[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.

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, and 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.
• Stakeholder Partnership:
  • Build trusted partnerships with internal stakeholders.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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, including workflow configuration and automation features.
• 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.