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Location: Berlin (office-first)

About Us

We’re Cortea, a Berlin-based B2B SaaS startup transforming audits through AI technology.

Audits are still highly manual, involving endless checks of unstructured data and documents a frustrating, time-consuming, and costly process for both auditors and regulated companies. At Cortea, we’re changing that. Our AI-powered software and specialized AI agents streamline workflows, eliminate repetitive tasks, and free auditors to focus on what matters most.

Starting with IT audits for regulated companies, we’ve built a working product, secured paying customers, and raised multi-million Euro funding from top-tier VCs including Cherry Ventures. We’re now expanding our product and scaling our team.

We value first-principles thinking, speed, trust, and the joy of tackling big challenges together.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist to build Cortea’s hiring function and help us attract, hire, and retain exceptional talent. As one of our first people-focused hires, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our culture and scaling our team in Berlin and beyond.

This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who loves building strong teams, thrives in fast-paced environments, and wants to be part of an ambitious AI startup from the ground up.

What You’ll Do

• Own the end-to-end recruitment process for tech, product, and business roles: from sourcing to closing
  
  
• Partner with founders and hiring managers to understand team needs and craft compelling job descriptions
  
  
• Build and manage talent pipelines, ensuring a strong candidate experience at every stage
  
  
• Develop creative sourcing strategies to attract top talent across Europe
  
  
• Drive employer branding initiatives to position Cortea as a top destination for AI and SaaS talent
  
  
• Support onboarding to ensure new hires are set up for success
  
  
• Track and analyze recruiting metrics to continuously improve processes
  
  

Who You Are

• 2+ years of experience in talent acquisition, preferably in a startup, high-growth, or SaaS/tech environment
  
  
• Strong sourcing skills and ability to engage passive candidates
  
  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; you build trust quickly with candidates and colleagues
  
  
• Hands-on, proactive, and able to thrive in a dynamic, fast-changing environment
  
  
• Passionate about people and culture, with an eye for spotting top talent
  
  
• Based in Berlin (office-first role)
  
  
• Bonus: Experience hiring for technical roles or knowledge of the German startup/tech ecosystem
  
  

What We Offer

• High impact & ownership: Shape the future of Cortea’s team and culture from the ground up
  
  
• Growth & development: Direct mentorship from founders plus a learning budget for courses and conferences
  
  
• Mission-driven culture: Join an ambitious, collaborative team building AI solutions that truly matter
  
  
• Competitive package: Salary plus equity, based on experience
  
  
• Startup perks: Flexible vacation, team lunches, retreats, and a central Berlin office

Cherry Ventures is supporting our portfolio with this hire

Company: Forgent AI

Location: Berlin (Hybrid)

Type: Full-time

Start: ASAP

About Forgent AI

Europe's public sector spends €2.4 trillion a year, but the best companies can't compete because they're drowning in paperwork. Forgent AI builds domain-specific AI agents that automate the entire tendering process, from discovery to proposal generation to compliance, cutting manual effort by ~80%. We've onboarded 40+ organisations in under a year, we're backed by Cherry Ventures and angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, and we're scaling fast from Germany into Europe.

The Role

As Forgent AI’s first Customer Success hire, you’ll own the post-sale customer journey end-to-end: onboarding, adoption, value realization, renewals/expansion, and turning early customers into referenceable champions. You’ll work hands-on with our earliest customers to embed Forgent AI into tender workflows and build the CS playbook from scratch. 

This is a founding role: you’ll sit at the center of customers, product, and GTM, and you’ll help shape what we build next.

What You’ll Do

Own onboarding and time-to-value

• Lead structured onboarding for procurement/tender teams and cross-functional stakeholders (BD, legal, technical SMEs).
  
  
• Map each customer’s tendering process and implement Forgent AI into it end-to-end.
  
  
• Drive fast time-to-first-submission and repeatable rollout motions.
  
  

Drive adoption, retention, and expansion

• Build adoption plans and run QBRs/value reviews tied to measurable outcomes: hours saved, cycle-time reduction, tender throughput, compliance error reduction, and improved input to win rate.
  
  
• Own renewals and expansions in close collaboration with the leadership and sales.
  
  
• Multi-thread relationships (bid manager, procurement lead, compliance/legal, exec sponsor).
  
  

Be the customer voice in product

• Translate tender pain points into clear product requirements (e.g., form automation, compliance checks, discovery/matching).
  
