Talent Manager, 30 hrs/week (m/f/d)

Dreamlight Labs GmbH

Hiring & Talent Manager at Dreamlight Labs coordinating recruitment and people processes. Responsible for talent acquisition and building structured onboarding in a dynamic environment.

Posted 7/20/2026full-timeHamburg • 🇩🇪 GermanyMid-LevelSenior💰 €30,000 - €50,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in recruiting, talent acquisition, and people operations within dynamic environments, while effectively managing applicant flow and onboarding processes. Proficient in utilizing various tools to enhance recruitment strategies and maintain organized documentation.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Recruiting ExperienceTalent AcquisitionStrong Communication SkillsOrganizational TalentProcess Building

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Soft Skills

Interpersonal JudgmentStructured and ReliableIndependent Work Style

Tools & Technologies

JOINLinkedInClickUpGoogle WorkspacePersonio

Industry Keywords

People OperationsOnboardingApplicant Flow ManagementInterview CoordinationTalent Sourcing

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Coordinate recruiting: You manage open roles, keep hiring pipelines up to date, and ensure applications are not left unattended.
Create and optimize job postings: You write job ads for JOIN and other channels and continuously improve them based on feedback and applicant quality.
Manage applicant flow: You screen applications, coordinate next steps, and communicate professionally with candidates.
Organize interviews: You schedule interviews with founders and team leads, prepare meetings, and record feedback and decisions.
Help build active sourcing: You proactively search for suitable talent and test new methods to attract great people to Dreamlight.
Build a talent and freelancer pool: You maintain contacts with interesting candidates, freelancers, and potential future team members.
Structure onboarding: You ensure new employees and freelancers clearly know what they need, whom to contact, and how to get started successfully.
Coordinate employment contract processes: You gather 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 employee reviews, feedback processes, and team topics.
Support founders and team leads: You consolidate HR, hiring, and onboarding topics 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, especially in a growing company, startup, or dynamic environment.
Strong interpersonal judgment: You quickly assess whether candidates are a technical and cultural fit for Dreamlight.
Structured and reliable: You keep applications, follow-ups, interview schedules, and open decisions organized and on track.
Strong communication skills: You write clearly, kindly, and professionally with applicants and internally.
Independent work style: You do not just wait for tasks but proactively identify where processes are missing or can be improved.
Organizational talent: You can manage multiple open roles, candidates, and processes simultaneously without things falling through the cracks.
Interest in process building: You enjoy not only maintaining but actively building recruiting, onboarding, wiki, and people processes.
Confident with tools: Ideally you are familiar with tools like JOIN, LinkedIn, ClickUp, Google Workspace, Personio, or similar systems.
Discreet handling of sensitive information: You treat applicant data, contracts, and employee discussions professionally and confidentially.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Lots of creative freedom to build our hiring and people processes
Flat hierarchies & a young team
Real influence on Dreamlight's growth
Short decision-making paths and fast implementation
Creative environment focused on live experiences, shows, music and storytelling
Flexible working arrangements by agreement
Responsibility from day one
A motivated, growing team