• Own end-to-end recruitment for priority and mission-critical roles across European markets.
• Build proactive talent pipelines through direct sourcing, market mapping, referrals, targeted outreach, and other strategic sourcing methods.
• Partner closely with hiring managers and senior leaders to understand hiring priorities and translate business needs into effective search strategies.
• Define role outcomes, competencies, candidate scorecards, and structured interview processes.
• Assess candidates rigorously and provide clear, evidence-based recommendations to hiring stakeholders.
• Manage the complete candidate journey from initial conversation through offer, negotiation, and close.
• Use recruiting data and market intelligence to identify opportunities to improve pipeline quality, conversion rates, and hiring outcomes.
• Lead senior and confidential searches when required.
• Advise stakeholders on talent availability, market conditions, candidate expectations, and sourcing strategies.
• Contribute to improving recruitment processes, tools, methodologies, and ways of working as the organization scales.

Requirements:

• Strong end-to-end recruitment experience, including personally sourcing, assessing, and closing hard-to-find talent.
• Experience recruiting within complex, fast-moving, or highly competitive environments.
• Proven track record in proactive sourcing, talent mapping, and building high-quality candidate pipelines.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to advise, influence, and challenge hiring managers and senior leaders when appropriate.
• Experience using structured, evidence-based interviewing and candidate assessment methodologies.
• Strong candidate management, negotiation, and closing skills.
• Data-driven approach to recruitment, pipeline management, and hiring performance.
• High level of ownership, sound judgment, and ability to make effective decisions independently.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, changing priorities, and a high degree of autonomy.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience recruiting across multiple European markets is a plus.
• Experience within defence, aerospace, autonomy, robotics, deep tech, or another highly technical industry is a plus.
• Familiarity with WHO methodology, MOCs, scorecards, or comparable structured hiring frameworks is a plus.

Benefits:

• Full-time employment.
• Fully remote work within Europe.
• Opportunity to have significant influence on recruitment strategy and organizational growth.
• Direct partnership with hiring managers and senior leadership.
• High degree of autonomy and ownership over mission-critical searches.
• Opportunity to shape recruitment processes, tools, and structured hiring practices.
• Exposure to highly competitive talent markets across Europe.
• Opportunity to work on senior, confidential, and strategically important searches.
• Fast-paced environment with significant room to make an impact as the organization scales.