Senior Talent Partner

Senior Talent Partner at cargo.one

In this role, you’ll tackle challenges that go beyond traditional recruiting. As a remote-first company, we are constantly innovating to reach globally dispersed talent and create genuine connections throughout the hiring process.

You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping new teams, understanding their impact on the business, and developing hiring strategies that drive team and company growth. Acting as a trusted consultant and advisor, you’ll provide insights on market trends, share data-driven recommendations, and showcase your expertise in innovative sourcing techniques and process automation.

Our People team is small but mighty, with a mission to become a best-in-class team that attracts and nurtures exceptional talent worldwide. From day one, you’ll have the opportunity to bring your technical expertise, take ownership, and make a meaningful impact.

This is a unique opportunity to be driving the digitalization of air freight and logistics in a fast-growing Series B company backed by leading Venture Capital firms including Index and Bessemer.

Your Responsibilities

• Partnering with senior leadership and hiring managers on complex requirements, shaping the teams that define the future of our company.
• Owning high-impact searches in a fast-moving startup environment, ensuring we hire the right talent at the right time.
• Building scalable recruitment processes with a strong focus on automation and efficiency.
• Acting as a trusted advisor, providing data-driven insights on hiring strategies, market trends, and workforce planning.
• Coaching and supporting hiring managers across all levels to make confident hiring decisions.
• Bringing creativity and innovation to sourcing, while delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
• Optimizing a fully remote hiring approach that sets industry standards for distributed teams.
• Leveraging Ashby to its fullest potential, driving adoption, automation, and data-driven decision-making across our hiring processes.
• Building strategic talent pipelines by engaging with industry communities, universities, and networks.
• Supporting People team projects, improving processes, and rolling out new tools for scalability and global impact.
• Shaping our employer brand and talent positioning to attract world-class talent.

What You'll Need

• At least 5 years of recruitment experience, ideally in a mix of agency and high-growth in-house recruiting.
• Strong track record hiring for GTM roles (sales, success, partnerships, marketing) in a startup or scale-up environment.
• Proven experience working fully remote and thriving in a distributed, asynchronous team culture.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience handling senior leaders and complex requirements.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Ashby (ATS), with a strong ability to drive automation and improve hiring workflows.
• A technical mindset: comfortable with systems, processes, and data, and able to optimize for efficiency and scale.
• A proactive, independent, and self-motivated approach, with the ability to manage multiple hiring processes at once.
• A growth mindset, resilience, and adaptability in environments of shifting priorities.
• Strong communication skills and fluent English, written and spoken.

Why You'll Love Working Here

• You enjoy working directly with senior stakeholders and thrive in fast-changing, high-growth environments.
• You are excited by the challenge of building processes from scratch and scaling them globally.
• You value building strong, trust-based relationships across the business.
• You love experimenting with new tools, automation, and approaches to hiring.
• You embrace feedback and use it to grow.
• You see remote work as an opportunity to innovate, not a limitation.

Learn More About cargo.one

• Read more about connecting the world’s air cargo markets to make them more productive and successful.
• Get to know Siena and Alex from the cargo.one team and find out more about daily challenges, most significant achievements and personal motivations.
• View cargo.one latest news.
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Key skills/competency

• Talent Acquisition
• Recruitment Strategy
• Stakeholder Management
• Ashby ATS
• Process Automation
• Employer Branding
• Remote Hiring
• GTM Hiring
• Workforce Planning
• Data-driven Recruitment