Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

Accountabilities

• Own full-cycle recruitment for commercial positions across the UK and Europe, covering roles from individual contributors and account managers through senior leadership.

• Lead executive search assignments, including market mapping, target-company identification, talent-pool development, and direct outreach to passive candidates.

• Build high-quality candidate pipelines through LinkedIn, professional communities, referrals, industry events, personal networks, and other sourcing channels.

• Develop personalized outreach strategies that generate engagement from passive talent and convert initial conversations into qualified opportunities.

• Partner with hiring managers and executives as a trusted talent advisor, providing insight into market conditions, candidate availability, compensation expectations, profile requirements, and realistic hiring timelines.

• Conduct thorough candidate assessments and present focused shortlists supported by clear rationale and evidence of fit.

• Manage offers, negotiations, candidate expectations, and engagement throughout the recruitment process through to the candidate's first day.

• Maintain accurate recruitment data and ensure the applicant tracking system remains up to date, while reporting on pipeline health, hiring activity, and results.

• Share effective sourcing techniques, market knowledge, and search methodologies with the wider talent acquisition team.

• Support additional business and recruitment priorities as hiring needs evolve.

Requirements

• 6+ years of recruitment experience, with a strong emphasis on sourcing, direct search, and headhunting.

• Proven executive search experience, including successfully identifying and closing senior and C-level candidates through proactive direct approaches.

• Strong track record of recruiting commercial talent, particularly across sales, business development, and account management functions in the UK and Europe.

• Experience across recruitment or executive search agencies, in-house talent teams, and ideally international fintech or payments environments; alternative career paths are welcome where they demonstrate equivalent search expertise.

• Highly self-driven and autonomous, with the ability to organize priorities, manage searches independently, and proactively address obstacles.

• Persistent and resilient approach to recruitment, with the determination to continue engaging hard-to-reach passive candidates and build pipelines from scratch.

• Strong stakeholder-management skills and confidence working with senior hiring managers, executives, and other business leaders.

• Excellent candidate assessment and communication abilities, with a strong understanding of commercial talent markets.

• C1-level or higher English proficiency, both written and spoken.

• Fluent Russian.

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail when managing multiple searches and recruitment processes simultaneously.

Benefits

• Fully remote position within the European time zone.

• High-impact senior searches with direct exposure to and collaboration with leadership.

• Access to a corporate Claude license and a comprehensive sourcing toolkit.

• Significant freedom and autonomy to define your own sourcing and recruitment approach.

• Collaboration with an international team of experienced talent acquisition professionals.

• Multicultural working environment within a fast-growing global fintech.

• Vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays.

• Company-provided laptop.

• Opportunity to work on challenging commercial and executive-level searches with significant business impact.