Senior Talent Partner – Partnerships

CuspAI

Senior Talent Partner managing the end-to-end hiring process for technical partnerships and business development roles. Contributing to the growth of CuspAI's world-class team of technical professionals.

Posted 7/31/2026full-timeBerlin • 🇩🇪 GermanySeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in full-cycle technical recruitment, particularly for high-level roles in science and research-oriented organizations. Possesses strong stakeholder management skills and a proactive approach to sourcing and candidate engagement within the AI and Materials Science sectors.

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Full-Cycle Technical RecruitmentStakeholder ManagementProactive Sourcing StrategiesData-Driven Hiring DecisionsTechnical Fluency in Research Disciplines

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Hard Skills

Technical RecruitmentCandidate ScreeningJob Description DraftingInterview Process DesignData Hygiene Management

Soft Skills

AdaptabilityCuriosityCollaborationCommunicationTrust Building

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Industry Keywords

AI for Materials ScienceScientific Business DevelopmentDeep TechTalent Acquisition Best PracticesDEIB in Hiring

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Full-Cycle Technical Recruitment
- Own the end-to-end recruiting process for high-priority Partnership and Business Development roles, ranging from Partnership Managers in familiar geographies through to Country Managers in new and exciting regions.
- Proactively identify and engage highly specialised talent from science-first research companies, AI labs, and academic spin-offs.
- Support hiring teams from offer through onboarding - managing offer processes, coordinating pre-start engagement, and ensuring new hires (including interns and experienced hires) have a strong start at CuspAI.
Strategic Partnering
- Collaborate closely with hiring teams to draft compelling job descriptions, define role requirements and assessment criteria, and design engaging and efficient interview processes.
- Organise and run interviewer calibration sessions to ensure understanding and alignment around the focus areas for each interview stage, and assisting with the creation/refinement of appropriate questions and/or tasks.
- Act as a talent advisor and thought partner, taking a data-driven approach to providing market insights on compensation, talent availability, and hiring trends within the Deep Tech and AI for Materials Science landscape.
- Work closely with the people team to evolve CuspAI's approach to DEIB in hiring - identifying opportunities to strengthen representation, removing barriers in our processes, and building pipelines that reflect the diverse talent in our fields.
Candidate Experience & Operations
- Execute a high-touch, seamless candidate experience that reflects CuspAI’s values, with the goal that every applicant - regardless of the outcome - becomes an advocate.
- Maintain rigorous data hygiene within our ATS, enabling and sharing accurate dashboards for hiring teams to help with visibility and engagement, as well as ensuring that hiring decisions are data-driven.
- Agree and uphold service levels around critical tasks such as reviewing applications, responding to referrals, conducting screening calls, scheduling interviews, writing up feedback, replying to candidate requests, updating stakeholders, etc.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience & Context: You have significant hands-on experience (10+ years) hiring, placing high-level technical partnerships or scientific business development professionals for science or research-oriented organizations (e.g. AI for Materials Science, computational chemistry, or physics research companies).
Adaptability: You thrive in ambiguity and fast-paced environments and have ideally worked in fast-paced full cycle recruitment in start-up or scale-up environments. You can pivot quickly when priorities change and are comfortable building appropriate processes from scratch where none exist, utilising your newly established internal network.
Curiosity: You look to understand the “why” behind each new role, building trust with hiring teams by asking questions and doing your own research to get below the surface of the JD. You proactively stay on top of the latest best practices, tools and techniques in Talent Acquisition.
Technical Fluency: You possess a strong track record of hiring for complex profiles in a technical or research-based organisation. You effectively understand the nuances between different engineering and research disciplines and can credibly screen candidates for different types of roles based on technical requirements.
Hunter Mindset: You build and execute proactive outbound sourcing strategies rather than relying only on inbound applications. You don’t stop at using LinkedIn Recruiter and you’re comfortable leveraging hiring partner networks for referral streams.
Stakeholder Management: You keep hiring teams updated and set out clear responsibilities, providing guidance on best practices to managers and senior leadership.
Mission Alignment: You are genuinely excited about the intersection of AI and science. You can passionately articulate our mission to candidates who want to use their skills to combat climate change and advance sustainability.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A competitive salary: We value and reward impact and growth
Equity in CuspAI: You have a stake in the success of the company
Time off to stay fresh: 28 days holiday (DE, NL, UK) or 21 days holiday (JP, SG, US), in addition to local public holidays
‘Gold Standard’ parental leave: 26 weeks (primary caregiver) and 12 weeks (secondary caregiver) at full pay - we look after you and your family while we work on the most important materials discovery problems together
Professional development budget: We invest in your career development so you can stay up to date with the latest industry knowledge or add to your skills to increase impact and growth
Solve meaningful problems: See how your work has a direct impact on advancing materials science and solving sustainability and climate-related problems through the creation and application of bleeding-edge SOTA technology and revolutionary techniques
True interdisciplinary teamwork: Be part of a deeply collaborative environment bridging AI research, computational chemistry, and experimental science - work with world-class researchers and engineers who enjoy sharing knowledge and supporting each other