Talent Manager – from 30 hrs/week

Dreamlight Labs GmbH

Hiring & Talent Manager responsible for building recruitment and people processes for Dreamlight Labs. Focusing on finding and onboarding the right talent while growing the team.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeHamburg • 🇩🇪 GermanyMid-LevelSenior💰 €30,000 - €50,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

In this role you will actively help build our hiring and core people processes.
Your focus is on finding the right people for Dreamlight, guiding them through the application process, and ensuring new team members and freelancers have a smooth start.
Coordinate recruiting: You manage open roles, keep hiring pipelines up to date, and make sure applications don’t fall through the cracks.
Create and optimize job postings: You write job descriptions for JOIN and other channels and continuously improve them based on feedback and candidate quality.
Handle applicant management: You screen applications, coordinate next steps, and communicate professionally with candidates.
Organize interviews: You schedule meetings with founders and team leads, prepare interviews, and document feedback and decisions.
Build active sourcing: You proactively search for suitable talent and test new ways to attract great people to Dreamlight.
Build a talent and freelancer pool: You maintain relationships with promising candidates, freelancers, and potential future team members.
Structure onboarding: You ensure new employees and freelancers clearly understand what they need, who to contact, and how to get started effectively.
Coordinate employment contract processes: You collect all relevant information, prepare contracts based on existing templates, and align final versions with management and, if needed, external advisors.
Improve internal documentation: You organize our wiki, document recurring processes, and make knowledge more accessible.
Organize people routines: You help structure performance conversations, feedback processes, and team-related topics.
Relieve founders and team leads: You consolidate personnel, hiring, and onboarding matters so decisions can be made faster and more clearly.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience in recruiting, talent acquisition, people operations, or a similar role—ideally in a growing company, startup, or dynamic environment
Strong people sense: You can quickly assess whether candidates are a professional and cultural fit for Dreamlight.
Structure and reliability: You reliably manage applications, follow-ups, interview schedules, and open decisions.
Strong communication skills: You write clearly, politely, and professionally with both candidates and internal stakeholders.
Independent work style: You don’t just wait for tasks—you proactively identify where processes are missing or can be improved.
Organizational talent: You can manage multiple open roles, candidates, and processes at once without things being neglected.
Interest in process-building: You’re eager to not only manage recruiting, onboarding, wiki, and people processes but to actively build them.
Confident use of tools: Ideally you’re familiar with tools like JOIN, LinkedIn, ClickUp, Google Workspace, Personio, or similar systems.
Confidential handling of sensitive information: You treat applicant data, contracts, and employee conversations professionally and discreetly.
More important than a perfect CV is that you genuinely understand hiring as a growth lever and are excited to turn many individual HR topics into a working system.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Significant autonomy to shape our hiring and people processes
Flat hierarchies & a young team
Real influence on Dreamlight’s growth
Short decision-making paths and quick implementation
Creative environment around live experiences, shows, music, and storytelling
Flexible working arrangements by agreement
Responsibility from day one
A motivated, growing team

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Hard Skills & Tools

Applicant ManagementJob Posting CreationInterview CoordinationOnboarding StructureEmployment Contract Preparation

Soft Skills

Strong People SenseIndependent Work StyleReliability