Senior Talent Acquisition Manager – Tech (f/m/d)

Cosuno

11d • Remote

About The Position

Cosuno is hiring a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager – Tech to scale its Engineering and Product teams. The role owns recruiting processes from intake through signed contract, with a first-year goal of hiring 25 people across Software Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design. The manager builds warm pipelines of senior engineers, emphasizing sourcing and referrals over agencies, and partners with technical leads to create structured, scorecard-based interview processes.

The position is hands-on and sourcing-intensive: most hires are expected to come from the manager’s own outreach and candidate conversations. The manager will represent Cosuno to candidates, explain technical roles credibly, compete for talent against large technology and AI companies, and advise on levelling, compensation, and market trends. They will establish recruiting processes and reporting from the ground up, including a monthly dashboard covering time-to-hire, conversion, and source of hire. The role reports to CTO Maximilian Seifert and works closely with Head of Product Carmen Pölking.

Cosuno offers a gross base salary of €70,000–90,000 per year, depending on experience, plus a variable component of 25% of base salary at 100% target achievement, tied to hires who successfully complete their probation period. The position is fully remote within the EU or based at the company’s Berlin-Kreuzberg office, with flexible hours, and is offered on a permanent contract.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of recruiting experience, including at least 2 years in-house at a high-growth technology company hiring software engineers.
• A demonstrable recruiting track record with metrics such as hires made, time-to-hire, and offer acceptance rate.
• Ability to manage recruiting pipelines using data.
• Technical fluency sufficient to understand modern technology stacks and roles, including full-stack, backend, AI/ML, and platform positions, and to assess candidates and challenge hiring managers.
• Proven technical sourcing skills across LinkedIn, GitHub, and technology communities, including Boolean and X-ray searches.
• Experience building fair, fast, and consistent interview loops with engineering teams.
• Strong closing skills, including winning candidates with competing offers from large technology and AI companies.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Nice To Haves

• German language skills.
• Experience hiring AI/ML engineers.
• Experience with cross-border hiring in Europe, including Employer of Record arrangements.
• Hands-on experience with Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, Clay, or Lusha.
• Curiosity about construction or other traditional industries.

Responsibilities

• Own hiring processes from intake through signed contract.
• Hire 25 people in the first year across Software Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design.
• Build warm pipelines of senior engineers before positions open, using sourcing and referrals rather than agencies.
• Partner with technical leads to design structured, scorecard-based interview loops from technical screening through final interview.
• Promote Cosuno within the Berlin and European tech community through referrals, meetups, and content with engineers.
• Advise on levelling, compensation, and market trends to help secure successful offers.
• Create a monthly recruiting dashboard tracking time-to-hire, conversion, and source of hire.
• Source candidates and conduct candidate conversations, communicating the opportunity and technical roles accurately.
• Push back when a candidate profile, process, or hiring decision is not appropriate.

Benefits

• Variable compensation of 25% of base salary at 100% target achievement, tied to hires who successfully complete probation.
• Budget for testing new tools.
• Learning budget for professional development.
• 25 vacation days per year, increasing by one day for each year with Cosuno up to 28 days.
• December 24 and 31 off.
• Fully remote work within the EU or work from the Berlin-Kreuzberg office, with flexible hours.
• New MacBook Air.
• Regular off-sites and team events.
• Permanent contract at a well-funded company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed