Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

🏆 What’s the Opportunity?

In this role, you’ll tackle challenges that go beyond traditional recruiting. As a remote-first company, we are constantly innovating to reach globally dispersed talent and create genuine connections throughout the hiring process.

You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping new teams, understanding their impact on the business, and developing hiring strategies that drive team and company growth. Acting as a trusted consultant and advisor, you’ll provide insights on market trends, share data-driven recommendations, and showcase your expertise in innovative sourcing techniques.

Our People team is small but mighty, with a mission to become a best-in-class team that attracts and nurtures exceptional talent worldwide. From day one, you’ll have the opportunity to bring your expertise, take ownership, and make a meaningful impact.

This is a unique, entrepreneurial opportunity to be driving the digitalization of air freight and logistics in a fast-growing Series B company backed by leading Venture Capital firms including Index and Bessemer.

🌍 You can work from (almost) anywhere in Europe and South Africa. Please check here if the country you are in is on our hiring list. We are a remote company, but regularly meet in person, too.

At cargo.one, we foster a positive, diverse, hard-working and feedback-heavy culture, with a strong dose of playfulness. Join us now and transform the way airlines sell cargo!

🎬 A snapshot of what you will be doing here:

• You will work with senior leadership and hiring managers to architect our hiring strategy and own high-impact searches, shaping the teams that define the future of our company.

• You'll influence hiring decisions at the highest levels and build scalable recruitment processes that fuel our growth. You’ll ensure we hire the right talent at the right time to support our business growth. 

• Acting as a trusted partner to our leadership team and hiring managers, you will ensure you fundamentally understand the business and synthesize that with your subject matter expertise to bring hiring strategies that accelerate team performance and long-term company success.

• Your insights on market trends and talent data will help shape our workforce planning. You own our hiring practices and coach hiring managers on hiring practices and interview techniques as we grow globally, always aiming for best in class. 

• Bringing creativity and innovation to sourcing:  you’ll actively find and attract the best talent with innovative approaches and guide them through an exceptional candidate journey.

• Optimising a remote-first hiring approach that will set industry standards for hiring remotely.

• Building strategic talent pipelines by engaging with universities, industry groups, and communities to proactively attract and retain top talent.

• Leveraging data to drive hiring effectiveness and decisions, including maintaining and monitoring KPIs.

• Driving pre-onboarding processes and beyond, ensuring new hires have a smooth transition into the company.

• Supporting People team projects, streamlining processes, and implementing new tools to enhance hiring efficiency and scalability.

• You will be a key voice in shaping our employer brand and talent positioning, ensuring we attract world-class talent. Your ideas will directly influence how we market ourselves to candidates and retain top performers.

🙋🏽‍♀️ What you’ll need:

• At least 5 years of recruitment experience, ideally in a mix of agency and fast paced in-house recruitment.

• Previous experience in a high growth start-up, scale-up or tech company.

• Experience of having recruited top talent in multiple locations.

• A proactive, independent, and self-motivated approach, with the ability to manage multiple hiring processes at once and deliver exceptional results.

• Growth mindset, high drive and willingness to be scrappy, work with ambiguity and adapt. 

• Confidence and experience in coaching and working with hiring managers at various seniority levels.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, balancing hiring needs with a seamless candidate experience. 

• A data-driven mindset, using insights and hiring metrics to continuously refine and improve processes.

• Creative, candidate-centric approaches to sourcing and selection.

• Fluent English, in both verbal and written forms.

💫 Nice to haves:

• Familiarity with Ashby (ATS).

• Experience working with distributed teams.

• A degree in business, psychology, or a related field (e.g., business or organizational psychology).

• Fluent German, both written and verbal.

❤️ We think you will love working here if:

• You value building great relationships and trust with your team and managers.

• You see working remotely successfully as a pioneering challenge which is constantly evolving.

• In everything you do, you take ownership and get a kick out of exceeding expectations.

• You love experimenting with new ideas and get super excited when you find an opportunity for process improvement.

• When faced with the choice, you’d rather opt for the ambitious to ensure you grow, than take the easy option.

• You see the value of giving and receiving feedback and incorporate this into everything you do. 

• You are not afraid to voice your opinions and like using data to back them up.

✨ We are currently offering the following benefits globally:

• Home office budget of €650 which can be used to purchase items such as a desk, chair, mouse, keyboard & monitor, etc. in addition to the laptop that we will have delivered to you prior to your starting date.

• Offsite fun & team trips since there’s nothing more important than culture and team spirit. We meet twice a year as a company and also have opportunities to  meet as a team. Click here to watch a video from one of our early offsite events.

• Unlimited co-working options through our partner desana all around the world.

• 24 paid vacation days on top of the bank holidays.

🤔 What is so exciting about working in the air cargo industry?

Imagine a world without a Skyscanner or Kayak when trying to book your next holiday. That is exactly where the air cargo industry finds itself today.  With the backing of internationally prominent investors, we are shaping the future of how the air cargo industry will work by providing a tech solution for a currently very manual and time-intensive process for airlines and freight forwarders to book air cargo, an industry which is worth almost $123bn. Our solution allows users to transparently and efficiently search for and book air cargo within seconds! If you want to be part of a company pioneering the way in the future of air cargo, get in touch!

📚 Curious to know more?

• Read more about connecting the world’s air cargo markets to make them more productive and successful.

• Get to know Siena and Alex from the cargo.one team and find out more about daily challenges, most significant achievements and personal motivations. 

• View cargo.one latest news.

• Click here to view a video from one of our offsites.