Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

• Own senior internal searches end to end, from initial candidate conversation through offer
• Manage multiple searches across seniority levels, including C-level and junior roles
• Build talent pipelines before requisitions open
• Maintain candidate engagement over extended periods
• Develop and communicate a compelling, truthful employer brand narrative
• Advise hiring managers on market conditions, timelines, compensation and role briefs
• Conduct intake and calibration with founders and department heads, including constructive disagreement
• Make first contact with director and C-level candidates and maintain their engagement throughout the process
• Direct-source candidates where pipelines and inbound channels are insufficient
• Write candidate evaluations enabling founder decision-making without follow-up calls
• Oversee shortlist quality from the delivery team
• Test titles, job-post copy and sourcing channels using A/B testing and applicant-quality data
• Design and run structured assessments, scorecards and one-way assessments against the hiring bar
• Use AI tools and agents as part of daily talent acquisition workflows

• Independent contractor engagement; invoice monthly and handle own tax and statutory obligations in country of residence
• 50 to 60 hour workweek
• Availability across UAE, UK and US East Coast hours, including calls outside standard business hours
• 6+ years in talent acquisition, including at least 3 years in-house, embedded or RPO; agency-only experience does not qualify
• Senior or leadership search experience
• Demonstrable hiring experience in the US or UK market
• Near-native spoken and written English
• Experience managing senior stakeholders and productively disagreeing with them
• Effective direct sourcing with measurable response rates
• Experience building talent pipelines ahead of demand
• Experience keeping candidates engaged over months and converting them later
• Ability to articulate and adapt an employer value proposition by audience
• Experience designing or running structured candidate assessments, including scorecards, structured interviews, work samples, psychometric or cognitive tools
• Experience testing and iterating on job posts and measuring results
• Active, credible LinkedIn presence with regular posting and engagement
• Comfortable operating as an independent contractor
• Preferred: multi-country or multi-entity hiring experience
• Preferred: process-building experience
• Preferred: experience as sole recruiter, coaching junior recruiters, A/B testing, AI-assisted sourcing and outreach using Clay, HeyReach, n8n, Exa or equivalent, building pipelines that produced later hires, and creating employer brand from scratch

• Up to $80K/Annually, as an independent contractor, based on experience
• Direct access to founders
• A real AI stack, used daily: Clay, HeyReach, n8n, Exa, LLM screening built into the workflow
• Room to build your own AI-assisted workflows and agents
• Opportunity to build and implement talent frameworks and processes from zero
• Transparent hiring process with visibility at every stage