Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

• or demanding senior hiring managers and influencing their decisions rather than simply executing requirements.
• Experience translating unclear business needs into clear role profiles, scorecards and structured interview processes.
• Experience selecting and managing external agencies or headhunters.
• Fluent English; German is an advantage but not essential.

Your Profile

• You interview for evidence and have strong talent judgment. You can tell an impressive CV or polished answer from real evidence that someone will succeed.
• You know what good looks like and can credibly bring that standard into an organisation still developing its own.
• You challenge senior stakeholders constructively and communicate clearly and directly with executives, hiring managers and senior candidates alike.
• You take ownership. When a search isn't working, you diagnose why and change the approach, and you know when requirements need to change.
• You create structure without bureaucracy, just enough process to improve speed, quality and accountability.
• You learn quickly and immerse yourself in unfamiliar domains until you can recruit credibly in them.

Why Mindpeak

• Take real ownership of Talent Acquisition in a growing AI company where hiring exceptional people has a direct impact on the success of the business.
• Recruit across some of the most interesting talent markets today – from AI and software engineering to medicine, science and commercial roles.
• Work directly with our founders and senior leaders Shape and continuously improve how we identify, assess and hire exceptional people rather than simply executing a fixed corporate recruiting process.
• See the impact of the teams you build on cancer diagnostics and treatment.
• Work from our centrally located Hamburg office with a beautiful view over the harbor.

• , particularly for senior, leadership and hard-to-fill roles.
• Run high-quality interviews that go beyond CVs and polished answers, uncovering concrete evidence of impact, decision-making and individual contribution.
• Select, brief and actively manage external recruiters and search partners where they add value.
• Keep pipelines, bottlenecks and risks transparent for leadership, and keep improving how Mindpeak hires without unnecessary bureaucracy.

What Success Looks Like

• Priority searches run with clear role profiles and explicit assessment criteria, even when requirements start out ambiguous.
• You successfully engage high-quality passive candidates and build genuine interest in Mindpeak and our roles.
• Interviews across Mindpeak become more rigorous and consistent, based on evidence rather than titles or impressions.
• Most importantly, critical roles get closed with people who raise the quality of the organisation.

Your Experience

• Substantial hands-on experience owning full-cycle recruiting; a background in executive search or another environment with a strong sourcing and assessment culture is a plus.
• Proven track record of closing senior, leadership and hard-to-fill searches, with strong active sourcing skills and confidence approaching passive candidates.
• Experience in a technology-driven, high-growth environment, recruiting across functions such as Product, Technology and Business. You don't need to be technical, but you understand how these teams work well enough to recruit credibly.