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title: 'Senior Talent Acquisition Manager at fonio'
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# Senior Talent Acquisition Manager at fonio

- **Company:** fonio
- **Location:** Vienna, Austria
- **Compensation:** €65k–€80k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fonio/9456f451-be45-4d37-a4dd-6770f1214b2c

## Job description

Über fonio Wir sind in weniger als 12 Monaten von 1 Mio. auf 10 Mio. US Dollar ARR gewachsen und haben bereits jetzt über 10.000 Kunden. Fonio ist der europäische Marktführer für KI-Sprachagenten für SMBs. Nun expandieren wir weltweit und in neue Produktbereiche. Wir agieren schnell, glauben an ein hohes Maß an Ownership, leben direktes Feedback und verzichten auf Company-Politics und unnötige Meetings. Werde Teil einer der krassesten Wachstumsstories in Europa.

Aufgaben Hiring

- Ausarbeiten klarer Anforderungsprofile in direkter Abstimmung mit dem jeweiligen Hiring Manager
- Füllen der Pipeline mit high potential Kandidaten durch Active Sourcing, Aktivierung geeigneter Channels und effizientes Pre-Screening
- Effiziente Koordination aller Schritte des Hiring Prozesses
- Durchführen von Screening-Calls mit aussagekräftigen Ergebnissen
- Verhandlung von Arbeitsverträgen bis zum Abschluss

Entwicklung von Strategie und Strukturen

- Aufbau und Orchestrierung aller mit dem Hiring verbundenen administrativen Prozesse - effizient, lean und ohne Overengineering
- Entwicklung und Umsetzung unserer Employer Branding Strategie
- Koordination externer Partner
- Unterstützung bei Onboarding und Offboarding
- Aufbau von Grundlagen im Bereich HR - Einrichtung von Prozessen und Tools, Planung von Team Evens und enge Zusammenarbeit mit den Hiring Managern

Anforderungen

- Du hast Recruiting Prozesse in verschiedenen Formen und für diverse Rollenprofile gesehen und ausgeführt und hast dabei ein klares Verständnis davon entwickelt, wie Exzellenz im Recruiting aussieht
- Du kannst schlanke und skalierbare Prozesse von Grund auf definieren und implementieren
- Du arbeitest datengetrieben und misst Effektivität in harten Zahlen
- Du hast ein breites Verständnis von Plattformen und Softwarelösungen im Recruiting und kannst diese effizient aufsetzen und einsetzen
- Du bist nachweislich in der Lage, geeignete Kandidaten sowohl in Hinblick auf den inhaltlichen als auch den kulturellen Fit schnell und effizient aus einem großem Bewerberpool herauszufiltern
- Du bist in der Lage, deine Firma und die zu besetzende Rolle überzeugend und inspirierend an vielversprechende Kandidaten zu pitchen
- Du machst auch unter Druck keine Abstriche in Hinblick auf die Eignung von Kandidaten bei höchsten Ansprüchen

Was wir Dir bieten

- Kompetitives Gehalt: €65.000-€80.000 (Base + Provision)
- Eine Rolle mit extremen Ownership: Du trägst die volle Verantwortung für den Aufbau unserer Recruiting Function von Grund auf in direkter Zusammenarbeit mit unserem Recruiting Lead und dem C-Level
- Extrem kurze Entscheidungswege, viel Speed, viel Freiheit
- Top-Equipment & ein top ausgestattetes Office in Wien
- Großes Wachstumspotential: Wir wachsen schnell und priorisieren Beförderungen aus dem bestehenden Team immer erst einmal über Besetzungen von außen
- Zugang zu den neuesten AI-Tools & Workflows aus unserem eigenen Produkt

Bewerbungsprozess

- 15 Minuten Kennenlernen
- 30 Minuten fachliches Interview
- 20 Minuten Kultur & Team-Fit mit beiden Foundern

Bei Fragen, melde dich gerne bei unserem Recruiter, Max Herfert, unter + 49 151 1979 3432

## About fonio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: fonio is a European AI platform that provides AI phone assistants and omnichannel customer communication solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Vienna, Austria
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Daniel Keinrath (CEO) and Matthias Gruber (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered customer communication / Telecommunications
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with high volumes of customer calls
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To ensure no lead, customer, or opportunity is missed by providing 24/7 AI-powered communication across phone, WhatsApp, email, and chat.

