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About the Role

As Hiring Specialist / HR Recruiter (m/f/d), you will report directly to HR Management and play an essential part in our company's journey, with ample opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Responsibilities

• Own the full-cycle recruiting process for all open positions, from kick-off with hiring managers through offer negotiation and close.
• Build and maintain a strong pipeline of engineering, product, and business talent through proactive sourcing via LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, defence networks, and other channels.
• Design and continuously improve structured interview processes and assessment frameworks that are both rigorous and candidate-friendly.
• Partner closely with C-level and team leads to understand hiring needs, define role profiles, and set realistic timelines.
• Own and continuously optimize our employer branding presence on LinkedIn, job boards, and at relevant career events.
• Maintain our ATS (Applicant Tracking System), track recruiting KPIs, and report on pipeline health and time-to-hire.
• Deliver an outstanding candidate experience from first contact to day one, representing Q’s mission and culture authentically at every touchpoint.

Requirements

• Completed university degree in Psychology, Business, HR Management, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on recruiting experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on recruiting experience, ideally in a high-growth tech start-up or scale-up; experience hiring technical profiles is a strong plus.
• Proven track record of proactive, data-driven talent sourcing.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and switching between strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
• Strong communicator with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders simultaneously.
• High ownership and bias for action.
• Familiarity with the defence-tech, deep-tech, or dual-use ecosystem is a bonus but not necessary.
• Experience building recruiting infrastructure from scratch (ATS setup, interview templates, sourcing strategies) in a fast-scaling start-up environment is a big plus.
• Fluent in German and English (written and spoken).

Skills

• LinkedIn Recruiter
• GitHub
• Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
• Talent Sourcing
• Employer Branding
• Interview Processes
• Assessment Frameworks
• Stakeholder Management
• Data-driven Talent Sourcing

Location

• Berlin (with home office options)

Work Type

• Full-time
• Remote work options

Experience Level

• 2+ years of hands-on recruiting experience

Education Level

• University degree in Psychology, Business, HR Management, or a related field
• Equivalent hands-on recruiting experience

Salary/Compensations

• Attractive salary

Benefits

• 30 days of annual leave
• Additional benefits
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunities for professional and personal development
• Pleasant working environment
• Flat hierarchies

About the Company

• Q is a European defence-tech company pioneering the Internet of Defence with modular, scalable, and interoperable sensor and intelligence solutions.
• Our orchestration layer generates actionable situational awareness and enables the rapid, scalable, and wide-area integration of capabilities to respond to evolving threats – delivering immediate operational value for armed forces, security agencies, and actors in the critical-infrastructure domain.
• Our products are designed to integrate seamlessly into existing defence infrastructures, offering fast data integration and data fusion capabilities to enable AI-enhanced analytics and situational awareness.
• It is built on a platform agnostic architecture, unlocking true interoperability.
• We are growing fast in a very dynamic environment and are looking for someone with exceptional hands-on mentality and execution power to help us grow further.