  
• Create feedback loops with Product/Engineering on AI quality, accuracy, compliance, and human-in-the-loop review workflows.
  
  
• Help define “quality bars” for AI-generated tender responses (factuality, completeness, tone, locality, compliance).
  
  

Build the CS function from scratch

• Create onboarding templates, success plans, customer health scoring, playbooks for risk/stalls, and escalation paths.
  
  
• Build enablement: training, best-practice guides, internal champions program.
  
  
• Develop reference assets: case studies, lighthouse accounts, and proof points for GTM.
  
  

Navigate complex environments

• Support customers in regulated, high-stakes procurement contexts where QA/compliance gates matter.
  
  
• Coordinate stakeholders across procurement, legal, and exec teams to keep implementations moving.
  
  

What Success Looks Like (first 6–12 months)

• Fast time-to-value: first successful tender submission with Forgent AI achieved quickly and repeatably.
  
  
• Deep adoption: Forgent becomes part of weekly tender operations, not a “pilot tool.”
  
  
• Clear ROI: measurable reduction in prep time and admin workload; increased tender participation capacity.
  
  
• Retention + expansion: strong renewals and expansion path as product broadens into discovery/compliance/workflow.
  
  
• Scalable CS motion: a repeatable playbook the next hires can run.
  
  

Who You Are

Must-haves

• 5+ years in Customer Success / Implementation / Solutions / Customer Ops for B2B SaaS (mid-market/enterprise).
  
  
• Strong track record owning onboarding → adoption → renewals (and ideally expansion).
  
  
• Excellent stakeholder management and project execution in complex environments.
  
  
• Comfortable working with technical and non-technical teams; able to explain AI workflows simply and credibly.
  
  
• Builder mindset: you create structure, obsess over outcomes, and thrive in ambiguity.
• C1 German and business fluent English language skills.
  
  

Nice-to-haves

• You can troubleshoot a SaaS product, reproduce a bug, and write a clear ticket for engineering without hand-holding
• Experience with regulated/compliance-heavy workflows (procurement, legal, public sector, govtech, RFP/RFI/bid management).
  
  
• Experience defining and tracking ROI metrics and customer health frameworks from scratch.
  
  

Why Join Now

• You’ll be the first Customer Success hire, shaping how we deliver outcomes and scale retention from day one.
  
  
• You’ll influence the product roadmap directly as we expand from proposal generation into a broader procurement operating system.
  
  
• You’ll work onsite in Berlin with the founding team, moving fast and learning directly from customers.
  
  

Practical Details

• Location: Berlin (Hybrid); we are a high-intensity onsite team in Berlin (4 days/ week) because building from 0 to 1 requires high-bandwidth collaboration.
  
  
• Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful early-stage equity

Cherry Ventures is supporting our portfolio with this hire

Product Manager (m/f/d) – Berlin | Full-Time

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

About Forgent AI

Forgent AI is 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 Anthropic, our founding team has previously raised over €500M and built AI systems at global scale.

In recent months, we’ve seen incredible early customer traction across diverse customer profiles. Now, we’re looking for an exceptional, technical product generalist to join our team and help us translate this momentum into a world-class product that solves our customers’ most complex problems.

The Role

This is a unique opportunity to join Forgent AI on the ground floor as our first product hire.

We’re looking for a Product Manager who can own complex product and commercial problems end-to-end — operating at the intersection of our customers, technology, and business. You’ll partner directly with the founders and engineering team, shaping both your role and the company’s product culture as we scale.

What You’ll Do

• End-to-End Ownership: Lead the lifecycle of core product initiatives from discovery to launch and iteration, partnering directly with engineering to ship world-class AI products.

• Tackle Unsolved AI Problems: Dive deep into complex, unsolved AI challenges—figuring out how to build and scale agents for high-stakes enterprise workflows.

• Engage Strategic Customers: Work directly with customers to understand their needs, gather feedback, and become a trusted partner.

• Shape the Product Roadmap: Collaborate with customers, founders, and engineers to scope new features, define product direction, and prioritize the roadmap.

• Make AI Useful: Apply hands-on technical know-how (prompt engineering, context management, AI evaluations) to make cutting-edge AI valuable for real-world workflows.

You’ll Thrive Here If You…

• Have 2–4 years of experience in product management, software engineering, or a related field.

