Recruiting & People Specialist

Recruiting has become a full-time job. We need someone to ultimately own it ! As our first dedicated Talent & HR hire, you'll run the end-to-end hiring process across all open roles, keep candidates moving, and make sure we don't drop the ball as volume increases. You'll also pick up a slice of HR operations: onboarding, documentation, compliance basics: the stuff that keeps the people side of the company running cleanly. Responsibility growth possible and always encouraged, a clear growth trajectory!

Every hire you make shapes who ZeroPhase becomes. You're not filling seats, you're building a company, one hire at a time . The culture, the team quality, the kind of place this becomes: that starts here, with this role.

What you'll do

• Own the recruiting pipeline : job postings, sourcing, screening, scheduling, candidate comms
• Optimize and keep the ATS up-to the task so nothing falls through the cracks
• Screen candidates across the full range of roles: from embedded software engineers and RF specialists to BD managers and ops hires
• Write and iterate on job descriptions across roles
• Build and manage relationships with sourcing channels: LinkedIn, universities, communities, referrals etc.
• Support HR administration: personnel files, leave tracking, policy documentation
• Flag operational gaps and help build the processes we don't have yet: be a strategic lever

What we're looking for

• 1–2 years of experience in pure recruiting, HR or a people ops role beyond as well as a strong internship track record is encouraged
• Broad enough technical curiosity to screen engineering candidates meaningfully, and sharp enough commercial instinct to evaluate BD and generalist profiles
• Genuine product understanding to spot a strong candidate, catch a weak one, and ask the questions that matter
• Organized to a fault. You close loops, you follow up, you don't let things sit
• Clear, capable communicator in both German and English
• Comfortable working independently with limited oversight and agentic expectations
• Genuinely interested in what we're building: Aerospace, Telecom, DefTech, real-world impact!
• Experience with LinkedIn Recruiter or similar tools