Some people think embedded recruitment is just joining a team and helping them hire. While that’s part of it, it doesn’t really define what truly makes the work matter.
This is a snapshot of the moments that capture life at Satellite. 🛰️
Each of our talent partners focuses on one client at a time, joining their team and owning hiring for their roles. Sometimes we join an existing Talent team. Other times we are the Talent team!
This could look like working from the client’s office, popping into hiring syncs like “hello yes I see you stressing, here’s how we fix this!”
Other days we’re orchestrating the whole process. Making sure every company pitch lands, every decision counts, and the right person joins the team at the right moment. 🤝
And some days you get the magic moment when it truly matters. The engineer we helped bring onboard shares their promotion with a huge smile, and we can see that this team’s growth includes our fingerprints too. 🥹
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Senior Talent Partner Angela is currently scaling the tech teams at our client, Artsy. 👋 |
Talent Partner Madalina enjoyed a few days in Milan at our client WithLess’ offsite, where they played discussed recruitment strategies and where to find the best pasta. |
Hiring moves fast, but we make time to slow down and learn from each other.
We run internal trainings with some of Berlin’s top TA experts, including our partner, Andreea who owns Talent Crunch. These trainings bring real-world perspective from building teams at scale. These sessions are practical, honest, and full of the kinds of conversations you rarely get time for during busy hiring weeks.
We also meet regularly in internal squads to share highlights, challenges, and small wins from our client work. One person’s tricky hiring situation turns into a group discussion, someone else shares a breakthrough moment, and suddenly everyone walks away sharper than before.
Attending an internal training on what it means to be a principal-level recruiter, hosted by our partner, Andreea Lungulescu
A big part of what we do happens beyond our own company.
We have partnered with communities like Talent Crunch on events in Berlin and Barcelona, supporting the spaces where recruiters come together to learn, debate, and share ideas. (Check out our recent collaboration here!)
The same goes for the dinners we host, bringing together TA professionals from different companies, sometimes clients, sometimes not, just people who care about building better hiring practices.
No big presentations, no sales agenda. Just good food, even better conversations, and a room full of people exchanging perspectives they can take back to their teams.
Our Co-founder Isabel taking to the stage at our recent Talent Crunch partnership event
We want our team to have the best of both worlds. The freedom that comes with remote work, and the chance to actually spend time together when it matters.
Our team is spread across Germany, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal, and the Berlin crew meets once a week at a co-working space. The rest of the week might be spent remotely or on-site working from a client’s office. It’s flexible by design, and this works for us and our clients.
The fun part is how we stay connected along the way. One Christmas we hired a magician for a remote magic show, which none of us knew existed until that moment!
At our most recent offsite in Berlin, we traded recruiting for an afternoon pottery class and quickly learned that shaping clay is not that different from building teams. Both take patience, practice, and a good sense of humour. 🫣
Questioning if magic is real at this point 🤯
Wrapping up our Berlin offsite with a wholesome pottery class!
Being fully in-house gives you depth. Embedded gives you depth and perspective. You build real relationships while learning from different teams and challenges over time.
And the best news? We’re hiring!