[Hiring] Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist @AI Acquisition

Role Description

You will own our most senior internal searches end to end, from first conversation with the candidate through to offer. The people you'll be hiring are directors and C-level, so you are the first impression this company makes on them. You'll run intake directly with our founders and department heads, which includes telling them when the brief they've given you will not produce the hire they want.

This is not a coordination role. It is not suited to someone who needs the search strategy decided before they start.

What you'll own

• The full range of searches, end to end, several at once.
• Pipeline building ahead of the requisition.
• Candidate engagement over months, not days.
• Employer brand in practice.
• Strategic advisory to hiring managers.
• Intake and calibration with founders and department heads.
• First contact with director and C-level candidates.
• Direct sourcing where no pipeline exists.
• Written candidate evaluations a founder can decide on without a follow-up call.
• Quality oversight on shortlists coming through the delivery team.
• Testing what works.
• Assessment design and execution.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in talent acquisition, at least 3 of them in-house, embedded or RPO.
• Senior or leadership search experience.
• Demonstrable hiring into the US or UK market.
• Near-native spoken and written English.
• Evidence of managing senior stakeholders.
• Direct sourcing that works.
• Comfortable operating as an independent contractor.
• Real schedule flexibility across UAE, UK and US East Coast hours.
• Evidence of building talent pipelines ahead of demand.
• You have kept candidates engaged over months and converted them later.
• You can articulate an employer value proposition.
• Experience designing or running structured candidate assessments.
• You have tested and iterated on your own job posts.
• An active, credible LinkedIn presence.

Requirements

• Multi-country or multi-entity hiring.
• You've built process, not only run someone else's.
• You've been the only recruiter in the room and it was fine.
• You've overseen or coached junior recruiters.
• You've run A/B tests on titles, posts or channels.
• AI-assisted sourcing and outreach stack.
• You've built a talent pipeline that produced a hire months after the first conversation.
• You've worked somewhere with no employer brand and had to create the reason people said yes.

Benefits

• Up to $80K/Annually, as an independent contractor, based on experience.
• Direct access to founders.
• A real AI stack, used daily.
• A seat that rewards building.

How we hire

Application, one-way video, short written exercise, structured interview with our Global Head of People & Talent, working session with a founder. You'll know where you stand at every stage.