Talent Acquisition Lead

Verda; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Verda is scaling a European AI cloud and seeks an Engineering Talent Acquisition Lead to build and lead the engineering hiring function. You will own recruitment for senior roles while managing a small team of recruiters and sourcers, shaping strategy, processes, and standards for scale.

You will partner with Engineering leadership to attract, assess, and hire exceptional technical talent across software, AI, infrastructure, and platform teams, fostering a data-driven, high-performance

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience recruiting technical talent in technology environments.
• Proven success hiring senior software engineers, infrastructure engineers, AI researchers, or similar.
• Experience mentoring recruiters while delivering recruitment results.
• Strong sourcing, talent mapping, and market intelligence capabilities.
• Experience partnering with Engineering leaders on hiring strategy and workforce planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead Engineering Talent Acquisition at Verda, defining hiring strategies with engineering leaders and delivering for senior engineering roles.
• Build and coach a small team of recruiters and sourcers, setting priorities and creating a high-performance culture.
• Establish scalable hiring processes, interview frameworks, sourcing strategies, and recruiting metrics to improve quality and speed.
• Advise leaders on talent availability, compensation trends, and market dynamics to stay competitive.

Skills

Technical recruiting

Senior hiring

Mentoring recruiters

Sourcing capabilities

Workforce planning

Stakeholder management

Data-driven recruiting

Team leadership

Market intelligence

Tools

Teamtailor ATS

AI sourcing tools

Job description

At Verda, we're building a fully featured European AI cloud - with everything needed to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models at scale. We are a full-stack AI infrastructure company, meaning we design, operate, and optimize the compute powering modern AI workloads across training and inference. Our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy, helping build a more sustainable AI ecosystem.

About the role

As we continue to scale globally, we're looking for an Engineering Talent Acquisition Lead to build and lead our engineering hiring function. This is a true player-coach role. You'll personally lead hiring for some of Verda's most critical engineering positions while leading a small team of recruiters and sourcers. Alongside delivering on key hires yourself, you'll establish the hiring strategy, processes, and standards that enable the team to scale as the business grows. Working closely with Engineering leadership, you'll shape how we attract, assess, and hire exceptional technical talent across software engineering, AI, infrastructure, networking, security, and platform teams.

Your responsibilities

You will lead Engineering Talent Acquisition at Verda, partnering closely with Engineering leaders to define hiring strategies and deliver exceptional talent. You will personally own recruitment for senior and business-critical engineering roles while building proactive talent pipelines through sourcing, networking, and market mapping. You will lead and develop a small team of recruiters and sourcers, setting priorities, coaching team members, and fostering a high-performance recruiting culture. You will establish scalable hiring processes, interview frameworks, sourcing strategies, and recruiting metrics that improve hiring quality, speed, and candidate experience. You will use market intelligence and hiring data to advise leaders on talent availability, compensation trends, and hiring strategy, helping Verda stay competitive in global technical talent markets.

Your key competencies

• 8+ years of experience recruiting technical talent in a technology environment
• Proven success hiring senior software engineers, infrastructure engineers, AI researchers, or similarly specialized technical talent
• Experience leading or mentoring recruiters while remaining hands-on in recruitment delivery
• Strong sourcing, talent mapping, and market intelligence capabilities
• Experience partnering with Engineering leaders on hiring strategy and workforce planning
• Strong understanding of technical hiring, assessment methodologies, and candidate evaluation
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills
• Data-driven mindset with experience improving recruiting processes and hiring outcomes
• Comfortable building teams, developing people, and operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting within AI, cloud infrastructure, networking, or developer tooling
• Experience scaling engineering organizations internationally
• Experience with Teamtailor or a similar applicant tracking system (ATS)
• Experience using AI tools to improve sourcing and recruiting workflows

Practicalities

• Location: Helsinki, Finland
• Working mode: Hybrid (3 days per week in the office)
• Employment type: Full-time and permanent
• Reporting line: Head of Talent Acquisition