## Products & Services
- **AI Phone Assistant**: An AI agent that handles inbound and outbound calls, capable of scheduling appointments, answering inquiries, processing orders, and transcribing conversations. It features speech recognition for difficult dialects, turn-detection for natural conversation flow, and real-time emotion recognition. It can be set up in under 10 minutes with no coding required.
- **Omnichannel Platform**: Expanding beyond voice to include WhatsApp (already live), with email and chatbot support to follow. The platform integrates with CRMs, calendar tools, and databases via native integrations and APIs.
- **Proprietary Calendar**: An AI-native calendar tool that is already live as part of the platform.
- **Proprietary CRM**: A CRM purpose-built for AI-driven customer interactions, expected to launch by the end of Q3 2026.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $140 million valuation (as of June 2026, per seed round)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of over $20 million, including a $17 million seed round led by 20VC (June 2026) and a €3 million angel round (December 2025).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 20VC (lead), with participation from founders and executives of Synthesia, HubSpot, and Revolut. Previous angel investors include early backers of Facebook and Airbnb.
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Over 7,000 customers across nine markets (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Poland, Brazil, UK, USA)
    - Automates over 2 million calls per month
    - Growing at roughly 40% month-over-month
    - Acquired competitor fluently in September 2025
    - Added $1 million in ARR in April 2026 alone, targeting a 5x increase by year-end
    - Opening offices in New York, Munich, Milan, Paris, London, Warsaw, and Barcelona

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary European Infrastructure**: Develops its own orchestration layer and models (speech recognition, turn-detection, emotion recognition), ensuring all data remains in the EU on servers in Nuremberg, Germany. This differentiates them from competitors who white-label US services.
- **High End-to-End Resolution Rate**: In roughly 90% of cases, the AI agent conducts a fully human-like conversation and resolves the inquiry without needing to route it to a human.
- **Builder-Heavy Team**: Over half the team are former founders, operations leaders, or people who have scaled products at companies like Canva.

## Strategic Focus
- **Omnichannel Expansion**: Moving beyond voice to become a full omnichannel platform (WhatsApp, email, chat).
- **International Expansion**: Establishing physical offices in key markets (New York, Munich, Milan, Paris, London, Warsaw, Barcelona) after recent launches in the UK and US.
- **Building an AI-Native Tool Ecosystem**: Developing a proprietary calendar and CRM to create a complete, integrated platform for customer communication.

## Why Work Here
- **Rapid Growth & Impact**: The company is in a phase of hypergrowth (40% MoM), and employees are "still early enough that your work will genuinely shape the culture, the product, and the company." [fonio.ai/en/careers](https://www.fonio.ai/en/careers)
- **Culture**: Described as fast, committed, and in-office by default. The team emphasizes moving fast and having fun. Most roles are Vienna-based, with the expectation of being in the office most days.
- **Remote Options**: Engineering roles are fully remote (within ±3 hours of CET). For other roles, there is a temporary relocation to Vienna for onboarding (1-3 months), followed by relocation to the target market.
- **Relocation Support**: The company sponsors travel and accommodation in Vienna for the onboarding period and offers full relocation support for moving to target markets.
- **Team Size**: Around 40-50 people, with plans to double by the end of the year.
- **Hiring Process**: A 3-4 step process: 15-minute intro call, 30-45 minute skills interview (sometimes with a case study), potentially a deeper skills or leadership interview, and a final 20-minute culture call with both founders. [fonio.ai/en/careers](https://www.fonio.ai/en/careers)

## Sources
1. [fonio.ai - Product Page](https://www.fonio.ai/en)
2. [fonio.ai - Careers Page](https://www.fonio.ai/en/careers)
3. [fonio.ai - Press Section](https://www.fonio.ai/en/press)
4. [fonio.ai - Seed Funding Press Release](https://www.fonio.ai/en/news-cool-stuff/pr-14mio-seed-funding-20vc)
5. [LinkedIn - fonio.ai](https://at.linkedin.com/company/fonio-ai)

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