(Senior) Talent Acquisition Partner

TLDR

Play a key role in talent acquisition by finding and securing top talent, collaborating closely with leadership, and contributing to a high-performing team environment.

Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to intelligence. We’re building a fully featured European AI cloud - with everything one needs to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models at scale. Our GPUs run on 100% renewable energy, powering a more sustainable AI ecosystem.

We’re ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. Low hierarchy, high ownership, and a big vision. After raising $64M in Series A, we’re only getting started.

Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.

About the role

As we’re scaling fast, we need your Talent Acquisition (TA) expertise in enabling our growth. Our teams are not hiring to fill seats but to build high-performing teams.

You’ll be finding and securing top talent for key roles, while acting as an ambassador for Verda. The role offers extreme ownership, close collaboration with the company leadership, and various opportunities to make a big impact.

Why Verda

  • Cash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).
  • Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.
  • 31 nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.
  • An opportunity with make a clear impact and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.
  • A community-like atmosphere: we often enjoy each other’s company after work, e.g., munching on BBQ made by Ruben, our CEO by day and master chef by night.

Practicalities

  • Location: Helsinki
  • Working mode: Hybrid (with up to 4 days of office presence)
  • Start date: As soon as possible
  • Level of expertise: Preferably senior
  • Employment type: Full-time and permanent

Your responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end recruitments, with focus on technical and often hard-to-fill roles.
  • Partner with hiring managers to attract top talent and identify the right match.
  • Source and build pipelines of relevant profiles ahead of demand.
  • Offer great candidate experience, ensuring top-notch communication and timely feedback.
  • Act as an ambassador for Verda in the talent market: building relationships, networking, and supporting employer branding initiatives.
  • Contribute to our ways of hiring (best practices, tools, metrics) as we scale.

Your key competencies

  • Proven experience recruiting globally for niche, hard-to-fill roles, ideally as an in-house recruiter in a scale-up environment.
  • Experience in partnering with hiring managers as a trusted recruitment advisor.
  • Proficiency with ATS and other recruiting tools combined with commitment to process execution.
  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with candidates and internal stakeholders.
  • Ability to  think on your feet and navigate ambiguity with ease.
  • Impact-driven mindset, with ambition to secure best hires for Verda.
Nice-to-have
  • Sense of humor and ability not to take yourself too seriously.

How the process looks like

  1. Introduction chat with the TA Team Lead (45 mins): Learn more about us and share more about yourself.
  2. Meeting with someone from the management team (CTO and/or COO) (60 mins): Dive into the hiring needs of your biggest future stakeholders.
  3. Meeting with the CEO (30 mins): Expect to back up your strong convinction to secure best people for Verda.

What's next

Apply sooner than later. We’ll close the job ad when we’ve found the right person.

Please submit your application in English through our Careers page. We don’t accept applications sent by mail.

For more information, you can reach out to Marina Ponomareva at marina (at) verda.com.

Verda is creating a comprehensive European AI cloud platform designed for builders, researchers, and enterprises to effectively train, experiment with, and deploy AI models at scale. We power our infrastructure exclusively with renewable energy, fostering a more sustainable approach to AI development.

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