Talent Acquisition Specialist

about us

Every 10 minutes, 18 million conversations happen between businesses and consumers around the world.

For decades, the consumer side of those conversations sucked: long queues, robotic menus, repeated explanations, and advice that is often unhelpful. Most people today still cannot simply say what their problem is in natural language when communicating with businesses.

AI changes that. For the first time, companies can have natural conversations with customers at massive scale. Every B2C company - from energy providers to telcos to insurers - will use AI agents to talk to their customers. The number of conversations businesses will handle is going to explode in the coming years.

At telli, we are solving the challenges that come with that shift. Today, leading B2C companies like Sky are already using telli to deploy thousands of voice agents to provide their customers with a new experience.

But building a first voice agent is easy, getting it to drive real outcomes for customers and businesses is the hard part. telli helps companies build, deploy, and improve consumer-facing AI voice agents at scale. This will become one of the most important software categories of the next decade, and we intend to win it.

We are a small, AI-pilled team that likes to solve hard problems. Be it engineering, product, or GTM - we build, experiment, and move fast, while heavily leveraging the capabilities of AI models. All of us like to challenge ourselves and take real ownership over what we do, all while still staying humble and keeping a low-ego culture.

Check out our principles to see how we work.

About the role

This is a high-ownership venture-building role for our first dedicated Talent Acquisition hire. You won't just fill open roles, you'll build telli's Talent Acquisition function from second zero and own our ability to get A-players through the door across every team.

The team we've built so far is exceptional, and we hire to a very high bar. This role is about scaling the team fast without dropping the bar.

You'll think AI-first wherever humans aren't needed, and build real systems wherever they are. You're highly versed (or learn fast) in building agents and automating away every workflow that can be, and you're data-first, always seeing the magic behind the numbers and deriving your case from it.

Build the engine

Business first, then think backwards: figure out what the business actually needs, then go build it

Build a real talent engine from scratch: sourcing, screening, closing

Obsess over pulling in the best profiles on the market, nothing below the bar

We're heading into serious growth soon, build a hiring engine that scales with it

AI-first, not a classic recruiting shop

Don't build a traditional recruiting function, think AI-first wherever humans aren't needed

Wherever humans are needed, build a real system around it, not manual one-offs

Be highly versed (or learn fast) in building agents and automating away every workflow that can be automated

Data first

Always see the magic behind the data, connect the dots and derive your case from it

Let data drive every decision, from funnel to hiring health

What you bring

Experience in a fast-moving startup or scale-up

A track record hiring strong candidates in competitive markets across engineering and commercial roles

An active, warm network across the Berlin and EU startup and VC ecosystem that you can activate immediately

Hands-on experience with a modern ATS (Ashby a plus) and AI sourcing tools

High agency: you move fast, take ownership, and spot role gaps before anyone asks

High craft in communication: every candidate touchpoint reads like a founder wrote it

Data-driven: you track the funnel and use the data to fix what leaks

You may not make a good fit if

You are more excited about managing a large TA team than building the function from the ground up

You prefer a remote-first environment

You like to work on your own with minimum collaboration

You want to work 9-5

Perks

Competitive pay & equity

Access to any (AI) tool that makes you more productive

Gym / urban sports subscription

Relocation support if you don't live in Berlin

Interested? If you want to help us build the future of AI voice technology, we’d love to hear from you!

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