Director, Talent Acquisition, EMEA

Overview

As Director of Talent Acquisition, you will lead and transform TA across your region, embedding AI and turning hiring into a data-driven, insight-led capability. You will partner with senior leadership to build scalable teams, optimize pipelines, and drive smarter hiring decisions through analytics and AI-enabled workflows. You’ll champion governance, regulatory compliance, and cross-functional collaboration while shaping a proactive, market-aware TA function.

Pay / Benefits

• Robust benefits package
• Global career opportunities
• Travel up to 25%
• Diversity & Inclusion initiatives
• Employee wellbeing and governance focus

Responsibilities

• Lead TA for the region, owning delivery and AI adoption as a core operating standard
• Build and scale high-performing TA teams, setting expectations for AI use and data-driven execution
• Drive AI adoption across the TA lifecycle with tools like Workday, Paradox, Metaview, Textio and TalentNeuron
• Develop end-to-end pipeline understanding, including funnel metrics and talent density across markets and roles
• Enable data-driven hiring decisions to influence role building, talent targeting, and strategy
• Shift TA from reactive to proactive hiring with proactive talent pools
• Elevate teams toward Adoptive and Transformative AI proficiency with standardized workflows
• Establish structured workflows across sourcing, outreach, interviews, and candidate management for consistency
• Foster continuous experimentation to test and scale new AI capabilities via managers
• Leverage Metaview Deep Research and TalentNeuron to generate market insights and actionable strategies
• Partner with People & Culture and Diversity & Inclusion to address gaps and improve representation
• Ensure AI practices meet global regulatory, privacy, and compliance standards with governance
• Collaborate across leadership to embed governance and accountability across teams

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years TA experience across in-house and agency environments
• 5+ years leadership experience managing managers and distributed teams
• Proven ability to build, scale, and evolve TA functions or operating models
• Strong experience using technology and data to improve recruiting efficiency
• Experience with talent intelligence platforms (TalentNeuron or Draup) to advise strategy
• Track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving change
• Strong analytical ability to interpret and act on pipeline and talent data
• Deep understanding of global recruitment practices, employment laws, and compliance

• relationship-builder
• inspiring leadership
• cross-functional collaboration
• Workday
• Paradox
• Metaview

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