Recruitment / HR Specialist

Why this role exists
So far, the founders have handled hiring and HR on top of everything else, and we've reached the point where that no longer works. Our biggest challenge is recruitment: finding exceptional security engineers. We need someone who will own hiring end-to-end and proactively find people others can't. Alongside that, you'll take over core HR processes such as performance reviews, onboarding, and retention, and keep them lightweight and fitted to our size.

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

• Run lightweight performance reviews, onboarding, and payroll coordination with our accountants.
• Help us keep key people happy and growing.
• Run the everyday people experience: 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 recruitment, including at least 1.5 years in IT or tech companies.
• A track record of closing hard technical roles (security, DevOps, senior engineers, or other niche profiles) through active sourcing, not only inbound applications.
• Sourcing skills: LinkedIn, professional communities, events, and referrals.
• Ability to assess candidates beyond the CV and spot real talent early.
• 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+).

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.