People Partner / HR Lead

About us
Iterasec is one of the top Eastern European cybersecurity pentesting companies with ~35 people. We do penetration testing and security consulting for fintech, software, automotive, and other regulated companies across Europe and the Middle East. Our team is small, strong, and deeply technical. We've grown to the point where people matters need a dedicated owner, and that's why we're opening this role.

Why this role exists
So far, hiring and HR have been handled by the founders on top of everything else. We want someone who will take full ownership of this area, build lightweight processes that fit our size, and help us find and keep great people.

What you'll do

Recruitment (about 50–60% of the role at the start)

• Rebuild our hiring process so it focuses on finding talent, not just moving people through stages.
• Own screening and HR interviews so that only strong, well-matched candidates reach the technical team.
• Source proactively: find new channels and communities where security talent lives, and don't wait for applications.
• Run hiring for non-technical roles (sales, marketing, operations) end-to-end.
• Clean up our candidate database and make it a usable talent pool.

People operations and HR

• Formalize the performance review process: goals, regular check-ins, and clear expectations for everyone.
• Identify key talent with the leadership team and track their engagement, growth, and long-term retention.
• Take over payroll and HR administration, with support from our accountants.
• Run the everyday people experience: onboarding, work anniversaries, holidays, and team events, done with care.

Employer brand

• Help build Iterasec's reputation as a place where strong security engineers want to work, through content, community, events, and university ties.

What we're looking for

• 2–4 years in HR or recruitment, including at least 1.5 years in IT or tech companies.
• Hands-on experience hiring technical specialists, ideally including active sourcing.
• Experience setting up at least some HR processes (performance reviews, onboarding, engagement), not only following existing ones.
• Comfort working as a one-person HR function in a small company: you are both the strategist and the executor.
• Fluent in Ukrainian and good English (B1+).
• Good judgment about people and the ability to spot talent, not just check boxes.

Nice to have

• Experience in cybersecurity, IT services, or other niche technical hiring.
• Employer branding or recruitment marketing experience.

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Social package (paid vacation and sick days, sports and learning budget, English lessons, medical expenses compensation)
• Real ownership: you shape the function from scratch, with direct access to the CEO.
• Professional, low-bureaucracy culture: a small team of strong specialists, clear internal processes, and quick decisions without layers of approval.
• Meaningful domain: you'll work with some of the best security engineers in Ukraine, in a niche where finding and keeping talent really matters.