Senior Talent Partner – Product & Design

Overview

In this role you will act as a strategic talent partner to senior Product & Design leaders, shaping teams and talent strategies. You will own complex searches end-to-end for senior and high-impact hires, building long-term relationships with exceptional talent. You’ll translate product roadmaps into hiring plans and influence workforce decisions with market intelligence. You’ll raise the bar on recruiting quality and candidate experience, partnering across Engineering and other areas as priorities evolve. This is a high-visibility role at Fresha, a fast-growing AI-powered platform for beauty and wellness.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic talent partner to senior Product and Design leaders, understanding their roadmaps and future capability needs.
• Build long-term relationships with senior Product and Design talent, focusing on hard-to-hire profiles.
• Develop proactive talent-mapping, sourcing, and engagement strategies for current and future needs.
• Understand target companies, structures, compensation trends, and emerging expertise.
• Influence workforce planning and hiring priorities using market intelligence.
• Challenge hiring leaders on requirements, candidate quality, and market realities.
• Lead complex, senior searches from scoping to offer close; set high standards for recruiting quality.
• Partner with leaders to define exceptional performance and rigorous assessment processes.
• Create personalized engagement strategies for passive candidates and deliver strong candidate experiences.
• Identify improvements in recruiting processes, tools, and efficiency across the Talent function.
• Share market knowledge and best practices with other Talent Partners to raise team capability.
• Support hiring across Engineering and other critical areas when needed.

Key requirements

• Significant experience recruiting Product and Design talent in high-growth tech
• Track record of delivering senior, complex, hard-to-fill searches
• Deep knowledge of Product and Design talent landscape and organizational models
• Evidence of building long-term relationships with passive candidates
• Experience advising senior executives as a credible talent partner
• Strong judgement on talent quality and ability to raise the bar
• Exceptional sourcing, networking, research, and talent-mapping capabilities
• Ability to translate business strategy to practical hiring strategies
• Strong influencing and stakeholder-management skills with senior stakeholders
• Proactive, ownership-driven approach to move complex searches forward
• Excellent communication and credible representation with senior candidates
• Genuine interest in Product, Design, technology and team building

• Relationship-building
• Commercial acumen
• Influencing and stakeholder management
• Executive search
• Talent-mapping
• Sourcing and networking

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