Talent Manager – from 30 hrs/week

Responsibilities

• Actively help build our hiring and core people processes.
• Find the right people for Dreamlight, guide them through the application process, and ensure new team members and freelancers have a smooth start.
• Coordinate recruiting: manage open roles, keep hiring pipelines up to date, and make sure applications don’t fall through the cracks.
• Create and optimize job postings: write job descriptions for JOIN and other channels and continuously improve them based on feedback and candidate quality.
• Handle applicant management: screen applications, coordinate next steps, and communicate professionally with candidates.
• Organize interviews: schedule meetings with founders and team leads, prepare interviews, and document feedback and decisions.
• Build active sourcing: proactively search for suitable talent and test new ways to attract great people to Dreamlight.
• Build a talent and freelancer pool: maintain relationships with promising candidates, freelancers, and potential future team members.
• Structure onboarding: ensure new employees and freelancers clearly understand what they need, who to contact, and how to get started effectively.
• Coordinate employment contract processes: collect all relevant information, prepare contracts based on existing templates, and align final versions with management and, if needed, external advisors.
• Improve internal documentation: organize our wiki, document recurring processes, and make knowledge more accessible.
• Organize people routines: help structure performance conversations, feedback processes, and team-related topics.
• Relieve founders and team leads: consolidate personnel, hiring, and onboarding matters so decisions can be made faster and more clearly.

Requirements

• Experience in recruiting, talent acquisition, people operations, or a similar role—ideally in a growing company, startup, or dynamic environment.
• Strong people sense: quickly assess whether candidates are a professional and cultural fit for Dreamlight.
• Structure and reliability: reliably manage applications, follow-ups, interview schedules, and open decisions.
• Strong communication skills: write clearly, politely, and professionally with both candidates and internal stakeholders.
• Independent work style: proactively identify where processes are missing or can be improved.
• Organizational talent: manage multiple open roles, candidates, and processes at once without things being neglected.
• Interest in process-building: eager to not only manage recruiting, onboarding, wiki, and people processes but to actively build them.
• Confident use of tools: familiar with JOIN, LinkedIn, ClickUp, Google Workspace, Personio, or similar systems.
• Confidential handling of sensitive information: treat applicant data, contracts, and employee conversations professionally and discreetly.
• More important than a perfect CV is that you genuinely understand hiring as a growth lever and are excited to turn many individual HR topics into a working system.

Hard Skills

• Applicant Management
• Job Posting Creation
• Interview Coordination
• Onboarding Structure
• Employment Contract Preparation

Soft Skills

• Strong People Sense
• Independent Work Style
• Reliability