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Talent Lead

The challenge

At Better Stack, we pilot a startup rocket ship aiming for the moons of unicorns. With millions in ARR, thousands of customers, and hundreds of thousands of engineers already using us, we are on the right path toward $100M ARR.

On our path there, we're building a dream team of highly talented, skilled, yet humble people. We share Tobi Lütke's perspective: "Life is best lived by working hard, solving difficult problems, surrounded by friends."

We don't believe in scaling the size of the team blindly. At the same time, in order to succeed in our mission of helping developers build better software faster, we'll need more incredible colleagues to join us on the ride. Getting these smart yet humble colleagues on board will be your daily bread and butter. We need your help with assembling some of the world's best people to execute against the company's mission.

What you'll do

  • Scout for new talented colleagues, coordinate the hiring process, extend offers, and be the candidate's voice throughout the company.
  • Talk to many new people every week (20+ intro chats per week) and create genuine connections.
  • Balance inbound vs outbound hiring, learning to spot candidates even if they never applied or may not have direct prior experience.
  • Work directly with both of our co-founders, our CTO, and more teammates on bringing the very best people on board in Prague, Czech Republic, and remotely in GMT±2.
  • Be in charge of creating an 11-star candidate experience.
  • Craft extraordinary employer branding and make the company an obvious interview choice for talented candidates.
  • A great startup culture needs to be founder-driven. You'll be the fail-safe to make sure nothing falls through the cracks.

This might be for you if

  • You enjoy pitching a candidate the mission, culture, product, and our work style.
  • You would not be afraid of running a script in your Mac terminal (we can teach you that) or debating with engineering candidates about why we don't care if they worked with a completely different tech stack until now.
  • You enjoy Talent, People, or HR because you see it as a driving force in the business.
  • You consider yourself full-stack, managing all aspects of recruiting, from sourcing to conducting intro calls with candidates, coordinating all stages of the interview process, and helping to extend the offer or providing the candidate with valuable feedback.
  • You don't hesitate to do a lot of outbound and are not waiting for candidates to apply on their own.
  • You enjoy delighting candidates throughout the process by being fast, transparent, energetic, and kind.
  • You have a builder's mindset. There's plenty of things we're doing already, but a lot more we could be doing in the future in terms of talent acquisition.
  • You are curious. You enjoy checking the latest trends and never miss an opportunity to read a good book, listen to a podcast episode, or watch a talk on talent or startup-related topics and share that knowledge.

Who you'll work with

A team of smart and talented colleagues who are extraordinary at what they do and collaborate together to build an amazing product. Namely:

  • Juraj & Veronika, both our co-founders, are hands-on and close to hiring every new colleague who joins the team. They're the kind of founders who not only say the company is only as good as the people within the company; they act on it and are always ready to help bring more talented teammates on board. Both of them still interview all the candidates too, of course.
  • Tomas, our CTO, engaged in sourcing, interviewing, extending offers, and onboarding.
  • Magdalena has lived and traveled all over the world, which helps her connect with candidates and shape how Better Stack is seen from the outside. She takes care of growth, marketing, and technical recruiting, always juggling multiple hats with a focus on operational excellence. She is also a supporter of the Ruby community.
  • Anna, our head of operations, who previously ran a space company developing software for satellites and probes.

Where to go next?

  • Read about what it's like to work here – feel the atmosphere, understand the culture.
  • Read more about how we think about software engineering. It's quite different from other companies! (Most of the principles we describe there apply to other parts of the company as well.)
  • We raised over $28M since we started, turned profitable last year, and are now taking on the developer tools industry.
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