Talent Operations

Monumental is automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Our mission is to make construction primarily software-defined and work towards a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings are built within a single day with minimal labour.

We’re a growing team of about 80 members, mostly engineers and technicians, with backgrounds from companies like Palantir, Qualcomm, Dyson, Shopify, Tesla, Meta, and 1X. It’s still the early days of building the company, and this is a unique opportunity to be an early employee in a high-growth, high-ambition startup environment. From Day 1, you’ll work with an experienced founding team backed by top-tier investors.

Monumental is based near Artis zoo in the Plantage, in the city center of Amsterdam. We have a beautiful office with an in-house workshop and robot testing facility. We’re explicitly not a hybrid or remote-first company: we enjoy collaborating 5 days a week at the office.

About you and this role

We’re looking for a highly organised Talent Operator—someone detail-oriented, structured, and systems-minded—who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You’ll play a key role in scaling our team and building our recruitment and operations function. You’ll be the go-to person for talent systems, coordinating interviews, improving candidate experience, onboarding new hires, and sourcing and interviewing talent.

You’ll manage our applicant pipeline and align our hiring team. Above all, you’ll dive headfirst into the messy, ambitious process of scaling up. Monumental is a unique company in that we’re solving the problem of on-site construction with a vertically integrated offering. We’re a hard tech company doing real R&D, financed through venture funding. We manufacture our hardware in-house, run a fully equipped workshop, manage a complex supply chain, and deploy masonry robots to construction sites across the Netherlands and the UK.

Your responsibilities will range from optimising our interview schedule to coordinating special projects to improve candidate experience. Like other startups, you’ll schedule interviews. Unlike other startups, you’ll also be asking candidates’ shoe sizes to ensure they have the right footwear to safely visit construction sites.

You’ll be at the heart of our talent engine, ensuring Monumental operates smoothly. This role is perfect for someone who’s a natural organiser and systems thinker, spots inefficiencies others miss, and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves when things get messy.

What you'll be responsible for

• Supporting recruitment planning, interview scheduling, and onboarding new hires
• Owning inbound applications and end-to-end hiring for a range of novel roles
• Organising special projects like recruitment events and running social media ad campaigns
• Preparing agendas, notes, and follow-ups for hiring syncs and internal updates
• Enhancing our candidate experience from first contact through to signed offer
• Managing site visits—including logistics like safety gear and access
• Finding and testing new sourcing channels and creative ways to attract top talent

What we’re looking for

• Experience in a coordination, recruiting, people ops, or operations role—ideally in a startup, scale-up, agency, or VC-backed company
• Fluent in English; fluency in spoken and written Dutch is a nice to have
• Proactive and energetic: you take initiative and solve problems quickly
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail; you keep things and people on track
• Resourceful and persistent—you know how to unblock yourself and others
• Tech-savvy and fast to adopt new systems (experience with Ashby ATS or Metaview is a bonus)
• High empathy and action bias—you spot what needs doing and make it happen
• Comfortable context-switching and juggling multiple priorities throughout the day
• Strong communicator—you close loops, follow up, and over-communicate when needed

Why Monumental?

Joining Monumental means being at the forefront of a movement aimed at making significant strides in the construction industry. Here, your work has the potential to impact not just the company but the future of how we build. If you're driven by innovation, eager to tackle complex challenges, and ready to make a tangible difference, we want to hear from you.

For open applications (where you don’t see an exact role match), please reach out to us at: iwanttojoin@monumental.co – share with us the most interesting or challenging project you’ve worked on, why you want to join, and your CV or portfolio.

If you don’t meet all the qualifications here but are excited about Monumental and feel you’d still be able to help us solve difficult problems, do get in touch. We welcome generalists who focus on outcomes and are eager to learn on the job.