Job Description
We build the operating system for renewables: more than 10 GW across 8,000+ plants run on the Amperecloud Platform. Growing that requires energy expertise, and it requires exceptional people. Finding them, developing them and keeping them is what this role exists for.
As
Talent Partner (m/f/d) you work directly with our founders. You own everything talent: who we hire, how we assess, how people grow, and the culture all of it runs on.
Lead: Frederik (CEO) & Florian Strunck (COO)
Contract type: Full-time, permanent
Start: October/November
Location: Berlin
*#The role*
The focus is singular: talent density and the culture that sustains it. You make sure the few people we hire are exceptional, that our strong people stay and grow, and that our values remain a working standard rather than a poster.
Within that focus, you are the third voice beside the founders on people decisions: who we hire, who we promote, who we bet on, when we part ways. You read people precisely, see early where they are heading, and say it out loud in the room where it counts. No process replaces that; ours is built to support it.
The same logic extends beyond the founders: to our decision-makers you are an advisor, not an order-taker. You read the talent market and tell them what their plans will cost, you sharpen how we present ourselves to candidates, and you build pipelines for the roles we will need before we need them.
You will not start from zero. Over the past year we built our People Guild: values translated into observable behaviors, a leveling framework with Berlin salary bands, structured interviews with an independent bar raiser who holds a veto, a lean feedback cycle. You inherit the engine mid-build, documented, with deadlines and founder sponsorship. You finish it, run it, and make it yours.
*#What you will do*
Hiring: Full-cycle recruiting for few, senior, often technical roles. Outbound-first: you map markets and build pipelines from scratch rather than waiting for applications. You run the culture screen as the first interview of every process and protect the hiring bar, founders included.
Culture: Our ADEPT values as a working rubric. Every interview, feedback cycle and promotion scores against it, and you keep it sharp.
Development and retention: Leveling, salary bands, a semi-annual feedback cycle, promotion rounds, VSOP administration, retention bets on key people.
Tooling and automation: Our ATS contract ends next year; you pick and roll out its successor. You build automations across our ATS, Notion and Humaans so manual work keeps shrinking and your time keeps moving toward talent and culture.
*#What we offer*
People decisions at a 40-person company are company decisions, and you make them with the founders
VSOP participation like everyone here: if the Operating System for Renewables becomes what we are building, that stake is meaningful
Salary band shared in the first conversation, not after four rounds
Development: educational leave, a steep curve by design
Team & culture: regular offsites
Mobility & health: JobRad, up to 100% Deutschlandticket subsidy, pension plan, Wellpass/Urban Sports, childcare subsidies
Requirements
Full-cycle recruiting experience from high-paced environments: a high-growth startup or scaleup, the talent team of a VC or PE firm, or a top search firm, including senior and engineering searches you sourced and closed yourself. Years matter less than evidence: show us numbers (pass-through rates, offer-accept rate, quality of hire after 12 months).
AI as your default way of working, not a tool you tried. You use LLMs daily and can walk us through real workflows you built: sourcing and market mapping, structured screening support, scorecard synthesis, drafting at scale. In the interview, you will show us one, live.
Automation literacy: You have connected tools via APIs or no-code (Apps Script, Zapier/Make/n8n or similar) to kill manual work. You read API docs without flinching. You do not need to be an engineer; you need to think like one about repetitive tasks.
Evidence-based assessment: You run structured interviews and can defend a hire or no-hire with observations, not impressions. A track record of calls that aged well: hires that outperformed, hard cases you named early.
German employment law working knowledge: contracts, terminations, fixed terms, works-council-free environments. Enough to know when you need a lawyer, and when you do not.
Data fluency: strong Sheets/Excel, comfortable owning funnel and retention metrics end to end; SQL basics a plus.
German (C1+) and English fluent. Our contracts are German, our company language is English.
First-principles thinker who writes things down. Default output
The process
Exactly the one you will later run: culture screen, skill assessment with a live case (bring your AI workflows), founder final.
We evaluate based on ability and potential, independent of age, gender identity, origin, sexual orientation, disability, or religion.
