Your Impact

Tacto is building the intelligence layer for manufacturing. Engineering designs products in bits. Manufacturing builds them in atoms. Procurement connects both at the right quality, cost, and time - yet it runs on outdated systems. We're here to change that. Sequoia and Index backed us for the team we've built. This is Europe's chance to build a globally leading AI company, and we're at the center of it.

None of this happens without the right people. Team quality and organizational speed will determine whether we become a generational company or not. That makes talent our single most important lever - and we treat it that way. This is not a support function at Tacto. It's a company-building function.

As Talent Lead, you own that lever end-to-end. You run our entire talent engine - hiring across all departments, employer brand, talent partnering - with a team reporting to you. You won't step into a finished machine. You'll build it. Most companies do People & Talent badly. We're rethinking it from the ground up, with the same intensity and quality bar we apply to our product.

Your Tasks

Own hiring end-to-end: Run recruiting across all departments (Sales, Engineering, Product, Design, Customer Value) with a team reporting to you. Build pipeline, enforce the quality bar, and personally close senior and critical hires
Build our employer brand: Make Tacto the obvious choice for top talent. Own our positioning, LinkedIn presence, hiring events, university partnerships, and content strategy
Be the sparring partner to Hiring Managers: Help team leads define what great looks like for their team, challenge their thinking on org design and talent planning, and calibrate hiring decisions across the company
Systematize the talent function: Build repeatable processes, clear analytics, and scalable workflows. Think in conversion rates, cycle times, and pipeline health - not just "we need to hire more"
Build community & network: Actively grow Tacto's presence in the DACH startup ecosystem. Build relationships with top universities, run events with taste, and maintain a warm network of A-players across all relevant functions

Your Profile

2-5 years of hands-on recruiting or talent experience in a high-performance environment - a Tier 1 headhunting firm, a fast-scaling startup with a real talent bar, a VC, or you built your own recruiting business
You've personally sourced, pitched, and closed A-players - not just "managed the process"
You know what excellence looks like because you've seen it up close (e.g., at MBB, CDTM, top startups, VC) and you won't lower the standard
You're well-connected in the DACH startup ecosystem and bring a relevant network from day one
You combine great taste with high execution speed - you can run a hiring event and close a senior candidate in the same week
You're a strong communicator and storyteller who can sell Tacto's vision to passive candidates
You use AI tools daily and experiment with new workflows
Native German and strong English

Bonus: Experience hiring GTM roles in DACH, team management experience, or exposure to employer brand strategy at a startup

We know that nobody is perfect and therefore have no specific 'minimum qualifications'. If the role sounds interesting to you, we would like to know more about you - whether you already fulfill all the qualifications or not.

Why Tacto

Growth at the frontier of AI: You shape the future of technology and reinvent how manufacturing works, surrounded by best-in-class talent and leading minds in tech. 100+ people, founded by CDTM/TUM/Berkeley alumni, backed by Sequoia and Index. We build the future instead of talking about it
Real ownership, real impact: You own outcomes, not tasks. You build the talent engine, you see the result in every team, every hire, every quarter. The impact is tangible, fast, and directly tied to whether we become a generational company
A company that bets on you: We hire for potential. High expectations, great talent density, and a culture where your ambition, performance, and agency are what count - not where you come from or how big your ego is
You build the team that builds the company: This is not HR, this is a company-building function. You work directly with André and the leadership team, and your work shapes every department
AI-native company, AI-native role: Tacto ships AI features daily. You'll use AI tools to make your own function world-class
Setup: Munich (4+ days office), competitive comp + equity

Our Background

Tacto is building the intelligence layer that connects AI to the physical world of manufacturing, starting with procurement. AI is transforming every industry, but it stops at the factory gate. The knowledge that holds manufacturing together - part costs, suppliers, materials - is scattered across systems and people. Over 50% of a product's cost originates from suppliers, making procurement the single largest cost lever in manufacturing and the missing connection between the digital and the physical world. Yet it still runs on Excel and legacy systems. We're changing that with our Procurement Intelligence Platform, trusted by hundreds of companies running billions of Euros of material.

Based in Munich, we are 100+ passionate builders who are in-office, with high expectations, fast growth, and a lot of fun. We are supported by >€50m from Sequoia, Index, and Europe's leading tech entrepreneurs and industry veterans.

Why It Matters

Manufacturing forms Europe's economic backbone, driving a fourth of Europe's GDP and providing over 30% of jobs. These hidden champions and global market leaders manufacture the physical world around us, from the machines that build our cities to the medical devices that save lives.

But the world is changing. The US dominates the digital world of bits. China is scaling the world of atoms, manufacturing at unprecedented speed and scale. Geopolitics are more uncertain than ever. Europe's strength lies in its deep industrial knowledge through generations of engineering. Manufacturing worldwide runs on European machines and software. But that heritage is only an advantage if we leverage it in the age of AI.

Tacto builds the AI that connects Atoms and Bits, empowering our Industrial Base to Stay Stronger and building a lighthouse for European tech.

What We Offer

The people at Tacto are passionate about building the organization, growing themselves, and our product while having fun and being real. We have high expectations, great talent density, and a culture where your ambition, performance, and agency are what count - not where you come from or how big your ego is. You'll grow at the forefront of AI, have real ownership and impact, and be surrounded by the best people in their field who challenge you and make you better every day. That is demanding and rewarding, but that's where we thrive. Besides that you have:

Money: Competitive salary & equity in the company with real upside, so you are invested in our success
Workplace: A vibrant in-office culture (> 4 days/week) in a beautiful office in central Munich
Development: A development budget and regular exposure to exceptional people, e.g., Lunch & Learns, peer mentoring, external speakers
Freetime: 26 + 4 vacation days per year (4 fixed “company rest days”) as well as regular off-sites and team events
Health: Wellpass membership, of course, a fruit basket (!), and access to Jobrad, for your health
Family & Social Security: Voluntary pension contribution, voluntary KITA subsidy for your children

Tacto is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning your health, or data concerning your sexual orientation.

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