Head of Talent Acquisition & Recruiting

About WunderGraph

WunderGraph is a fast-growing startup focused on bringing digital products to life end-to-end, from interface design to API implementation. Their platform enables collaborative experiences, reducing friction in bringing ideas to fruition. Backed by eBay, Karma Ventures, and Aspenwood Ventures, WunderGraph raised a $7.5 million USD Series A in March 2025. The company emphasizes a culture of productivity, collaboration, and transparency.

About the Role

WunderGraph is seeking a Senior-Level Head of Talent Acquisition to oversee day-to-day hiring processes for the entire company. This role involves full-cycle recruiting, building a talent community, and ensuring high-quality hires across engineering and non-engineering teams.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ownership of full-cycle recruiting, from shaping hiring briefs with managers to closing offers.
• Balancing 50% engineering and 50% non-engineering hires, including sourcing passive candidates.
• Building a talent community through events, content, and creative outreach initiatives.
• Ensuring a transparent, honest, and efficient hiring process that attracts top talent.

Team Integration

• Reports to: Head of People and Talent
• Collaborates closely with: hiring managers across engineering and non-engineering teams, CEO, COO, VP of Sales, and engineering principals.
• Acts as a partner to hiring managers, shaping briefs and ensuring consistency in the process.

Role Objectives

Success is measured by:

• Delivering strong shortlists to hiring managers without delay.
• Attracting top-tier candidates who are actively sought after.
• Ensuring every search has a clear brief, structured process, and candidates receive updates within 3 days.
• Hiring candidates who remain with the company for at least 1 year.
• Building a talent community that engages with WunderGraph proactively.
• Maintaining a reputation for an exceptional hiring process.
• Gaining trust from hiring managers and leadership through data-driven hiring metrics.
• Continuously improving hiring processes, not just executing them.

Role Tasks

The role includes, but is not limited to:

Full-cycle Recruiting

• Managing multiple searches simultaneously across engineering and non-engineering teams.
• Conducting role kickoffs with hiring managers to align on outcomes and competencies.
• Writing tailored job profiles and adverts for different audiences.
• Pre-screening candidates and providing shortlists with clear recommendations.
• Coordinating interviews and running debriefs using blind scorecards.
• Ensuring timely updates for all candidates (no more than 3 days of waiting).
• Managing offers and closing candidates with honesty and transparency.

Sourcing

• Finding and engaging passive candidates through sourcing, open-source projects, and community engagement.
• Headhunting for senior and hard-to-fill roles.
• Writing personalized outreach messages that yield replies.
• Maintaining warm pipelines for frequently hired roles.

Stakeholders and Reporting

• Advising hiring managers on market realities and candidate expectations.
• Providing leadership with clear hiring metrics and progress updates.
• Escalating blockers early with proposed solutions.

Talent Community and Employer Marketing

• Building a community of potential candidates who engage with WunderGraph.
• Creating and executing low-budget, creative activities like events and content.
• Analyzing and refining community-building strategies.

Hiring Process

• Improving interview loops, tasks, and scorecards, especially for technical roles.
• Documenting recruitment workflows to ensure knowledge retention.
• Ensuring hiring compliance across countries and handling contracts and background checks.
• Maintaining useful hiring data and tools for planning.

Role Requirements

• Proven experience in full-cycle recruiting for both technical and non-technical roles.
• Strong sourcing skills, including finding passive candidates and writing effective outreach.
• Ability to tell WunderGraph’s story in a way that attracts the right candidates.
• Capacity to manage multiple searches simultaneously without compromising candidate experience.
• Independent problem-solving and proactive approach.
• Based in Europe or the UK with availability to overlap with US hours.

Bonus Points:

• Experience in building or redesigning technical hiring processes.
• Experience in building talent communities or running creative employer marketing.
• Experience hiring in or for stakeholders in the US market.
• Experience handling hiring compliance, contracts, or background checks across multiple European countries.

Why WunderGraph?

• Fully remote and globally distributed with options to work from anywhere.
• Flexibility to choose preferred work hardware.
• Focus on productivity and fun with a work-hard-play-hard culture.
• Opportunities for growth and making a real impact.
• Discretionary paid time off (PTO).
• Competitive compensation.
• Healthcare benefits according to local standards.
• Global team retreats.

Note: This is a Full-time, fully remote position requiring availability during European (CET) business hours.

The Process

WunderGraph values your time and aims for a fast hiring process:

• A 45-minute discussion with the hiring manager, followed by a small take-home assignment.
• Review of the assignment with the hiring manager.
• Meeting with the founders.
• Culture fit call with team members.
• Offer.

Additional steps include reference and background checks. Feedback is provided within 2-3 days between stages. Hiring is typically through Deel, except for Germany or Florida.

WunderGraph is an equal opportunity employer.