Leads day-to-day recruiter performance while personally owning priority searches, building direct-sourcing pipelines, and partnering with business leaders to improve hiring quality, speed, and consistency.
Talent Acquisition Lead
๐ Description
- Lead day-to-day talent acquisition delivery across commercial and go-to-market functions.
- Guide and support a small team of talent partners while balancing capacity, performance, and wellbeing.
- Own hiring delivery across multiple business areas, maintaining quality, pace, and consistency.
- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and translate hiring demand into executable plans.
- Manage requisitions from intake through offer and deliver a strong candidate and stakeholder experience.
- Use data and market insight to solve problems and improve hiring processes and delivery.
๐ ๏ธ Requirements
- Experience providing leadership, coaching or mentoring of Talent Partners
- Strong experience recruiting across commercial or go-to-market functions, ideally within a fast-paced or scaling environment
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to work with senior leaders and challenge constructively
- A strong delivery background - you have remained close to the hiring process and understand what good looks like
- Data-driven and process-minded, with a genuine interest in improving how Talent teams operate
Full job description
๐ Talent Acquisition Lead
๐ Dublin (3 days per week in office)
๐ Permanent role
Weโre hiring a Talent Acquisition Lead to lead a small talent team supporting a fast-growing fintech client hiring across EMEA.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who knows how to balance delivery, stakeholder management and commercial priorities. Youโll work closely with the client and talent team to keep hiring moving, solve challenges and continuously improve how we deliver.
๐ What Youโll Do
Lead day-to-day Talent Acquisition delivery for a strategic fintech client across commercial and go-to-market functions
Provide guidance and support to a small team of talent partners
Own delivery across multiple business areas, ensuring quality, pace and consistency
Build strong relationships with senior client stakeholders and act as a trusted partner
Translate hiring demand into clear, executable plans and priorities
Use data and market insight to identify trends, solve problems and improve decision-making
Manage your own requisition load, taking ownership of roles from intake through to offer and ensuring a high-quality candidate and stakeholder experience
Identify opportunities to improve processes, candidate experience and overall hiring delivery
Balance client expectations with team capacity, performance and wellbeing
๐ What You Bring
Experience providing leadership, coaching or mentoring of Talent Partners
Strong experience recruiting across commercial or go-to-market functions, ideally within a fast-paced or scaling environment
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to work with senior leaders and challenge constructively
A strong delivery background - you have remained close to the hiring process and understand what good looks like
Data-driven and process-minded, with a genuine interest in improving how Talent teams operate
๐ฌ Letโs Talk
If youโre an experienced Lead Talent professional who enjoys being close to the action, solving problems and making hiring work better for both the client and the team, weโd love to hear from you.
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