[Hiring] Senior Recruiter @UFORCE

Role Description

UFORCE is growing rapidly, and we're looking for a Senior Recruiter – Europe to play a key role in building the teams that will support our next stage of growth.

You'll work closely with leaders across the business, taking ownership of hiring while helping attract exceptional talent across highly competitive markets. This is an opportunity to have real impact beyond individual hires. You'll bring market insight, challenge thinking and help shape how we recruit as we continue to scale across Europe. We're looking for someone who enjoys working at pace, is comfortable with ambiguity and wants the autonomy to make things happen.

• Own end-to-end recruitment for priority mission-critical roles across Europe.
• Build proactive pipelines through direct sourcing, market mapping, referrals and targeted outreach.
• Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders to understand hiring priorities and translate them into effective search strategies.
• Define role outcomes, competencies, scorecards and structured interview processes.
• Assess candidates and provide clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• Own the candidate journey from first conversation through offer and close.
• Use recruiting data and market insight to improve pipeline quality, conversion and hiring outcomes.
• Support senior and confidential searches when required.
• Help improve our recruiting processes, tools and ways of working as UFORCE continues to scale.

Qualifications

• Strong end-to-end technical recruiting experience, including personally sourcing and closing hard-to-find talent.
• Experience recruiting within Operations, Mechanical, Electrical, software, hardware, AI, robotics, autonomy, defence, aerospace, engineering or another complex environment.
• A strong track record of proactive sourcing and talent mapping.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the confidence to advise and challenge hiring managers.
• Experience using structured, evidence-based interviewing and assessment.
• Strong candidate management and closing skills.
• A data-driven approach to recruiting and pipeline management.
• High ownership, sound judgement and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Requirements

• Experience recruiting within defence, aerospace, autonomy, robotics or deep tech.
• Experience hiring across multiple European markets.
• Experience with WHO methodology, MOCs, scorecards or similar structured hiring frameworks.