Senior Associate - Talent & Venture Development (gn) @ Atlantic Core Team, Berlin
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Job description
A talent/headhunting role at Atlantic, an early-stage venture capital firm, focused on finding and winning senior and leadership hires for portfolio companies and advising them on compensation, equity, org design and hiring.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Find and win top talent for portfolio companies, with a focus on senior and leadership hires
- Run searches end to end, from mapping the market to closing the candidate
- Advise companies on comp, equity, org design, and hiring, and turn what works into playbooks
- Translate business plans into hiring plans, and step in on urgent people topics when needed
- Use AI and automation to make all of this faster and better
- Sit with the investment team and portfolio CEOs to work out what team a company actually needs, what to pay, and how to structure it, then go and build it
- Own projects and make own calls
What we're looking for
- Placed the top %: found and closed exceptional people, the ones everyone wanted, in fast-growing startups or scale-ups
- Set the bar high: very, very high standards for excellence, for the people you hire and for your own work
- Ready to do more than search: want to shape how companies are built, not just fill roles, and interested in org design, comp, and equity
- Worked with numbers and concepts: not afraid of numbers, whether comp models or hiring budgets, and strong conceptual skills
- Jumped into the unknown: keen to dig into anything new, from employment law to a technology you've never heard of
- Run at a founder's pace: move fast, take ownership, and make your own calls, the way a founder would
- Worked internationally: fluent English is a must
Nice to have
- International work experience and other languages are a big plus
Your team
Venture Development / Talent
Talent sits at the heart of Atlantic's Venture Development work; the role works with the Investment team, portfolio CEOs and leadership teams, and external partners.
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About atlantic.vc
Early-Stage Venture Capital & Talent
Atlantic is an early-stage venture capital firm backing founders in AI, compute, spacetech, and deep tech. Talent sits at the heart of its Venture Development work: it finds people itself and helps portfolio companies build organizations around them, including how teams are structured, how people are paid, and how they grow.
Mission
Back founders in AI, compute, spacetech, and deep tech, often when it's still just a few people and a big idea.
Key facts
- Venture Capital
- Backs founders in AI, compute, spacetech, and deep tech
- Talent sits at the heart of its Venture Development work
- Works with portfolio companies from pre-seed to exit