HR Lead

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.