Work side-by-side with our founders (Timo, Leo and Erik)  to reinvent public procurement in Europe using AI.

About Forgent AI

At Forgent AI, we’re building 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.

Backed by Cherry Ventures and leading angels from OpenAI, DeepMind and Meta, our founding team has previously raised >€500M and built AI systems at global scale.

In the last months, we've achieved early traction with renowned enterprise customers and a full sales pipeline. Now we need exceptional talent to build the People function that scales our team, attracts world-class builders, and establishes the culture and systems that turn this momentum into lasting impact.

The Role

As Forgent's first People hire, you'll own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, GTM, and operations while building the systems that help our team perform at their best.

You'll work directly with founders to scale the team from 10 to 50+ people - hiring exceptional talent, designing onboarding that works, and creating the light-touch processes that let everyone do their best work without bureaucracy.

What You’ll Do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering, GTM, and operational roles: Source talent, design interview processes, and attract candidates who thrive in high-ownership environments
• Build foundational People systems: Design onboarding that gets people shipping in week one, create compensation frameworks that make sense, and implement light-touch performance systems - all without unnecessary bureaucracy
• Run the full spectrum of team operations: From coordinating founder calendars and booking travel to organizing team offsites and remote work weeks - you'll own everything that makes our team productive
• Handle the operational backbone: Manage contracts, payroll, compliance across multiple countries, plus manage candidate experience from first outreach through their first day
• Act as a thought partner to founders: Advise on hiring strategy, help close critical hires, and figure out how to build teams that ship production AI at scale

You’ll Thrive Here If You...

• Bring 2+ years in talent acquisition or people ops from a high-growth startup where you built systems from scratch