Job Description

Talent Acquisition Partner (Sales Focused)

🕐 Fixed-term (1-year) contract · Full-time

About SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero — those who have the courage to follow their passion and the determination to realise their dreams.

Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we're creating powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a team-first attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure that small business owners can be successful doing what they love.

About the Team

You’ll join our Global Talent Acquisition team, dedicated to finding and empowering the best talent across SumUp. This role will focus on the Sales hiring stream — one of the fastest-growing and most business-critical areas at SumUp.

As a Talent Acquisition Partner, you’ll work day-to-day with Sales leaders across Europe and help design and deliver a best-in-class, data-driven hiring process that supports our commercial expansion and raises the bar for hiring quality and candidate experience.

You’ll be based in one of our main hubs, Milan and collaborate closely with colleagues across multiple European markets.

What You’ll Do

• Own the end-to-end recruitment process for Sales roles across Europe.
• Partner with Sales leaders to define scorecards, interview loops, and SLAs, ensuring alignment and quality.
• Build persona-based sourcing plans and collaborate with Employer Branding to craft targeted messaging.
• Maintain a structured, data-informed process, analysing funnel performance and driving improvements.
• Champion candidate experience, ensuring timely communication and a high standard of engagement.
• Leverage automation and TA tools (e.g. Greenhouse, Looker, Brighthire) to improve efficiency and consistency.
• Drive weekly funnel reviews, highlight insights, and partner with stakeholders to remove blockers.

You’ll Be Great for This Role If You

• Bring hands-on experience in high-volume Sales recruitment, ideally across multiple European markets.
• Have a proven track record in structured hiring (scorecards, interviewer training, data-driven decision-making).
• Excel at building relationships with stakeholders and influencing hiring managers as a trusted advisor.
• Use data and insights to guide hiring strategy and continuously improve funnel performance.
• Have strong communication and prioritisation skills, thriving in a fast-paced, scale-up environment.
• Are naturally curious, proactive, and motivated by creating great candidate and stakeholder experiences
• Fluency in French and English and an additional European language (e.g. Italian, German, Portuguese or Spanish).

Why You Should Join SumUp

🌎 Opportunity to work with SumUppers globally on large-scale fintech products used by millions of businesses worldwide, from our Berlin office. This involves an office-first setup
🌈 Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: be part of a workplace that values and promotes diversity, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone's perspectives are respected and embraced
📚 A dedicated annual L&D budget of €2000 for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education
🌴 Break4me: 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service

At SumUp, we’re on a mission to empower small businesses around the world with simple, affordable tools to help them start, run, and grow. More than 4 million merchants across 36 markets trust us as their financial partner — and we’re just getting started.

We’re a global team of 3,000+ people from over 90 nationalities, united by curiosity, collaboration, and care. Our core values and culture shape everything we do, fostering inclusion, learning, and belonging.

SumUp is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, committed to building a safe, respectful, and diverse workplace where everyone can thrive.

👉 Explore more about our culture on our careers site, or follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram

Job Application Tip

We recognise that candidates feel they need to meet 100% of the job criteria in order to apply for a job. Please note that this is only a guide. If you don’t tick every box, it’s ok too because it means you have room to learn and develop your career at SumUp.