[Hiring] Lead Recruiter, Specialist Domains @Welo Global

Role Description

The Lead Recruiter, Specialist Domains owns the end-to-end recruitment of highly credentialled, domain-expert freelance talent across a defined portfolio of cultural, creative, and specialist domains. This is not a generalist recruitment role. Every candidate placed through this function must be a recognized practitioner or expert in their field – credentialled, verifiable, and operating at a level that generalists cannot replicate.

The Lead Recruiter, Specialist Domains combines hands-on sourcing and assessment with team leadership – directly identifying and evaluating rare talent while guiding a small team across talent acquisition, partner coordination, and vendor management.

• Oversight of a vendor management function responsible for pricing activities, support operations, and brand experience.
• Data-oriented, automation-assisted, and built for creative sourcing in markets where the talent does not self-present through conventional channels.

Main Responsibilities

Specialist Recruitment Delivery

• Source and identify candidates who combine senior-level domain expertise with specific language capabilities.
• Design and execute creative, non-traditional sourcing strategies, including:
  • Professional associations
  • Academic institutions
  • Creative guilds
  • Competitive circuits
  • Specialist forums
  • Community-based outreach
• Build and maintain evergreen talent pools across domains.
• Design structured assessment frameworks tailored to each domain.
• Compile and present evidence signal packages for every shortlisted candidate.
• Ensure a rigorous, respectful candidate experience appropriate to the seniority of the experts being engaged.

Team & Partner Management

• Provide daily guidance, coaching, and direction to a small team.
• Manage team capacity and allocate resources to meet global recruitment requirements.
• Prioritise and delegate work across the team.
• Set and maintain quality standards for candidate profiles and documentation.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing team culture aligned with Welocalize’s values.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Build trusted partnerships with internal stakeholders to understand hiring needs.
• Adapt communication style to the cultural and functional needs of each stakeholder group.
• Translate ambiguous SME briefs into precise sourcing criteria.
• Proactively communicate pipeline status, risks, and decisions.

Partner & Supplier Management

• Oversee external specialist partner relationships to ensure quality and responsiveness.
• Identify and onboard niche sourcing partners.
• Monitor partner performance against SLAs and quality standards.

Data, Automation & Continuous Improvement

• Operate as the primary Lever administrator for this function.
• Evaluate where automation tools improve sourcing efficiency.
• Analyse hiring data and market intelligence to identify trends.
• Use data to drive evidence-based prioritisation and process improvement decisions.
• Ensure hiring practices and evidence standards are applied consistently.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years demonstrated experience recruiting for highly specialised, hard-to-fill, or niche SME roles.
• Advanced proficiency with Lever ATS.
• Proven creative sourcing capability beyond job boards.
• Ability to assess and document candidate credentialing evidence at a senior practitioner level.
• Experience managing or coordinating a small team.
• Strong structured assessment skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Data-oriented working style.
• Experience managing or overseeing a vendor management function.

Requirements

• Experience with recruitment automation and AI-assisted sourcing tools.
• Background in freelance, contractor, or partner talent models.
• Experience with multilingual hiring across multiple regional markets.
• Familiarity with credentialing norms across key SME markets.
• Professional affiliations across the recruitment function.

Benefits

• We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process.
• Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.