Über diese Tech Talent Acquisition Lead Stelle bei Pigment
We’re looking for a Tech Talent Acquisition Lead to lead recruitment across Pigment’s R&D organization, including Engineering, Product, IT, and Security.You will manage a team of three full-time Tech Talent Acquisition Managers, supported by external RPO partners when needed. Your role will be to develop the team, define the Tech recruitment strategy, and act as a trusted partner to R&D leaders.While this is primarily a leadership role, you will remain hands-on by managing selected strategic or complex searches.
What you’ll do
Lead and empower the Tech TA team
- Manage, coach, and develop a team of three Tech Talent Acquisition Managers
- Create a healthy and collaborative environment built on trust, transparency, and shared accountability
- Leverage the team’s expertise and give each member the autonomy to own their roles, stakeholders, and projects
- Set clear priorities and allocate resources based on the hiring plan, business needs, and team capacity
- Support the team with complex searches, stakeholder challenges, and offer negotiations
Define the Tech recruitment strategy
- Build the recruitment strategy based on Pigment’s workforce plan, hiring priorities, and talent-market conditions
- Translate the hiring plan into a clear roadmap for the team
- Anticipate hiring needs, capacity constraints, risks, and dependencies
- Develop tailored strategies for critical or hard-to-fill roles
- Adjust priorities and approaches based on business changes, market insights, and recruitment data
Partner with R&D leaders
- Act as the main Talent Acquisition partner for R&D leadership and Hiring Managers
- Align stakeholders on hiring priorities, target profiles, assessment criteria, and timelines
- Provide clear visibility into pipeline health, progress, risks, and team capacity
- Use data and market insights to guide decisions, challenge assumptions, and recommend actions
- Coach Hiring Managers and interviewers to improve assessment quality and decision-making
- Help unblock complex situations and maintain efficient hiring processes
Remain hands-on
- Own selected strategic, senior, or complex searches end-to-end
- Proactively identify and engage high-quality candidates
- Build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing strategies
- Support offer negotiations and closing when needed
- Ensure a consistent and high-quality candidate experience
Improve hiring performance
- Track key metrics, including pipeline health, conversion rates, time-to-hire, offer acceptance, and source effectiveness
- Assess progress against the hiring plan and identify areas for improvement
- Improve recruitment processes, workflows, and tools
- Maintain consistent and scalable hiring practices across R&D
- Lead initiatives such as interviewer training, talent mapping, candidate experience, and Tech employer branding
Who you are
- You have strong experience in Tech Talent Acquisition, ideally in a fast-growing and international environment
- You have experience managing/mentoring and developing a Talent Acquisition team
- You know how to create a collaborative environment while giving people autonomy and holding them accountable
- You can translate a hiring plan into a clear recruitment strategy and priorities
- You are comfortable advising, influencing, and challenging senior stakeholders
- You are hands-on and enjoy managing strategic or complex searches
- You are data-driven and use recruitment metrics and market insights to guide decisions
- You bring clarity and structure to complex, fast-changing environments
- You care deeply about hiring quality and candidate experience