting

Technical recruiting

Data-driven

Executive stakeholder management

Tools

Ashby ATS

Go

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, Technical at vCluster Labs, you aren't just filling open requisitions, you are the architect of our engineering capability across Europe. In this role, you will serve as the primary ambassador to the technical community, identifying and attracting the builders who will shape the future of vCluster. You will have the unique opportunity to partner directly with Engineering and Product leadership, as one of vCluster Labs' first TA hires on the ground in Europe.

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, Technical, your role will include:

• Full Cycle Technical Recruiting: Own the end to end hiring process for Engineering, Product, and Technical roles globally. You will guide candidates from the initial talent screen through the offer stage, ensuring a seamless flow.
• Regional Technical Expertise: Serve as our first EMEA based technical recruiter and build the practices needed to hire engineering talent across the region. You will stay closely aligned with the US based People Ops and Engineering teams while adapting to local market norms.
• Strategic Sourcing: Proactively source and engage passive talent from the open source, Kubernetes, and developer tool communities, including hard to find software engineers. You will build high quality pipelines so we do not rely solely on inbound applicants for critical technical roles.
• Data Driven Execution: Champion our structured interview process. You will ensure scorecards are utilized effectively to reduce bias, maintaining strict data integrity within our ATS, Ashby, to inform hiring decisions.
• Candidate Experience: Drive an exceptional experience by ensuring transparent communication. You will treat candidates with customer centric speed, ensuring decisions are made in days, not months.
• Partnership: Collaborate with hiring managers to define technical requirements and ideal talent profiles. You will act as a true consultant on market trends and closing strategies for hard to fill engineering roles, not just an order taker.

This role could be a fit for you if you bring:

• Experience: You have 5+ years of full cycle recruiting experience, specifically for technical roles such as Software Engineering, DevOps or Platform, and Product, within a high growth tech startup.
• Technical Fluency: You speak the language. You understand the difference between a container and a cluster, and you are comfortable discussing technologies like Kubernetes, Go, and Terraform with candidates.
• A Track Record on Hard Roles: You have closed genuinely hard to find engineering talent before and know how to build a pipeline when the obvious channels come up empty.
• Location and Reach: You are based in Germany and ready to be one of vCluster Labs' first hires on the ground in Europe, working across European and US time zones as needed.
• A Builder Mindset: You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and enjoy refining processes to make them more efficient, especially as you stand up new technical hiring practices for the region.
• A Data Centric Approach: You value results over tasks. You use data and analytics to track pipeline health and inform decision making.
• High EQ and Active Listening: You are an effective communicator who genuinely listens to understand the perspectives of both candidates and hiring managers.

Bonus Points For

• ATS Proficiency: Experience with Ashby.
• Domain Expertise: Experience recruiting for open source technology, developer tools, or Kubernetes focused companies.
• Global Reach: A background in hiring for distributed, remote first engineering teams.
• HR Generalist Background: Experience beyond recruiting, such as HR operations, employee relations, or onboarding, that gives you a broader view of the employee lifecycle.

About VCluster Labs

We are a venture-backed tech startup and the company pioneering Kubernetes virtualization for the AI era. We raised +$30M from top-tier VCs such as Khosla Ventures (first investor in OpenAI, GitLab, Stripe, Doordash) and are in a hyper-growth phase looking for motivated people to complement our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe and we have a remote-first work culture.

We are the leading platform for operating GPU infrastructure, enabling AI Cloud providers to deliver a hyperscaler-like experience to their customers and AI factories that need to build that same experience for their internal teams. Our platform delivers the full operational stack operators need to run their GPU data centers — managed Kubernetes, fast isolated tenant provisioning, and automated node provisioning and lifecycle management — enabling them to accelerate time to value, reduce operational burden, and maximize the ROI of every GPU.

We're the company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (10k+ GitHub stars, 40M+ virtual clusters created since 2021). Open source is part of our DNA. At KubeCon North America 2025, we launched our Infrastructure Tenancy Platform for AI — a Kubernetes-native framework purpose-built for running AI, ML, and GPU-intensive workloads anywhere, with an NVIDIA-validated reference architecture for DGX systems.

We offer the following benefits:

• Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Platinum-Level Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).
• Flexible Working Schedule: You have a doctor's appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won't have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.
• Workplace Flexibility: We're very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and we're happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.

Culture & Values

At VCluster Labs, We Value And Stand For

• Make it Happen: We have a relentless bias for action and the grit to push through obstacles. We do whatever it takes to figure it out, put in the work, and ruthlessly prioritize the actions that drive measurable impact for the business.
• Own the Outcome: We understand that our responsibility doesn't end when a task is checked off; it ends when the value is delivered. We connect our daily individual actions to the broader success of the company and our customers.
• Create Wow: We measure success by the experience we generate, both inside and outside the company. For our customers, this means impressive speed and intuitive experiences. For our team, this means going the extra mile to support one another and to continuously drive each other to new heights.
• Open Source, Open Mind: We are actively contributing to and maintaining open-source projects. Internally, we foster meritocracy — the strongest ideas win, no matter who or where they come from.
• Build Tomorrow’s Standards, Intentionally: We don't just ship software; we define the state-of-the-art of tomorrow. We are fearless in tearing down old approaches to build something better, but we are disciplined in how we do it because we know our users rely on our technology to run mission-critical infrastructure platforms.