Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner (Global)

Role Summary

As a Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner at vCluster Labs , you aren't just filling open requisitions, you are the architect of our first hiring presence Internationally. In this role, you will own recruiting across a broad mix of functions, from go to market to technical roles, partnering directly with leaders across the business rather than specializing in a single discipline. You will have the unique opportunity to shape how vCluster Labs hires Internationally.

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, your role will include:

Full Cycle Generalist Recruiting: Own the end to end hiring process across Engineering, Product, Go to Market, and corporate roles globally. You will guide candidates from the initial talent screen through offer, adapting your approach to the function and level you are hiring for.

European Market Leadership: Serve as our first EMEA based recruiter and the local face of vCluster Labs for candidates across Europe. You will build the hiring practices, market knowledge, and candidate networks that support our growth in the region, while staying closely aligned with the US based People Ops team.

Strategic Sourcing: Proactively source and engage passive talent across technical communities as well as sales, marketing, and operations networks. You will build high quality pipelines so we are not relying solely on inbound applicants for priority roles.

Data Driven Execution: Champion our structured interview process across every function you support. You will ensure scorecards are used consistently to reduce bias and maintain strict data integrity within our ATS, Ashby, to inform hiring decisions.

Candidate Experience: Drive an exceptional experience through transparent, timely communication. You will treat every candidate, technical or go to market, with the same customer centric speed, making sure decisions happen in days, not months.

Partnership: Collaborate with hiring managers across departments to define role requirements and ideal candidate profiles. You will act as a consultant on market trends, compensation benchmarks, and closing strategy, not just an order taker.

This role could be a fit for you if you bring:

Experience: You have 5+ years of full cycle recruiting experience within a high growth tech startup, spanning multiple functions rather than a single specialty.

Generalist Range: You move comfortably between hiring for technical roles and go to market roles, and you can quickly get conversant in the language and priorities of each.

Location and Reach: You are based in Germany and ready to be vCluster Labs ' first hire on the ground in Europe, working across European and US time zones as needed.

A Builder Mindset: You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and enjoy refining processes to make them more efficient, especially as you stand up new practices for our European hiring.

A Data Centric Approach: You value results over tasks. You use data and analytics to track pipeline health across functions and inform decision making.

High EQ and Active Listening: You are an effective communicator who genuinely listens to understand the perspectives of candidates and hiring managers alike, across very different types of roles.

Requirements

Bonus points for

• HR Generalist Background: Experience beyond recruiting, such as HR operations, employee relations, or onboarding, that gives you a broader view of the employee lifecycle.
• ATS Proficiency: Experience with Ashby.
• Domain Expertise: Experience recruiting for open source technology, developer tools, or companies working on Kubernetes tenant isolation.
• Global Reach: A background hiring for distributed, remote first teams spanning multiple countries.

About vCluster Labs

We are a venture-backed tech startup and the company pioneering Kubernetes virtualization for the AI era. We raised +$30M from top-tier VCs such as Khosla Ventures (first investor in OpenAI, GitLab, Stripe, Doordash) and are in a hyper-growth phase looking for motivated people to complement our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe and we have a remote-first work culture.

We are the leading platform for operating GPU infrastructure, enabling AI Cloud providers to deliver a hyperscaler-like experience to their customers and AI factories that need to build that same experience for their internal teams. Our platform delivers the full operational stack operators need to run their GPU data centers — managed Kubernetes, fast isolated tenant provisioning, and automated node provisioning and lifecycle management — enabling them to accelerate time to value, reduce operational burden, and maximize the ROI of every GPU.

We're the company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (10k+ GitHub stars, 40M+ virtual clusters created since 2021). Open source is part of our DNA. At KubeCon North America 2025, we launched our Infrastructure Tenancy Platform for AI — a Kubernetes-native framework purpose-built for running AI, ML, and GPU-intensive workloads anywhere, with an NVIDIA-validated reference architecture for DGX systems.

Benefits

We offer the following benefits

• Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Platinum-Level Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).
• Flexible Working Schedule: You have a doctor’s appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won’t have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.
• Workplace Flexibility: We’re very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and we’re happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.

Culture & Values

At vCluster Labs , we value and stand for

• Make it Happen: We have a relentless bias for action and the grit to push through obstacles. We do whatever it takes to figure it out, put in the work, and ruthlessly prioritize the actions that drive measurable impact for the business.
• Own the Outcome: We understand that our responsibility doesn't end when a task is checked off; it ends when the value is delivered. We connect our daily individual actions to the broader success of the company and our customers.
• Create Wow: We measure success by the experience we generate, both inside and outside the company. For our customers, this means impressive speed and intuitive experiences. For our team, this means going the extra mile to support one another and to continuously drive each other to new heights.
• Open Source, Open Mind: We are actively contributing to and maintaining open-source projects. Internally, we foster meritocracy — the strongest ideas win, no matter who or where they come from.

Build Tomorrow’s Standards, Intentionally: We don't just ship software; we define the state-of-the-art of tomorrow. We are fearless in tearing down old approaches to build something better, but we are disciplined in how we do it because we know our users rely on our technology to run mission-critical infrastructure platforms.

Compensation Range: €90K - €110K

About the Company

Why join vCluster Labs ?

Since we are a fast-moving startup, you will not be number 14,589 in our company but rather become an essential part of our team right from the start:

Fast Application Process: We will typically get back to you within a week. No need to polish your resume for us. Just send us some links (e.g. LinkedIn, etc.), answer a few questions about your previous experiences, and hop on a quick Zoom call with one of our team members to see if you’re a good fit. We will respond quickly and make hiring decisions within days rather than months.

Open-Minded Work Environment: You can always speak your mind - no company politics or unnecessary formalities. We are operating in a lean, honest, and efficient way and we are looking for different perspectives, constructive feedback and creative, motivated people who want to make a difference.

Grow With The Company: We are a small company right now but we are growing incredibly fast because we work on something that has a lot of value to engineering teams in large enterprises. Joining vCluster Labs early will give you the chance to advance much faster to the next step on the career ladder than in any larger company.

Responsibility From Day 1: You will see right from the start that your work will immediately have an impact in our company and you can shape the future of this company together with the rest of our team.

About vCluster Labs