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About the Role
We're hiring a Director, Talent Acquisition to own how this company hires. You'll lead our Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding function and build the operating model that makes hiring a genuine competitive advantage. The TA function is operational and delivering, but quality, consistency, and hiring manager capability haven't yet caught up with our ambitions. Our ability to scale from Series A through commercialization depends on hiring the right people, at the right pace, into the right roles.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop five TA Partners and the TA Enablement & Analytics Partner — setting clear expectations, building capability, and creating a high-performing team culture.
- Build and maintain the TA operating standards: hiring processes, interview frameworks, scorecards, and decision criteria applied consistently across every function.
- Drive capacity planning in close partnership with Finance and department heads, ensuring TA is resourced and sequenced ahead of demand.
- Equip leaders to run structured, fair hiring processes through training, coaching, and tooling.
- Own the ATS end to end: configuration, data integrity, adoption, and continuous improvement.
- Use pipeline data and KPIs to identify bottlenecks, drive process changes, and report progress.
- Build a consistent, differentiated presence in our target talent markets — LinkedIn, Glassdoor, job boards, events, and content — in partnership with Marketing.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience, with meaningful time leading and developing recruiting teams
- Experience in a scaling tech, deep-tech, or engineering-heavy environment, hiring for specialised, hard-to-fill roles
- Fluent with AI in your daily recruiting work — sourcing, screening, content, analytics — and able to raise your team's bar on it
- A KPI-driven operator: structured interviewing, assessment design, capacity planning, and hiring manager enablement are core methods
- Hands-on ATS ownership: configuration, vendor management, reporting, and driving adoption across recruiters and hiring managers
- Strong working knowledge of GDPR as it applies to candidate data, and of German employment law in hiring
- Fluent in English; German is a meaningful plus
- You've built or significantly rebuilt a TA operating model — standards, processes, and team structure — in a company that doubled headcount
- You've made employer branding work in a competitive talent market, with results you can point to
- You have a point of view on what great talent acquisition looks like — and it's grounded in outcomes, not activity
- You're drawn to mission-driven companies and want your work to connect to something larger than the next quarter
Skills
- Talent Acquisition
- Employer Branding
- AI in recruiting
- KPI-driven operations
- ATS ownership
- GDPR
- German employment law
Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Darmstadt, Germany
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote flexibility
Experience Level
- 10+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience
- Leading and developing recruiting teams
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive compensation
- Equity participation
Benefits
- 30 days of vacation per year
- Snacks and Drinks
- Retirement Plan with company financing
- Events for team bonding and collaboration
- Mobility support with NAVIT
- Fitness access with Wellhub
About the Company
- Focused Energy is building the future of clean energy through laser-driven inertial fusion.
- Backed by our $240M Series A — the largest fully secured Series A in the global fusion industry — we are scaling rapidly across multiple geographies.
- Based in Germany and the US, we have brought together the top scientific and engineering minds using proven technologies to unlock fusion power at commercial scale.
- Focused Energy is working to realize game-changing scientific innovation that promises to deliver a clean, sustainable and abundant source of power globally.
Equal Opportunity
- Focused Energy is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Focused Energy will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.