Vertice
Strategic Talent Associate (Growth & Operations)
1mo ago
EuropeRemote
Role focused on strategic talent growth and operations within a technology procurement platform company.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Vertice leaders : You will work with Vertice heads of department on workforce planning and assessing great candidates.
- System Architecture: Instead of "searching" for people, you will build automated and repeatable AI-assisted systems to map out entire industries and identify the highest-potential individuals before our competitors do.
- Influence and Negotiation: You will act as the face of the company for elite candidates. You will master the art of the pitch, learning how to align our mission with the personal ambitions of world-class talent, negotiating the right terms of their entrance.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Treat the hiring funnel like a conversion funnel. You will analyze high-signal data to ruthlessly eliminate friction in our interview processes and improve candidate experience.
- Culture Guarding: You are the gatekeeper. You will design assessment frameworks that ensure we never compromise on our values, even during periods of hyper-growth.
Requirements
- Smart Generalist: You are likely a high-performer from a top-tier consultancy, a former founder, or operator from a VC-backed startup. You care about outcomes, not job titles.
- High IQ + High EQ: You can dive deep into technical or operational requirements one minute, and then navigate a complex, nuanced negotiation about a candidate’s motivations the next.
- Process Obsessed: You hate inefficiency. When you see a manual task, your first instinct is to build a system or find a tool to automate it.
- Relentless Hustle: You are "hungry" and proactive. You don’t wait for applications to hit an inbox; you go out and create opportunities through sheer grit and creativity.
- Clear Communicator: You can write compelling narratives and speak with a level of authority that commands respect from senior stakeholders.
Conditions
- We don’t care about your background in recruitment, we care about your ability to solve problems. This is an opportunity to own the most critical function of a scaling tech company. You will be given immense autonomy, a direct line to leadership, and the chance to build a legacy through the team you assemble. If you want to move fast, work with the smartest people you’ve ever met, and have a disproportionate impact on our company's value, we want to talk to you.
- #BI-DNI
Other
- Spend on technology is one of the biggest items in an enterprise CFO’s budget, second only to headcount. Traditional procurement is one of the most frustrating, friction-filled bottlenecks in modern businesses. A single purchase routinely stalls for months, drowning in endless email threads and dragging in teams from Finance, Legal, Security, and IT.
- Vertice is the world’s first Intelligent Procurement Platform aiming to eliminate this chaos. By combining automated agentic workflows, deep AI insights, and a global network of expert negotiators, we empower enterprises to buy smarter and scale at pace.
- The market response has been unprecedented:
- $75bn+ in spend processed across our platform.
- 20% savings consistently delivered to our customers.
- 70% reduction in standard enterprise procurement cycles.
- 13X revenue growth achieved over the last two years alone.
- Founded by serial technology entrepreneurs Roy and Eldar Tuvey, who have successfully scaled and exited two category-defining platforms and created $600M+ in enterprise value, we are backed by over $100M in Series C funding from tier 1 global investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, 83North, and Lakestar . We were recently recognized as the #2 fastest-growing company on the Sunday Times' Tech 100 and named the fastest-growing startup in the UK and Ireland by the FT’s Sifted.
- With headquarters in London and hubs in New York, Brno, Sydney, and Johannesburg, we are fundamentally reshaping the global B2B economy.
- At our stage of growth, the people we bring into the business are the single biggest determiner of our success. We believe that the trajectory of our company isn’t fully determined by our product roadmap or our capital, but by the calibre of who we bring into the team.
- We are looking for an ambitious Strategic Talent Associate to act as the primary architect of our future team. This isn't a traditional recruitment role; it is a high-stakes commercial and operational challenge. You will work directly with our senior leadership team to solve the most difficult problem in business: identifying, attracting, and convincing the best talent to join us.
- You will focus on global roles including EMEA, US and APAC, and you’ll be partnering with hiring managers across a number of different business areas: Customer, Client Delivery, Product and Solutions. We see this role as a “tour of duty:” after starting out in the Talent team, you will be well prepared to either take a traditional recruitment role, or perhaps to work in more generalist operations roles at Vertice.
- Most traditional recruiter roles are numbers games. This role is about balancing quantity with quality. You will be treated like a Founder’s Associate, tasked with building the systems, the narrative, and the outbound engines required to win over people who aren't even looking to move jobs. You will have a front-row seat to how a hyper-growth scale-up is built, operating at the intersection of psychology, data, and strategy. If you want to understand how a successful company wins, there is no better vantage point than the one that selects and assesses the people entering it.
- Vertice is an equal opportunities employer, although you must be legally able to work in the specified region of the job. Any personal data you provide will be processed in accordance with Vertice's privacy policy and applicable data protection law.
- We use AI-assisted tools to help us review and assess applications more efficiently. These tools support our Talent team but do not make hiring decisions autonomously. You have the right to contest any AI-assisted decision, and exercise your data subject rights by contacting us; please follow the instructions in our privacy policy.
- We like to deal directly with our candidates so no agencies please!
- If you aren’t sure this job applies to you, feel free to send your CV to, and we’ll be happy to take a look and see if you could be a good fit anywhere else in our business!