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As a key growth accelerator, A11 partners with Europe’s most ambitious startups and scaleups, corporates and SMBs to connect them with top-tier talent ready to make an impact.
We're looking for an experienced
Founding People Lead (m/f/d) to join and build the join and build the People and Talent function at one of our ecosystem companies.
As a Founding People Lead, you'll be the first dedicated People & Talent hire and own how we find, hire, onboard, and keep the people who build this company. Our ecosystem company is just past 20 people and plan to multiply that in the coming months and years, so every single seat matters, and you'll own that build-out end to end, from the first LinkedIn message to the signed contract to the first 90 days on the job.
This is not a coordinator role and there's no team to delegate to: you're hands-on in the sourcing, the conversations, the interview loops, the offer negotiations, the onboarding, and the employer brand. You build the playbook, run the funnel, and own the hires.
Join the A11 Ecosystem
– a next-generation procurement platform redefining how businesses discover, evaluate, and win public tenders across one of the world's largest yet most fragmented markets: €2 trillion in annual contract volume, scattered across 4,500+ portals in 29 countries. It harnesses qualified AI matching and agentic workflow automation to surface only the tenders that fit, analyze 100+ page documents in 30 seconds, and draft winning bids in minutes.
Backed by leading investors, the company is scaling fast toward becoming the category-defining player in European public procurement.
Own the People stack: contracts, offsites, culture rituals, performance reviews, and the internal processes that let a team of 20 turn into a team of 100 without losing what makes us us
Feed every signal back to the founders: which channels ship talent, where we lose candidates, and where the next hire has to land
Close five hires across GTM, with time-to-hire measured, tracked, and trending down
Stand up a standardized interview loop for every priority role, with clear scorecards and calibrated interviewers
Get the employer brand live and consistent on LinkedIn, with a steady drumbeat of content the team is proud of Standardize onboarding end to end so every new hire lands, ramps, and knows what good looks like in week one
Build a live picture of the hiring funnel: sourced, in process, offers out, offers signed, and drop-off reasons per stage
Please note that this position is based in Hamburg (on-site).
A11 is committed to diverse and equal opportunities hiring for all – applicants, candidates, and employees alike. We value humans – with all our glorious multifaceted backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences – and look forward to your application.
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