Chief Operating Officer (Headhunting Agency) (m/f/d) - Hamburg & Surroundings

Why A-LEVEL?

Do you want to grow professionally and actively shape the development of a modern headhunting agency? Perhaps you've also considered starting your own business, but the right opportunity hasn't arisen yet? Do you want a lot of responsibility and to scale a company together with the founder on an equal footing? Do you want your DNA to directly influence the agency's culture, and do you want to help build the team?

A-LEVEL has Proof of Concept and the demand is consistently higher than what we can handle. We need you for further scaling! Here, you have the opportunity to participate entrepreneurially in building the agency - both through the responsibility you carry and through profit and VSOP participation.

As Head of Headhunting, you will take on a central key position in our company and be responsible for ensuring that our clients are satisfied, we place enough candidates, and placement rates increase.

Working with me (Maximilian Wolf), you will find an experienced founder who has already successfully built and sold an agency with 40 employees.

What we do: A-LEVEL

We are the headhunting partner for companies in the startup and e-commerce sectors, strengthening businesses with the best industry talent.

Responsibilities

To further scale the agency, I, as the founder, need a person to whom I can hand over client mandates.

We are a headhunting agency in e-commerce in a very strong position, as demand is consistently higher than what we can deliver. Through the sale of my previous performance marketing agency, I have built a very strong network in e-commerce and online marketing over the past seven years, which ensures high reputation and provides significant momentum for growth.

90% of our mandates work with an advance payment from the client. I, as the founder, see myself as responsible for bringing new clients on board and expanding new client business.

Now I need a person to whom I can hand over our client mandates, who will bear the responsibility, grow the existing client business, and **generate revenue through placements with our mandates.**

Your Roles & Responsibilities:

Revenue Generation through Candidate Placements & Customer Success (70%)

• Operational and strategic responsibility for the successful completion of headhunting projects -> You are responsible for generating revenue from existing mandates.
• Operational management of project teams, prioritization of tasks, and workflow optimization.
• Direct communication with clients, ensuring quality standards, and reporting.
• New clients become repeat clients, and repeat clients are expanded.
• You are NOT responsible for acquiring new mandates - this is primarily not a 360° headhunting role. The marketing team and the founder are responsible for acquiring new clients.
• Operational assurance of a positive candidate experience throughout the entire process.
• Conducting and evaluating interviews.
• Negotiating offers and contracts in close collaboration with clients.

Personnel Management and Development (15%)

• Independent recruiting of new employees for A-LEVEL.
• Building and leading the team together with me as the founder.
• Ensuring a motivating and long-term attractive work environment.
• Training and coaching the recruiting team.

Product Development and Process Optimization (15%)

• Continuous development of our headhunting services and internal tools.
• Expansion of our AI systems that we use to make our work more efficient.
• Building our internal candidate ATS system -> Continuous expansion of our candidate database.
• Working on the agency together with me as the founder.

Qualifications

What you bring

• You are a person who interacts very well with people and can sell very well.
• You understand the difference between recruiting and headhunting - Recruiting is simply about processing people and ensuring quality. Headhunting is about placing candidates and generating revenue.
• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in headhunting, ideally in a similar position.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a manager.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Proven success in headhunting.
• Proficient in using recruiting platforms such as LinkedIn Recruiter.
• Fluent German and English language skills.

You in a few sentences?

You are a doer, you are eager to be entrepreneurial and scale the agency with me. You are solution-oriented and take charge of the position instead of making excuses. You are always revenue-oriented and think with me about how we can increase the agency's revenue and profit.

Benefits

• You will work directly with an experienced founder and managing director who has already successfully built a marketing agency with 40 employees.
• You will actively participate in building a modern headhunting agency and benefit directly.
• Your DNA and values will directly flow into the agency's culture. You will have the opportunity to build a new team yourself.
• Remote-Hybrid Culture: Our office is in Hamburg, but you can generally work from anywhere.
• You can set your own working hours flexibly.
• You will receive a new work MacBook.
• Team Spirit: A young, motivated team consisting only of really good people who want to build something together.
• Attractive Compensation: €100,000 Baseline.
• Scalable profit sharing directly on EBITDA & VSOP (direct company shares).

Are you ready for your next career step?

Become part of A-LEVEL and help us take headhunting to a new level! We look forward to receiving your application.