👋 About us
Seedcamp is Europe’s first dedicated seed fund and proud first investors in Revolut, UiPath, Wise, Fluidstack, Synthesia and many other multi-billion dollar companies.
We’ve been delivering best in class returns for nearly 20 years and have just kicked off Fund VII and Select Fund II totalling $320m. More about that here.
We’re an investment team of 7 and a wider team of 19. Most of us have worked together for a long time, several for more than 10 years. That level of trust has enabled us to scale across the US and build an unrivalled bundle of transatlantic products for our portfolio. At the start of each new fund, we publish our fundraise slide deck, so feel free to check out our full story, team and portfolio.
We’re looking for our next Head of Talent – someone to own and build the function that helps our portfolio, from first-time founders to Series B teams, hire the people who take their companies from an idea to category leaders.
🎯 About the role
Talent is one of the clearest ways we can add value to a founder in the first two years after we back them, and we want someone who treats it as a real function to build. You’ll report directly into the investment team, and play a crucial role in building out the teams and companies that will define the next decade.
That means:
- Owning founder-facing talent support across the portfolio – from org design and team structure in the earliest days, through comp benchmarking, employer branding, and hands-on sourcing / screening for critical hires.
- Building and owning our onboarding flow with new portfolio founders – this is the single biggest driver of whether founders actually use what we offer, and it’s yours to run and improve.
- Building out a curated bench of specialist advisors and operators across functions.
- Building focused networks in a small number of European hubs.
- Holding your own with founders. You’ll need to be comfortable telling a founder you think their hiring plan is wrong, or that a candidate isn’t quite the right calibre.
- Working with a portfolio that spans very early, small-check companies through to later-stage growth teams, and knowing how to flex your time and approach across that range, while always prioritising quality.
- Thinking beyond one-to-one relationships – exploring what of this can be systemised, productised, or supported by tooling (including AI sourcing/screening tools), so the function scales with the portfolio.
- Working closely with the investment team on how talent support factors into how we win and support deals.
🚀 About you
We’re looking for someone with extreme agency who wants to build out our entire Talent function.
- You likely come from in-house talent/people leadership at a startup, executive search, or a hybrid of the two, ideally with real exposure to hiring engineers, not just go-to-market roles.
- You’ve made the shift (or are ready to) from a placement-driven, billing mindset to one where quality is everything. You’d rather make no introduction than a mediocre one, and you’re comfortable with feedback loops that take months, not days.
- You can hold an equal, challenging conversation with a founder, and can push back when needed.
- You’re low-ego enough to give the same quality of attention to a founder navigating a first hire as to one of our highest-profile companies.
- You think in systems as much as relationships. You want to know how what you’re doing today can be repeated, taught, or built into something bigger next year.
- You have (or can quickly build) a real network in at least one major European hub, ideally with some depth in engineering/technical hiring.
If you don’t align with all these requirements exactly but think you’d be a strong fit for the role, we’d still love to hear from you.
😎 Benefits
- Competitive salary and carry
- Private healthcare
- Access to the most powerful startup network in Europe
🚀 Sounds like you?
Applications close on the 20th September 2026 – the Seedcamp team will begin reviewing applications immediately, so the earlier you can apply, the better.
If you have any questions in the interim, reach out to felixmartinez@seedcamp.com.