Senior Talent Partner

Volta; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus/Commission

Pension contributions

Health benefits

Generous annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

Build AI infra in Europe

Job summary

Volta is seeking a focused embedded RPO recruitment specialist to map the European data centre market and bring top talent to Volta's growth program. You will engage with design, engineering, procurement, construction and project controls leaders to understand needs and identify candidates who have delivered at that level.

You will build and manage a pipeline across hyperscale, colocation, EPC and mission-critical construction, traveling across Europe as required to secure the best talent.

Qualifications

• Strong direct sourcing and headhunting capability.
• Ability to map European data centre talent market.
• Experience finding senior leadership across engineering and construction.

Responsibilities

• Find and engage top data centre delivery talent across Europe.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, procurement, construction and project controls leaders to understand needs.
• Map the market and engage candidates for Volta projects.
• Bring engaged, well-briefed candidates into the process and support them through to offer.
• Keep pipeline data and search reporting accurate.

Skills

Talent mapping

Head hunting

Sourcing

Stakeholder management

Market mapping

Job description

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role sits within WNTD's embedded RPO team at Volta.

The brief is clear: find the best data centre delivery talent globally for Volta.

Volta's delivery organisation designs, builds and commissions the AI factories behind The Utility of Compute. It spans design and engineering, procurement, construction, project controls and commissioning, and it is growing fast. Your focus is finding the people that function needs, working with the leaders who run it to understand exactly what each role requires and bringing them people who have delivered at that level before.

This is a focused search role. Your job is to map the European data centre market, engage the strongest people in it and bring them to Volta, building the pipeline ahead of the projects that follow.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Find and engage the best data centre delivery talent across Europe for Volta
• Work with design, engineering, procurement, construction and project controls leaders to understand their priorities and what good looks like for each role
• Map the European market and directly engage the strongest people in hyperscale, colocation, EPC and mission-critical construction, bringing them into conversations they would not have found on their own
• Bring engaged, well-briefed candidates into the process and support them through to offer
• Keep pipeline data and search reporting accurate so leaders always know where each role stands

WHAT YOU BRING

• A good understanding of the data centre development and construction lifecycle
• Strong direct sourcing, headhunting and talent mapping capability, and the ability to turn a complex technical brief into a targeted search
• A track record of finding and securing specialist and leadership talent across European markets
• Experience working with senior design, engineering and construction leaders
• Confidence running several critical searches across different countries at the same time
• Experience within hyperscale, colocation, EPC, HPC or AI infrastructure would be advantageous
• Flexibility to travel across Europe when required

WHAT WE OFFER

You will join WNTD's specialist embedded RPO team and work at the heart of Volta's European development programme, with direct access to the leaders building it.

• Competitive salary based on the work you will do, not your previous salary
• Performance-related bonus or commission
• Retirement or pension contributions
• Health, wellbeing and insurance benefits
• Generous annual leave
• Flexible working arrangements
• The opportunity to help build a new category of AI infrastructure across Europe

Benefits and employment terms will be provided by WNTD and may vary depending on the country of employment.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

WNTD and Volta are committed to building diverse and inclusive teams. Employment decisions are based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Accessibility

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