(Senior) Talent Acquisition Partner - 6 months contract

Solaris is Europe’s leading embedded finance platform, pioneering Banking-as-a-Service to bridge the gap between financial technology and licensed banking. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, Solaris enables fintechs, digital ecosystems, and multinationals to embed accounts, cards, lending, and payments directly into their own products, creating seamless financial experiences for their users. As a fully licensed German bank, Solaris combines the highest standards of IT security and regulatory resilience with a modular, highly scalable infrastructure.

Today, Solaris is driving the next evolution of financial services by transitioning into an AI-native banking platform, ensuring European businesses can deploy secure, adaptable financial products at scale.

• Own full-cycle recruiting for a diverse portfolio of technical and non technical roles within the German market, managing everything from initial role scoping to final offer acceptance.
• Lead comprehensive kick-offs with hiring managers to set a high talent bar, align expectations with market realities, and provide consultative pushback when necessary.
• Screen talents with a critical eye, moving beyond surface-level polish to accurately assess a candidate experience against role's requirements.
• Proactively hunt and engage both passive and active talent, generating competitive and diverse candidate pools even within highly constrained talent markets.
• Champion a structured interviewing framework that thoroughly and fairly evaluates skills while delivering an outstanding, candidate-centric experience.
• Partner closely with the Works Council (Betriebsrat) to ensure smooth, compliant processing of all hiring decisions, internal approvals, and employment offers.
• Collaborate with people partners to design competitive compensation packages and navigate complex negotiations to successfully close talents.
• Monitor and analyze key recruitment metrics (e.g. conversion rates, time-in-stage, offer acceptance, calibration, etc) to proactively manage pipeline health and provide data-backed recommendations to stakeholders.
• Contribute to the ongoing process improvement and automation of the recruiting area by refining and documenting recruitment best practices, playbooks, and workflows.

Depending on your level of experience, your responsibilities and scope of role will range. We don’t care much about fancy titles, but rather about real personal and professional development, as laid out in our learning framework. Let’s figure together out how you can contribute to our team.

• 4 - 6 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a track record of closing candidates in competitive markets.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting broad technical and banking/fintech roles in the German market, with working knowledge of local talent dynamics, compensation norms, and employment practices.
• Proficiency with an applicant tracking system like Greenhouse and other modern sourcing tools
• Business fluent in English; German language skills are a strong plus.
• Ability to build trust quickly with senior hiring managers in fast-moving, scalable environments.
• Willingness and ability to build technical and business depth quickly enough to run credible intake sessions and screens.
• Proven ability to maintain quality under volume pressure and manage multiple complex searches at once. 
• Genuine interest in the financial services or banking space and an understanding of the critical role recruiting plays in it.
• Comfort with ambiguity and with improving or building processes rather than just running an established playbook.
• A self-starter who works independently while staying aligned with internal hiring practices and compliance standards.
• Comfortable working with AI tools, thinking critically about AI outputs, and contributing to a culture of responsible AI use. We expect you to demonstrate comfort with AI-assisted workflows and a willingness to continuously develop their AI capabilities as the technology evolves.