À propos de ce poste Director, Talent Acquisition chez Sapiosciences
Sapiosciences · Télétravail · Remote
About Sapio Sciences
Sapio Sciences is on a mission to accelerate scientific drug discovery and high-throughput clinical and diagnostics for our clients and partners. The Sapio team consists of expert and highly collaborative scientists, software developers, and professionals passionate about providing a best-in-class lab informatics platform and industry-specific solutions.
Sapio is one of the few software providers to offer a truly unified and highly configurable lab informatics platform and a broad suite of purpose-built solutions. The Sapio platform makes it easy for scientists, laboratory, and bio/informatics professionals to streamline and manage their end-to-end laboratory operations, from instrument data integration to workflow and experiment setup to sample and materials management, data management, and scientific data analysis and reporting.
Working at Sapio
At Sapio, we’re not just building lab informatics solutions. We’re creating tools made for the scientist and motivated to make the world a better place. We understand that lab informatics is about more than managing data or connecting workflows. It’s about making life easier for the scientist and making scientific progress faster for everyone. Our platform delivers the levels of configurability, usability and insight that scientists have only ever dreamed of.
We’re a team of scientists, developers and innovators who question convention and stay focused on what matters most - advancing drug discovery science. We challenge the status quo and respond to the needs at the heart of science with powerful solutions that are simple to use, effortless to evolve and downright easy to love.
As part of the Sapio team, you’ll work in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment where your ideas are valued, your growth matters and your work makes a difference.
We’re proud to partner with leading labs around the world, from ambitious start-ups to global organisations, who trust Sapio to support discovery, development and diagnostics with industry-first science-aware solutions.
Position Summary
Sapio Sciences is looking for a strategic, hands-on talent leader to own the end-to-end hiring process for the company and its dual-brand structure across Sapio and Sigmatic Sciences. As we scale, the Director, Talent Acquisition will be responsible for attracting, engaging, and hiring exceptional talent, ensuring every leader has the right people in the right seats to grow their teams with confidence. This role blends strategy with execution: building a scalable, brand-forward recruiting function while personally driving searches for critical and senior roles. This individual will serve as a trusted partner to the executive team and hiring managers, anticipating workforce needs, elevating the candidate experience, and ensuring Sapio is known as a destination for top talent in life sciences software. Living the Sapio brand and building genuine, lasting relationships with candidates and internal stakeholders will guide all activities.
Sapio Sciences is looking for a strategic, hands-on talent leader to own the end-to-end hiring process for the company and its dual-brand structure across Sapio and Sigmatic Sciences. As we scale, the Director, Talent Acquisition will be responsible for attracting, engaging, and hiring exceptional talent, ensuring every leader has the right people in the right seats to grow their teams with confidence. This role blends strategy with execution: building a scalable, brand-forward recruiting function while personally driving searches for critical and senior roles. This individual will serve as a trusted partner to the executive team and hiring managers, anticipating workforce needs, elevating the candidate experience, and ensuring Sapio is known as a destination for top talent in life sciences software. Living the Sapio brand and building genuine, lasting relationships with candidates and internal stakeholders will guide all activities.
Work Location
Remote (with a strong preference for candidates based in the US Eastern Time Zone / East Coast)
Remote (with a strong preference for candidates based in the US Eastern Time Zone / East Coast)
Responsibilities
Talent Acquisition Strategy & Ownership
• Own the full-cycle recruiting process end to end, from workforce planning and intake through sourcing, assessment, offer, and close, across all functions and geographies.
• Partner with the CPO and executive leadership to translate hiring plans and headcount forecasts into actionable recruiting strategies that keep pace with growth.
• Build and continuously improve a scalable talent acquisition function, including process, playbooks, and infrastructure that support efficient, high-quality hiring at scale.
• Establish and track recruiting KPIs, time-to-fill, quality-of-hire, pipeline health, offer acceptance, and source effectiveness, and report accurately to leadership and the board as needed.
• Own the full-cycle recruiting process end to end, from workforce planning and intake through sourcing, assessment, offer, and close, across all functions and geographies.
• Partner with the CPO and executive leadership to translate hiring plans and headcount forecasts into actionable recruiting strategies that keep pace with growth.
• Build and continuously improve a scalable talent acquisition function, including process, playbooks, and infrastructure that support efficient, high-quality hiring at scale.
• Establish and track recruiting KPIs, time-to-fill, quality-of-hire, pipeline health, offer acceptance, and source effectiveness, and report accurately to leadership and the board as needed.
End-to-End Recruiting Execution
• Personally lead and run searches for business-critical roles, going beyond basic coordination and acting as a true search partner.
• Develop proactive sourcing strategies to build diverse, high-caliber pipelines, including passive candidate outreach and market mapping.
• Manage a consistent, efficient interview and selection process that moves quickly without compromising on quality or fit.
• Ensure timely, thoughtful communication with candidates at every stage, protecting speed and experience simultaneously.
• Personally lead and run searches for business-critical roles, going beyond basic coordination and acting as a true search partner.
• Develop proactive sourcing strategies to build diverse, high-caliber pipelines, including passive candidate outreach and market mapping.
• Manage a consistent, efficient interview and selection process that moves quickly without compromising on quality or fit.
• Ensure timely, thoughtful communication with candidates at every stage, protecting speed and experience simultaneously.
Leadership & Hiring Manager Partnership
• Serve as a strategic advisor to hiring managers and the executive team, guiding them on market realities, role design, leveling, and compensation in partnership with the People team.
