Active Search Ownership

About Scalable Capital

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment and banking platform with a full banking license, enabling people in Europe to manage their finances themselves. With the Scalable Broker, customers can invest in stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and derivatives affordably, easily, and professionally, and set up savings plans. The digital asset management service Scalable Wealth offers professional investment in ETF portfolios, which is also used by banks and other B2B partners as a white-label solution. Attractive interest rates, loans, and private equity round off the offering. With the European Investor Exchange, Scalable Capital offers a stock exchange specifically for private investors. Over one million customers have already invested more than 30 billion euros on the platform.

Scalable Capital was founded in 2014 and today employs over 700 people in Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, and London. Together with the founding and management team around Erik Podzuweit and Florian Prucker, they are working on a new generation of financial services.

Visit our finance blog or check out our social media channels to hear what our expert teams have to say.

Our company values guide us every day in our work and collaboration. To learn more about them, find our values here (English).

Job Description

• Active Search Ownership: You are responsible for the independent identification and approach of candidates via LinkedIn Recruiter and other relevant platforms (e.g., Talent Pools, Communities, Job/Tech Platforms) – with a clear focus on Direct Search.
• Sourcing Strategy & Targeting: You develop suitable sourcing strategies per role (target profiles, search strings, location/skill focus) and implement them efficiently.
• Pipeline Building & Talent Mapping: You continuously build qualified candidate pipelines, conduct talent mappings for prioritized target markets, and identify new candidate clusters.
• Outreach & Candidate Engagement: You create and optimize outreach messages, test different approach variants (A/B), and ensure a strong response rate and a professional candidate experience.
• Screening & Handover: You conduct initial, structured short screenings (asynchronous or in short calls) and hand over qualified candidates cleanly to recruiting/hiring teams, including a brief profile assessment.
• Tool- & ATS Hygiene: You reliably document sourcing activities in our systems (ATS/CRM), maintain candidate profiles, notes, and status correctly, and ensure transparency across the funnel.
• Market Insights & Reporting: You provide regular updates on market availability, competition, and profile searchability, and derive concrete recommendations for profile sharpening and prioritization.

→ This position is initially limited to one year.

Qualifications

• Several years of demonstrable practical experience in direct sourcing - ideally in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
• Sound understanding of talent markets in Europe, e.g., availability by region, salary and competition dynamics.
• Very good written communication skills and confident handling of different target groups; ability to write personalized outreach messages and systematically improve response rates.
• High discipline in documentation and pipeline management in ATS/CRM; proficient in tracking KPIs (e.g., response rate, conversion, time-to-shortlist) and deriving improvements.
• Ability to advise hiring teams with market insights and manage expectations based on data.
• Proactive, structured, and results-oriented way of working, as well as curiosity in research and a clear focus on sustainable pipeline building rather than short-term 'quick wins'.
• Very good English and German language skills, both written and spoken.

Additional Information

• Become part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible fintech startups in Europe and create an innovative service that has a significant impact on the lives of our customers.
• Scalable Capital offers varied work across all channels, where our customers are always at the center, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with an international, diverse, inclusive, and growing team that loves to develop the best products for our customers.
• Work in our central office in Munich or Berlin.
• Productive work with state-of-the-art hardware and tools.
• Internal knowledge sharing sessions across team boundaries, as well as internal career development training and a personal education budget for external events.
• The opportunity to work abroad.
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and company pension scheme.
• Monthly contribution of 50% to the 'Deutschland Ticket'.
• Free subscription for the PRIME+ Broker.
• With Urban Sports Club, you can exercise flexibly and at a discount as part of our team.