Senior Talent Partner - WunderGraph

WunderGraph is a fast-growing startup, our goal is to bring everybody together to build digital products end-to-end. From interface design to API implementation, we provide the platform to go from sketch to product in a category-defining collaborative experience. Developers from some of the biggest companies in the world are using WunderGraph to design and streamline their API environments.

We raised our Series A ($7.5 million USD) in March 2025, backed by eBay, Karma Ventures, and Aspenwood Ventures.

About the Role

Our Senior Talent Partner has moved into the Head of People and Talent role, so we're looking for someone to take over day-to-day hiring processes for the whole company. We're growing across every team, and you'll be the person who makes sure each of them gets great people when they need them.

This is a full-cycle role first. You'll own searches end to end, from shaping the brief with a hiring manager to closing the offer. Roughly half your roles will be in engineering and half in other functions. The other part of the job is building a talent community around WunderGraph as an open-source company.

Team Integration

• Reports to: Head of People and Talent
• Collaborates closely with: Every hiring manager across engineering and non-engineering teams, plus the CEO, COO, VP of Sales, and engineering principals on key hires.

Role Objectives

• Hiring managers across engineering and non-engineering teams get strong shortlists when they need them.
• Bring in some of the best talent around rather than just active applicants.
• Run every search with a clear brief, consistent structured process, and candidate response times under 3 days.
• Build a talent community around WunderGraph.
• Maintain a candidate-first hiring experience and process.
• Improve hiring workflows and processes proactively.

Role Tasks

Full-Cycle Recruiting

• Run multiple searches at once across engineering and non-engineering teams from intake to accepted offer.
• Conduct role kickoffs with hiring managers to agree outcomes, competencies, and interview loops.
• Write job profiles and adverts tailored to each audience.
• Pre-screen candidates and share shortlists with clear recommendations.
• Coordinate interviews, debriefs, and manage blind scorecards in Ashby.
• Manage offers and close candidates honestly without pressure.

Sourcing

• Find and engage passive talent through sourcing, open-source projects, communities, meetups, and conferences.
• Headhunt directly for senior and hard-to-fill roles.
• Write highly specific outreach to drive responses.

Stakeholders and Reporting

• Advise hiring managers on market realities and compensation expectations.
• Keep leadership updated with clear hiring metrics and progress.
• Escalate blockers early with proposed solutions.

Talent Community and Employer Marketing

• Build a community of people who know WunderGraph before they see a job post.
• Run creative, low-budget activities including events, content, and community-led hiring.

Hiring Process & Compliance

• Improve interview loops, tasks, and scorecards.
• Document recruitment workflows.
• Handle hiring compliance, contracts, background checks, and documentation with the People team.

Role Requirements

• Experience running full-cycle recruiting for both technical and non-technical roles.
• Strong sourcing skills with proven ability to engage passive talent.
• Ability to tell the company story honestly and specifically.
• Capacity to manage multiple searches simultaneously while maintaining candidate experience.
• Independent working style and proactive execution.
• Based in Europe or the UK with the ability to regularly overlap with US hours (CET/EEST evening flexibility required).

Bonus Points:

• Built or redesigned a technical hiring process.
• Built a talent community or run creative employer marketing.
• Hired in or for stakeholders in the US market.
• Handled hiring compliance across multiple European countries.

Why WunderGraph?

• Fully remote and globally distributed team with co-working space options worldwide.
• Pick your preferred work hardware.
• Discretionary PTO.
• Competitive compensation and local healthcare benefits.
• Global team retreats.