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Talent Acquisition Lead
Posted 29 May 2026
HR & RecruitmentHybridEmployment contractSenior
Description
Lead talent acquisition for a Polish tech scale-up planning to double headcount over the next 18 months. You'll build the recruitment function from scratch — process, team, tooling, and reporting — and own the outcome from sourcing through to first-90-day retention.
This isn't a role where you'll inherit a polished playbook. The function exists today as one person juggling reqs. We're hiring someone with the experience and judgement to set it up the right way the first time, not the third.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end TA strategy across engineering, product, and commercial hiring — including the role-level forecasting that informs it.
- Build and lead a team of 3–4 recruiters, including hiring them yourself and developing them once they're in.
- Define hiring processes, scorecards, and interviewer training so every loop produces decisions the company can defend.
- Partner with leadership on workforce planning, headcount budgets, and the hard trade-offs they imply.
- Build employer-brand work that materially improves inbound quality and reduces sourcing load.
- Own the recruitment-tech stack — choose, configure, and continuously improve the ATS, CRM, and assessment tools.
Requirements
- 6+ years in talent acquisition, including 2+ leading a team.
- Proven track record building recruitment functions at scale-ups from scratch or near-scratch.
- Strong data instincts and ATS expertise; comfortable defending pipeline metrics under pressure.
- Experience hiring across engineering as well as commercial — you're a credible buyer of both at least at the senior level.
- Comfortable presenting hiring forecasts and headcount trade-offs to the executive team.
- Fluent English and Polish.
- Nice to have: exposure to international hiring across CEE, experience implementing an ATS from scratch, background as a hiring manager (not just recruiter).