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HR Lead

Barcelona
Full-time
Permanent employee

Job Description

Your mission

Build the team and the culture that lets Didit win. You'll own recruiting end to end — sourcing and closing the best talent in the world, wherever they are — and you'll own how it feels to work here once they arrive: onboarding, internal events, rituals, and the day-to-day culture of a fast-growing startup. This is the role that decides who joins us and why they stay. You'll report directly to the CEO.

What you'll do

  • Own recruiting end to end — define the role with the hiring manager, source actively, screen, coordinate the process, and close the offer. You run the pipeline yourself; you don't hand it to an agency.
  • Hunt worldwide — go find exceptional engineers, GTM operators, and designers wherever they are. Outbound sourcing, referrals, communities, and a genuine pitch — not just inbound applications.
  • Build and run the hiring machine — scorecards, structured interviews, clear feedback loops, and a fast, respectful candidate experience. Keep the CRM clean so the whole team can see where every candidate stands.
  • Own culture deliberately — turn how we work into something explicit and repeatable: onboarding that gets people productive in days, rituals that hold a fast-moving team together, and the standards we hire and promote against.
  • Organise internal events — offsites, team dinners, demo days, and the moments that make an in-office team actually feel like one. You plan them, budget them, and make them good.
  • Support the employee lifecycle — onboarding, performance cycles, and the people-operations basics (contracts, records, Personio hygiene), working with our finance and legal partners.
  • Be the pulse of the team — listen, spot problems early, and bring the founders honest signal about what's working and what isn't.

What we're looking for

  • 2+ years in a high-growth startup — hard requirement: you've recruited and built culture inside a company that was scaling fast and changing shape. Big-company HR experience alone is not what we're looking for.
  • Closing great people yourself — a track record of full-cycle recruiting where you personally sourced, ran, and closed hires, including hard ones.
  • A genuine hunter — comfortable doing cold outbound to senior candidates and selling a mission to someone who wasn't looking.
  • Languages — excellent communication in English and Spanish, spoken and written.
  • Making things happen — events, onboarding, offsites: you organise, you own the details, and it lands.
  • Judgement about people — you can tell talent from polish, and you hold a high bar even when we're in a hurry.
  • Mindset — strong ownership, high energy, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-expectations environment.

Nice to have

  • Experience recruiting technical profiles (engineers, AI/ML, product) — a big part of this job.
  • Familiarity with ATS/HRIS.

What we offer

  • In-office in Barcelona — building culture is the job, and it happens in person.
  • Real ownership — you own recruiting and culture outright, early, in a Y-Combinator-backed company used by 2,000+ companies.
  • Budget and autonomy — the tools, sourcing budget, and events budget to actually build the team and the culture you're accountable for.
  • Real growth — the chance to grow with us and help build the best identity company in the world.

We'll discuss compensation directly during the process.