Recruitment Business Partner

Accountabilities

• Develop new client relationships by leveraging your network of founders, engineering leaders, hiring managers, and other decision-makers within the European technology and startup ecosystem.


• Build relationships with startup founders, particularly at seed to Series A stage, and understand their hiring challenges, priorities, and talent needs.


• Source, engage, and qualify candidates using the existing ATS, candidate database, LinkedIn, outbound tools, and other relevant sourcing channels.


• Manage candidates throughout the recruitment process, from initial engagement and qualification through to placement.


• Identify opportunities to cross-sell existing candidates across multiple client requirements and maximize the value of the candidate network.


• Design and run personalized outbound sequences that generate meaningful conversations without relying on generic or overly transactional recruitment messaging.


• Use AI, automation, CRM systems, sourcing platforms, and other modern tools to improve efficiency and scale recruitment and business-development activities.


• Contribute to strategic decisions around which clients to pursue, which candidate markets to develop, and which commercial approaches are most promising.


• Collaborate as an equal business partner, sharing priorities, ideas, opportunities, and results while helping shape the future direction of the recruitment business.


• Build a recruitment experience based on direct communication, strong relationships, commercial awareness, and a high-quality candidate and client experience.

Requirements

• Strong existing network within technology, startups, engineering, or related professional communities, with genuine relationships that can lead to client introductions and business opportunities.


• Experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, recruitment sales, business development, founder-led growth, or a comparable role involving people, relationships, and commercial outcomes.


• Alternatively, a background as a technology founder, hiring manager, or professional who has developed a strong instinct for talent and the hiring process.


• Demonstrated entrepreneurial drive and the ability to generate opportunities independently rather than relying on an established lead flow.


• Strong understanding of startup hiring environments and credibility when communicating with technical founders and engineering leaders.


• High level of technical fluency, with the ability to work naturally with ATS platforms, CRM systems, AI/LLM tools, automation platforms, LinkedIn, and other modern recruiting technologies.


• Strong sourcing, candidate engagement, sales, and relationship-building capabilities.


• Excellent communication skills and the ability to create direct, authentic outreach that stands out from conventional recruiter messaging.


• Strategic and commercially minded, with the ability to assess which clients, candidates, markets, and opportunities are worth pursuing.


• Comfortable operating with significant autonomy and without traditional management structures.


• Comfortable with variable income and the uncertainty inherent in contingency recruitment and a performance-based partnership.


• Able to operate effectively within European time zones, particularly given the focus on clients across the UK, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, and France.

• Revenue-share compensation: Earn directly from successful placements and commercial results, with the exact revenue split negotiable between partners.


• True business partnership: Participate in building and growing the recruitment business rather than joining a traditional employee hierarchy.


• Full autonomy: Decide how you approach sourcing, business development, outreach, and relationship building without conventional reporting structures.


• Established infrastructure: Gain access to an operational ATS, candidate database, email infrastructure, outbound toolkit, and established recruitment methodology.


• Existing client base: Build on an established business with paying clients and active placement opportunities.


• Candidate network: Access an existing pool of candidates, including profiles that can potentially be introduced to multiple opportunities.


• Growth opportunity: Help shape commercial strategy, identify new markets, and influence the direction of the business.


• Modern technology stack: Use AI, automation, CRM, sourcing, and productivity tools to build a highly efficient recruitment operation.


• Fully remote: Work remotely from the Netherlands with flexibility across European time zones.


• Contract arrangement: Operate as an independent contractor in a senior/executive-level partnership.


• Performance-driven upside: Your earning potential is directly connected to the clients, candidates, and placements you help generate.

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