• Hold a technical background (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent professional experience.

• Are customer-obsessed, with a deep understanding of user pain points and how AI can drive value.

• Thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments where you help build the playbook, not just follow one.

• Are a strong communicator, skilled at using both qualitative and quantitative reasoning.

• Are based in Berlin (or open to relocating).

• Speak fluent English and German.

• Bonus: Experience with AI/LLMs or B2B enterprise software.

What’s In It for You

• Work side-by-side with top-tier founders and shape a company before it scales.

• Full exposure to early-stage company building — from product to fundraising.

• Fast track to leading a core product area.

• Competitive compensation, including equity.

• Join an AI-first company tackling a mission that matters.

Learn more here: Why join Forgent AI?

Cherry Ventures is supporting our portfolio with this hire

Founding Talent Acquisition & People Ops Manager (m/f/d) – Berlin

Full-Time | Onsite (Berlin)

About Forgent AI

Forgent AI builds 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.

We are backed by Cherry Ventures and leading angels from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta. Our founding team has previously raised more than €500M and built AI systems at global scale.

We have achieved strong early traction with enterprise customers and have a full sales pipeline. Now we’re looking for exceptional talent to build the People function that will scale our team, attract world-class builders, and establish the culture and systems that turn this momentum into lasting impact.

The Role

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

You will work directly with the founders to scale the team from 10 to 50+ people — hiring exceptional talent, designing onboarding, and creating light-touch processes that enable everyone to 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, and implement light-touch performance systems

• Run the full spectrum of team operations: coordinate founder calendars, book travel, organize team offsites and remote work weeks

• Handle operational backbone tasks: manage contracts, payroll, and compliance across multiple countries; own the full candidate experience from first outreach through day one

• Act as a thought partner to the founders: advise on hiring strategy, help close critical hires, and support building teams that ship production AI at scale

You’ll Thrive Here If You…

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

• Have a strong track record hiring technical and commercial talent in competitive markets

• Think holistically about talent and business outcomes

• Default to action over perfection — you ship fast and iterate

• Are based in Berlin (or eager to relocate)

• Speak fluent English

What’s In It For You

• Fast-track to People leadership — build and lead the function as we scale

• Direct work with founders who have raised more than €500M and built AI at global scale

• Access to mentors from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta via our investor network

• Competitive compensation

• An AI-first approach to solving a mission that matters

• More insights here: Why Joining Forgent (insert link)

Join Us

Join us at Forgent AI and help companies win more business in the €2 trillion public procurement market.

Cherry Ventures is supporting our portfolio with this hire

Location: Berlin (office-first)

About us

We’re Cortea, a Berlin-based startup building AI products that transform how audits get done.
Auditors spend too much time on manual, repetitive work. We’re fixing that by giving them AI tools that understand their workflows and eliminate the grind. Backed by top-tier VCs with €10m+ in funding, real customers, and a working product — now it’s time to scale.

We value first-principles thinking, speed, trust, and kindness. We work side by side in our Berlin office, moving fast and learning faster.

The Role

This isn’t a “support the founders” role — it’s a build with the founders role.
As Founders Associate (Product), you’ll work side by side with Philipp (Co-Founder) on all product topics — shaping what we build, how we build it, and the impact it creates.

You’ll be part of a small, high-trust team bringing Cortea from product-market fit to category leadership. The work is dynamic, collaborative, and full of ownership — expect variety, real responsibility, and constant learning from day one.

What you’ll do

• Work hand-in-hand with our founders on product strategy and execution

• Turn ideas, feedback, and user insights into actionable product decisions

• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and customers to ship real value

• Drive structure into chaos: refine our roadmap, process, and priorities

• Help us learn faster — run experiments, validate hypotheses, and measure outcomes

You’ll grow faster here than anywhere else if you crave ownership, speed, and real impact.

Who you are

• 2+ years of product-related experience (PM, strategy, consulting, or similar)

• Worked in fast-paced environments — startup, scale-up, or consulting — and loved the pace

• Curious, analytical, and empathetic — you go deep to always understand the Why behind problems

• Structured and reliable; you bring calm and clarity to complex problems

• Strong communicator who connects naturally with both tech and non-tech teams

• Motivated by constant learning, real impact, and fun collaboration

• Strong communicator in English and German

• (Bonus) You’ve founded something before — a project, startup, or initiative