Senior Talent Partner

We are growing fast to make our mark in the tax innovation space and solve a really hard problem. Fonoa has built a range of products that enable any Internet company to meet their sales tax obligations at scale. We have an API first product that integrates in a matter of hours, enabling any type of Internet company (SaaS, marketplaces, e-commerce, ridesharing etc) to validate transactions, determine tax rates, invoice and report in real time.

In the last 3 months, our team has grown to circa 30 in headcount (from 18), where we are now looking to at least triple the size of our team.

Talent we're trying to hire

The Fonoa team is completely distributed across EU, where we will soon be offering co-working to offer our team choice to either work fully remote or in a hybrid setting.

We look for people who are problem solvers, are entrepreneurial at heart, enjoy taking ownership and have a builders mindset.

Hiring is always a central focus in our business; we're heavily invested in finding the best talent globally, which means there are no boundaries to hiring across multiple locations, and accessing a global pool of people who'd like to join our mission.

Types of hires you'll be working on

You will be working across a number of roles in our Engineering, Product and Design teams. As we scale with a goal of improving our existing hiring efforts, you will help increase our speed, time it takes to hire, and help raise the bar.

Talent is a strategic component of our business where you will also work with our team in building our brand, telling our story, shaping our proposition and finding new ways to engage top talent.

Impact you can make to Fonoa's Talent function

With our plans to increase our headcount substantially, you will make a high impact in the company. Within our Technology function alone, we plan to expand our team by 25+ for 2021.

You'll work autonomously with your business groups to make a number of key hires. a You will not only have the chance to build the company, but you will be an important member of the team to develop world class best practices. you will play a key part in bringing new ideas to the table (tools, processes) that will make our approach streamlined and scalable.

Requirements

Scope of role:

Reporting to the Head of Talent, you will be responsible for:

• Owning delivery of Technology roles for existing and future team needs
• Lead all aspects of the process; kick-off, sourcing, attraction, engagement and offer
• Use multiple outbound channels and communication tactics that will help us attract faster
• Ensure a great candidate experience and hiring manager experience; everyone is kept up to date, with a focus in speed and quality
• Work closely with the wider team to increase our overall brand and employer value proposition (EVP)

Skills & Experience

• Inhouse experience in recruiting for software engineering & product roles
• Worked in a high growth / scaling environment, building global teams
• Strong understanding and awareness to engage with top tech talent
• You are a natural relationship builder and possess good emotional intelligence
• Growth mindset; resourceful, driven and flexible to try new methods to hire
• Process driven to execute end to end and deliver a great experience (candidates and hiring managers)
• Are excited about a fast paced environment with room to learn, grow and improve

Benefits

• Package: A very competitive base salary
• Equity: A lucrative equity offer to ensure this grows as the business grows over time
• Fully Remote: We are a global and distributed team cross Europe. You chose the city and ideal spot
• Holidays: 25 days of annual leave, plus any local bank holidays based on your location
• Equipment: High-quality gear and budget to purchase office equipment for your ideal setup
• Learning: Whatever courses, certificates and skills you have in mind, we will support you throughout your journey whilst at Fonoa
• Fonoa Fridays: Lunch is on us twice a month :)
• Company Off-site: An annual, expenses paid global meetup of the Fonoa team somewhere fun in the world (post-Covid)
• High growth: An opportunity to really accelerate your career, working with a truly global team, experienced founders, and strong VC backing.

Location

Remote but has to be between UTC-1 and UTC+3. Please don't apply if you can't fit your long-term schedule during those working hours. However, we will soon be expanding our preferred time zones, so stay tuned!

Fonoa Culture

• Fonoa is a fully remote company and team members working across 9 different countries in a fully-distributed way
• Flexible hours, set your own schedule that fits you
• Best ideas win, no matter who expresses them
• Builder's first mindset. We give everyone a lot of autonomy to think of and deliver on their ideas
• We move fast and enable small teams to ideate, prototype, test, and iterate quickly
• Flat structure, excited team members, great incentives, no corporate BS
• We value writing, mental clarity, and neat digital organization skills
• We nurture asynchronous communication enabling everyone in the team to organize their work however they see fit

More about Fonoa

• At Fonoa, we automate taxes for platforms, marketplaces, digital service providers, and e-commerce globally.
• With our software, we help our clients reduce manual workload, cost of operations and compliance, and optimize their revenue.

Fonoa is serving small and large companies worldwide and helping their developer, tax, and operations teams handle the tax complexities quickly, in an easy to implement and user-friendly way.

Fonoa is a technology startup founded in 2018 which launched its SaaS product in mid-2019. We have paying customers, a healthy pipeline, and backing from world-class VC funds and business angels from Europe and the US.

We are a remote-first team working across 9 countries (and we will continue to do so well after Covid). We focus on building best in class products based on observed customer needs and previous industry experience. Our team has an excellent track record of solving challenging problems at companies such as Uber, McKinsey, Trivago, Rocket Internet, and EY.