Founding Talent Acquisition & People Ops Manager - Ai Startup (Berlin)

<h3 class="p1"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em>Cherry Ventures is supporting our portfolio with this hire</em></strong></span></h3> <h1><strong>Founding Talent Acquisition &amp; People Ops Manager (m/f/d) – Berlin</strong></h1> <p class="p3"><strong>Full-Time | Onsite (Berlin)</strong></p> <p class="p1">&nbsp;</p> <h2><strong>About Forgent AI</strong></h2> <p class="p2">&nbsp;</p> <p class="p4">Forgent AI builds domain-specific AI agents to fix one of Europe’s most complex and high-impact systems: public procurement. This €2 trillion market is plagued by inefficiency, limited access, and lack of transparency — and we’re here to change that.</p> <p class="p4">We are backed by Cherry Ventures and leading angels from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta. Our founding team has previously raised more than €500M and built AI systems at global scale.</p> <p class="p4">We have achieved strong early traction with enterprise customers and have a full sales pipeline. Now we’re looking for exceptional talent to build the People function that will scale our team, attract world-class builders, and establish the culture and systems that turn this momentum into lasting impact.</p> <p class="p1">&nbsp;</p> <hr> <p class="p1">&nbsp;</p> <h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2> <p class="p4">As Forgent’s first People hire, you will own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, GTM, and operations while building the systems that help our team perform at their best.</p> <p class="p4">You will work directly with the founders to scale the team from 10 to 50+ people — hiring exceptional talent, designing onboarding, and creating light-touch processes that enable everyone to do their best work without bureaucracy.</p> <p class="p1">&nbsp;</p> <hr> <p class="p1">&nbsp;</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h2> <ul> <li> <p class="p1">Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering, GTM, and operational roles: source talent, design interview processes, and attract candidates who thrive in high-ownership environments</p> </li> <li> <p class="p1">Build foundational People systems: design onboarding that gets people shipping in week one, create compensation frameworks, and implement light-touch performance systems</p> </li> <li> <p class="p1">Run the full spectrum of team operations: coordinate founder calendars, book travel, organize team offsites and remote work weeks</p> </li> <li> <p