Tech Talent Acquisition Lead

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Founded in 2019, Pigment is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies globally. Industry leaders like Unilever, Uber, Anthropic, Snowflake or Siemens, use Pigment daily to make more informed decisions and confidently navigate any scenario.

With a team of 700+ across Paris, London, New York, Toronto, San Francisco and Austin, we've raised nearly $400M from top-tier investors and were named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software.

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Tech Talent Acquisition Lead

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