EMEA Talent Acquisition Partner
Strategic talent acquisition partner responsible for scaling engineering and go-to-market teams across EMEA, supporting market entry and advising senior leaders on regional hiring strategy. The role combines hands-on full-cycle recruiting with talent-market intelligence, employer branding, and recruitment optimization.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior and executive stakeholders to understand business objectives, growth plans, and capability gaps.
- Translate market-entry and growth plans into scalable, data-driven regional talent acquisition strategies.
- Advise leaders on talent-market feasibility, including availability, cost, timing, and risk.
- Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for senior, critical, and hard-to-hire roles.
- Design and execute sourcing strategies for engineering and commercial talent across EMEA.
- Shape local hiring approaches while maintaining a consistent global hiring bar.
- Represent the employer brand across EMEA and help localize the employee value proposition.
- Identify and activate employer-branding opportunities through events, content, communities, referrals, and social presence.
- Ensure an inclusive, consistent, and authentic candidate experience.
- Use data to forecast hiring needs, track progress, and optimize recruitment performance.
- Improve talent acquisition processes, tools, and collaboration models to support speed, quality, and scale.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a strategic talent acquisition partner leading full-cycle hiring for engineering and go-to-market talent in the defense or public-sector SaaS space.
- Demonstrated success supporting new-market entry and rapidly scaling teams.
- Strong credibility with senior leaders and executives as a trusted talent advisor and business partner.
- Deep understanding of EMEA talent dynamics, sourcing strategies, and competitive intelligence.
- Consultative and commercially minded, with comfort operating in ambiguous environments.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
Skills
Talent Acquisition, Full-Cycle Recruiting, Sourcing Strategies, Employer Branding, Talent Strategy, Market Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, Recruitment Analytics, Candidate Experience, Go-To-Market Recruiting
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