Founding Talent Acquisition & People Ops Manager - Ai Startup (Berlin)

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Cherry Ventures is supporting our portfolio with this hire Founding Talent Acquisition & People Ops Manager (m/f/d) – Berlin Full-Time | Onsite (Berlin): About Forgent AI: Forgent AI builds domain-specific AI agents to fix one of Europe’s most complex and high-impact systems: public procurement. This €2 trillion market is plagued by inefficiency, limited access, and lack of transparency — and we’re here to change that. We are backed by Cherry Ventures and leading angels from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta. Our founding team has previously raised more than €500M and built AI systems at global scale. We have achieved strong early traction with enterprise customers and have a full sales pipeline. Now we’re looking for exceptional talent to build the People function that will scale our team, attract world-class builders, and establish the culture and systems that turn this momentum into lasting impact. The Role: As Forgent’s first People hire, you will own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, GTM, and operations while building the systems that help our team perform at their best. You will work directly with the founders to scale the team from 10 to 50+ people — hiring exceptional tale...