Working Student Recruiting (m/f/d)
As a Working Student in talent acquisition at OKAPI:Orbits, you play an active role in finding the right talent for our team, which builds SaaS solutions covering the entire satellite lifecycle. You support our Operations team in day-to-day operations, help keep the application process running smoothly, and make sure new colleagues get the best possible start with us. This includes maintaining an overview of all open positions, ensuring a smooth handover of candidates between stages and coordinating interview slots with different departments.
About the role
Key responsibilities
- Supporting the execution of 1st interviews to assess company culture fit
- Monitoring and coordinating the interview process to keep deadlines on track and all stakeholders informed
- Preparing onboarding documentation for new hires
- Processing and evaluating application questionnaires with support of Claude as part of the recruiting process
- Supporting the preparation of 2nd interview commercial/technical challenges for candidates
- Coordinating scheduling between candidates and hiring teams with Microsoft Bookings
- Ensuring timely processing of candidates in our HR software Personio
- Supporting the recruiting team with general administrative tasks
What you bring
Must have
- Completed Bachelor's degree (HR, Psychology, Legal, Business or related), or at least 2 years of experience as a working student
- Available onsite in Braunschweig, ideally 20 hours per week, starting immediately
- Structured, reliable and detail-oriented way of working with sensible information
- Excellent communication skills in German and English
- Confident use of MS Office (Sharepoint, Bookings)
- Excellent communication skills
Nice to have
- Initial experience in HR, recruiting or people operations
- Recruiting experience in high-pace companies with deep-tech products
- Experience with German (and Spanish) labour law
What we offer
A permanent contract, a real budget to learn, and a team that reviews its own benefits with the people who use them. Flexible core hours, 30 days of holiday, a subsidized pension, Hansefit, a BahnCard, and workation for more than a month a year.
Who you’ll work with
“You will own a slice of the platform end to end. Nobody here hands you a ticket and walks away.”
Engineering
How we work
How we work
- Reality over abstractionReal catalogues, real physics, real orbital data. Demos run on the same engine that flies for customers.
- Clarity over decorationOperational tools earn their place by what they let you decide, not by what they look like at trade shows.
- Audit by defaultEvery decision is stamped, versioned, and exportable. There is no undocumented path.
- No conflict of interestWe do not operate satellites. Our only incentive is the accuracy of the assessment.
- Calm in the roomOperations work is high-stakes. The platform lowers the stress level, not amplifies it.
About OKAPI:Orbits
Space Situational Awareness, built for operations
OKAPI:Orbits is a Braunschweig-based Space Situational Awareness (SSA) company. We build the operational layer that satellite operators, governments, and institutions rely on to keep spacecraft safe in increasingly congested orbits.
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