Talent Lead

Your Impact

Tacto is building the intelligence layer for manufacturing. Engineering designs products in bits. Manufacturing builds them in atoms. Procurement connects both at the right quality, cost, and time - yet it runs on outdated systems. We're here to change that. Sequoia and Index backed us for the team we've built. This is Europe's chance to build a globally leading AI company, and we're at the center of it.

None of this happens without the right people. Team quality and organizational speed will determine whether we become a generational company or not. That makes talent our single most important lever - and we treat it that way. This is not a support function at Tacto. It's a company-building function.

As Talent Lead, you own that lever end-to-end. You run our entire talent engine - hiring across all departments, employer brand, talent partnering - with a team reporting to you. You won't step into a finished machine. You'll build it. Most companies do People & Talent badly. We're rethinking it from the ground up, with the same intensity and quality bar we apply to our product.

Your Tasks

• Own hiring end-to-end: Run recruiting across all departments (Sales, Engineering, Product, Design, Customer Value) with a team reporting to you. Build pipeline, enforce the quality bar, and personally close senior and critical hires

• Build our employer brand: Make Tacto the obvious choice for top talent. Own our positioning, LinkedIn presence, hiring events, university partnerships, and content strategy

• Be the sparring partner to Hiring Managers: Help team leads define what great looks like for their team, challenge their thinking on org design and talent planning, and calibrate hiring decisions across the company

• Systematize the talent function: Build repeatable processes, clear analytics, and scalable workflows. Think in conversion rates, cycle times, and pipeline health - not just "we need to hire more"

• Build community & network: Actively grow Tacto's presence in the DACH startup ecosystem. Build relationships with top universities, run events with taste, and maintain a warm network of A-players across all relevant functions

Your Profile

• 2-5 years of hands-on recruiting or talent experience in a high-performance environment - a Tier 1 headhunting firm, a fast-scaling startup with a real talent bar, a VC, or you built your own recruiting business

• You've personally sourced, pitched, and closed A-players - not just "managed the process"

• You know what excellence looks like because you've seen it up close (e.g., at MBB, CDTM, top startups, VC) and you won't lower the standard

• You're well-connected in the DACH startup ecosystem and bring a relevant network from day one

• You combine great taste with high execution speed - you can run a hiring event and close a senior candidate in the same week

• You're a strong communicator and storyteller who can sell Tacto's vision to passive candidates

• You use AI tools daily and experiment with new workflows

• Native German and strong English

Bonus: Experience hiring GTM roles in DACH, team management experience, or exposure to employer brand strategy at a startup

We know that nobody is perfect and therefore have no specific 'minimum qualifications'. If the role sounds interesting to you, we would like to know more about you - whether you already fulfill all the qualifications or not.

Why Tacto

• Growth at the frontier of AI: You shape the future of technology and reinvent how manufacturing works, surrounded by best-in-class talent and leading minds in tech. 100+ people, founded by CDTM/TUM/Berkeley alumni, backed by Sequoia and Index. We build the future instead of talking about it

• Real ownership, real impact: You own outcomes, not tasks. You build the talent engine, you see the result in every team, every hire, every quarter. The impact is tangible, fast, and directly tied to whether we become a generational company

• A company that bets on you: We hire for potential. High expectations, great talent density, and a culture where your ambition, performance, and agency are what count - not where you come from or how big your ego is

• You build the team that builds the company: This is not HR, this is a company-building function. You work directly with André and the leadership team, and your work shapes every department

• AI-native company, AI-native role: Tacto ships AI features daily. You'll use AI tools to mak