• Coach and enable managers to run effective, structured interviews and make sound, timely hiring decisions.
• Anticipate the needs of teams as they grow and expand, staying ahead of demand rather than reacting to it.
• Align closely with the broader People function surrounding the onboarding hand-off, ensuring a seamless candidate-to-employee transition.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to hiring managers and the executive team, guiding them on market realities, role design, leveling, and compensation in partnership with the People team.
• Coach and enable managers to run effective, structured interviews and make sound, timely hiring decisions.
• Anticipate the needs of teams as they grow and expand, staying ahead of demand rather than reacting to it.
• Align closely with the broader People function surrounding the onboarding hand-off, ensuring a seamless candidate-to-employee transition.
Employer Brand & Candidate Experience
• Champion Sapio’s employer brand in the market, positioning the company as an employer of choice within life sciences and scientific software.
• Design a candidate experience that reflects the Sapio brand, personable, respectful, and high touch at every interaction.
• Strive for a hiring experience that leaves every candidate, hired or not, as an advocate for Sapio.
Process, Systems & Efficiency
• Own, administer, and optimize Lever (ATS) as the system of record for all recruiting activity ensuring data integrity, clean pipeline hygiene, and accurate, real-time reporting.
• Continuously improve the recruiting process end to end, identifying bottlenecks and designing workflows, automation, and playbooks that drive speed and efficiency without sacrificing quality.
• Configure and evolve Lever to support the team as it scales building pipelines, stages, templates, and integrations that streamline the hiring workflow.
• Use data and market insight to measure process performance, inform strategy, and drive continuous improvement in time-to-fill, cost, and quality of hire.
• Ensure compliance with employment regulations and consistent, equitable hiring practices across all regions in which Sapio operates.
• Champion Sapio’s employer brand in the market, positioning the company as an employer of choice within life sciences and scientific software.
• Design a candidate experience that reflects the Sapio brand, personable, respectful, and high touch at every interaction.
• Strive for a hiring experience that leaves every candidate, hired or not, as an advocate for Sapio.
Process, Systems & Efficiency
• Own, administer, and optimize Lever (ATS) as the system of record for all recruiting activity ensuring data integrity, clean pipeline hygiene, and accurate, real-time reporting.
• Continuously improve the recruiting process end to end, identifying bottlenecks and designing workflows, automation, and playbooks that drive speed and efficiency without sacrificing quality.
• Configure and evolve Lever to support the team as it scales building pipelines, stages, templates, and integrations that streamline the hiring workflow.
• Use data and market insight to measure process performance, inform strategy, and drive continuous improvement in time-to-fill, cost, and quality of hire.
• Ensure compliance with employment regulations and consistent, equitable hiring practices across all regions in which Sapio operates.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of full-cycle talent acquisition experience in a high-growth environment, including personally managing senior and Director-level searches.
• Prior experience building or scaling a talent acquisition function, ideally within SaaS, or life sciences.
• Hands-on experience administering and optimizing an ATS (Lever strongly preferred).
• Experience recruiting across multiple geographies (US and international, UK/Europe, a plus).
• Experience partnering with executive stakeholders and supporting board- or PE-facing hiring priorities preferred.
• 8+ years of full-cycle talent acquisition experience in a high-growth environment, including personally managing senior and Director-level searches.
• Prior experience building or scaling a talent acquisition function, ideally within SaaS, or life sciences.
• Hands-on experience administering and optimizing an ATS (Lever strongly preferred).
• Experience recruiting across multiple geographies (US and international, UK/Europe, a plus).
• Experience partnering with executive stakeholders and supporting board- or PE-facing hiring priorities preferred.
Required Skills & Abilities
• Strategic and hands-on: able to design the strategy and personally execute the searches that matter most.
• Strong relationship-building and influencing skills with candidates, hiring managers, and executive leaders.
• Excellent organization and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage a high-volume, high complexity req load.
• Data-driven mindset with deep proficiency in Lever or comparable ATS platforms and recruiting analytics.
• A process-improvement orientation — always looking to make the hiring engine faster, cleaner, and more efficient.
• Sound judgment on talent, leveling, and compensation.
• Collaborative, team-oriented approach with a genuine commitment to a great candidate and hiring-manager experience.
• Strong relationship-building and influencing skills with candidates, hiring managers, and executive leaders.
• Excellent organization and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage a high-volume, high complexity req load.
• Data-driven mindset with deep proficiency in Lever or comparable ATS platforms and recruiting analytics.
• A process-improvement orientation — always looking to make the hiring engine faster, cleaner, and more efficient.
• Sound judgment on talent, leveling, and compensation.
• Collaborative, team-oriented approach with a genuine commitment to a great candidate and hiring-manager experience.
Our People
At Sapio Sciences, our people are at the heart of everything we do. Our lab informatics solutions are powered not just by technology, but by a shared commitment to our core values—what we proudly call The Sapio Seven, aka EMBRACE:
- Embrace the future
- Make a difference
- Be true partners
- Remember why we’re here
- Act with empathy
- Commit to transparency
- Excel in quality
These values shape how we work, how we grow, and how we deliver impact for our clients every day.
Reasonable Adjustments
We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments, at any stage across the application, interview & assessment processes then please let us know. We will work with you to support your needs in confidence.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. We intend that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions are based on job-related factors. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applications from all qualified individuals.
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