Talent Acquisition Specialist

Hiya; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Medical Insurance

Retirement Plan

Vacation

Parental Leave

Commuter Benefits

Disability & Life Insurance

Learning Budget

Charitable Matching

Job summary

Hiya in London seeks an in-house Senior Recruiter to own talent acquisition across EMEA, spanning GTM and Engineering. You will partner with hiring managers, HR Operations, and onboarding teams in US and Europe to drive end-to-end recruitment from intake to offer.

You will build market maps, pipelines, and competitor intelligence, source directly in markets with no brand pull, and use AI tools to optimize sourcing, screening, and outreach across multiple countries including APAC in later stages.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of in-house recruiting experience across multiple EMEA markets.
• Proven track record of identifying and attracting senior talent in competitive markets.
• Experience recruiting both commercial and technical roles.
• Strategic advisory capability to hiring managers (reframing briefs as needed).
• Active, fluent use of AI tools in recruiting workflow.
• Experience launching recruiting in new countries (multi-country).
• APAC recruiting experience (Japan or Singapore) preferred.
• Knowledge of multi-country employment and EOR implications.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of 8–12 live roles across EMEA end to end (GTM + Engineering).
• Run intake meetings to turn hires' wish lists into defined briefs.
• Source directly and relentlessly; operate with little brand pull.
• Build market maps, talent pools, and competitor intelligence per country.
• Pitch Hiya credibly to senior candidates in new markets.
• Use AI tooling across sourcing, screening, outreach, and reporting.
• Partner with HR Operations and onboarding across US and Europe.

Skills

Talent acquisition

Sourcing

Stakeholder management

AI recruiting tools

ATS familiarity

Tools

Ashby ATS

Job description

• This role owns talent acquisition across EMEA end to end, covering GTM and Engineering hiring in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the Nordics, with APAC to follow as we expand
• It is the first permanent in-house recruiting hire in the region, replacing a contractor model that gave us capacity but no continuity
• You will partner daily with hiring managers across EMEA, with HR Operations and onboarding in the US and Europe, and with EMEA sales and engineering leadership
• Own a portfolio of 8 to 12 live roles across EMEA end to end, spanning GTM (Account Directors, Account Executives, SDRs, Customer Success) and Engineering, from intake through to offer and handover
• Run intake meetings that turn a vague hiring manager wish list into a defined, sourceable brief, and push back when the brief and the market do not match
• Source directly and relentlessly. Most of our best hires will not apply to us, and there is no brand pull to fall back on
• Build and hold the market maps, talent pools and competitor intelligence for the countries we hire in, so knowledge compounds inside Hiya rather than leaving with a contract
• Pitch Hiya credibly to senior candidates in markets where we have no name recognition, and turn scepticism into genuine interest
• Use AI tooling across the whole workflow, from sourcing and research through screening, outreach and reporting, and keep improving how you do it as the tools change
• Partner with HR Operations and onboarding across the US and Europe, setting candidate expectations early on the realities of multi-country employment including EOR, so offers do not fall over at contract stage

Benefits

• Stock Options
• 100% Covered Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401K Program
• Vacation Package
• Paid Parental Leave
• Commuter Benefits
• Employer Covered Long-term Disability and Life Insurance
• Employee Learning and Development Budget
• Charitable Matching

5+ years of in-house recruiting experience, with hands-on hiring across multiple EMEA countries rather than the UK alone. Agency background is welcome, but you must have owned processes in-house, and be ready to name the countries, the volume and what each market taught youA demonstrated track record of identifying and attracting senior talent in a competitive market for a company with no brand recognition. This is the single most important requirement and we will test it liveA genuine all-rounder: you have recruited both commercial and technical roles, and you can hold your own with an engineering hiring managerProven ability to operate as a strategic advisor to hiring managers, including reframing or challenging a brief that will not workActive, fluent use of AI tools in your day-to-day recruiting work, alongside a modern recruiting stack. You will be asked to demonstrate this live, using your own tools, during the processDrive, resilience and real comfort with ambiguity. In practice: sustaining high-quality outbound when response rates are low, staying credible with a hiring manager after a pipeline stalls, and going back to a market that has already rejected you with a better approachExperience being the first, or one of the first, recruiters in a new country for a companyRecruiting experience in APAC, particularly Japan or Singapore along with UK+EuropeWorking knowledge of Ashby, or strong experience with a comparable modern ATSAdditional European languages, particularly German, French or SpanishExperience hiring into markets via an Employer of Record