Director, Global Technology Recruiting

Wolters Kluwer; Kingston; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Wolters Kluwer is seeking a Head of Technology Recruitment to define and scale our global talent strategy for engineering, product, data, and security roles. You will lead a distributed team across regions, partnering with executive leadership to align hiring with business objectives.

This high-impact role requires a strategic mindset with hands-on capability, strong analytics, and a focus on diversity, speed, and candidate experience. Onsite collaboration and travel may be required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in recruitment with 5+ years leading global tech recruiting.
• Experience scaling recruitment functions in large, complex organizations.
• Experience hiring for engineering, product, data, infrastructure, and security.
• SaaS or enterprise software background preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management and a data-driven mindset.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the global technology recruitment strategy aligned with growth and workforce planning.
• Lead a global organization of recruitment managers and contributors across regions.
• Report to the VP of Talent Planning, Acquisition and Onboarding with regular updates.
• Own end-to-end hiring for technical roles across engineering, product, data, infrastructure and security.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, HR and Finance to forecast hiring needs.
• Design scalable recruiting processes, frameworks, and best practices.
• Improve time-to-hire, quality of hire, diversity representation, and candidate experience.
• Establish strong employer branding to attract top technical talent globally.
• Leverage data and recruiting technologies to optimize sourcing and decision-making.
• Build and expand global talent pipelines, including passive candidates.
• Ensure consistency and compliance across regions.
• Stay current with market trends in technical hiring and compensation.

Job description

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About The Role

We are seeking a proven strategic, results-driven Head of Technology Recruitment to lead our global Technology Recruitment function. This role will define and execute the hiring strategy for technical talent at scale, supporting dynamic change across multiple regions and business units.

As the Head of Technology Recruitment, you will lead and scale high-performing, globally distributed recruiting teams, ensuring consistent delivery of top-tier engineering and technical talent. You will partner closely with executive leadership, Engineering, Product, and HR to align hiring strategies with business objectives, while continuously improving processes, tools, and employer branding.

This is a high-impact leadership role suited for someone with experience in large-scale, SaaS or enterprise environments, who can operate both strategically and hands-on when required.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the global technology recruitment strategy aligned with company growth goals and workforce planning.
• Lead a substantial global organization of recruitment managers and individual contributors, ensuring alignment, performance, and capability development across all regions.
• Report directly to the VP of Talent Planning, Acquisition and Onboarding, providing regular updates on hiring performance, workforce planning, and strategic initiatives.
• Own end-to-end hiring performance for technical roles, including engineering, product, data, infrastructure, and security.
• Partner with senior stakeholders (Engineering, Product, HR, Finance) to forecast hiring needs and ensure timely, high-quality delivery.
• Design and implement scalable recruiting processes, frameworks, and best practices to support high-volume and specialized hiring.
• Drive continuous improvement in key recruitment metrics such as time-to-hire, quality of hire, diversity representation, and candidate experience.
• Establish strong employer branding strategies to attract top technical talent in competitive global markets.
• Leverage data, analytics, and recruiting technologies to optimize sourcing effectiveness and decision-making, quality and quantity of hires
• Build and expand global talent pipelines, including passive candidate engagement
• Ensure consistency, compliance, and excellence in recruitment practices across regions.
• Stay current with market trends in technical hiring, compensation, talent availability, and competitive intelligence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in recruitment, with at least 5+ years leading global technical recruiting teams.
• Proven track record of building and scaling recruitment functions in large, complex organizations.
• Strong experience hiring for technical roles across engineering, product, and related domains.
• Background in SaaS or enterprise software environments strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to manage distributed teams across multiple geographies and cultures.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to align recruitment strategy to organizational priorities.
• Experience selecting, implementing and optimizing ATS, sourcing tools, and recruitment analytics platforms.
• Data-driven mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management, leadership, and communication skills.
• Fluent English required; additional languages are a plus.

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.