Talent Acquisition Specialist

Dedale Intelligence; Compostela; On-site; PHP 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Dedale Intelligence in Cebu City, Philippines is seeking a Talent Acquisition Specialist to lead full-cycle recruitment across multiple functions and seniority levels. You will proactively source candidates, build long-term pipelines, and partner with Hiring Managers to ensure an excellent candidate experience.

The role emphasizes employer branding, process optimization, and leveraging Ashby ATS to maintain a clean, scalable pipeline.

Qualifications

• 3–4 years of recruitment experience, in-house or via search firms.
• Experience in startup/scale-up or finance-adjacent environments.
• Proven headhunter with outbound sourcing skills.
• Managed 30+ requisitions per year across diverse profiles.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.
• Experience with Ashby or a comparable ATS.

Responsibilities

• Run the full recruitment cycle autonomously: from manager briefing to offer, across all seniority levels and business areas.
• Source proactively and creatively in a competitive talent market: multi-channel outreach, targeted headhunting, and building long-term talent pipelines.
• Be a true partner to Hiring Managers: brief them, challenge their assumptions, train them, and keep them accountable for a great candidate experience.
• Define and deploy the recruitment practices that actually make a difference (process design, scorecards, structured interviews, and tooling).
• Own and grow Dedale's employer brand: LinkedIn, events, content. Make people want to work here!
• Master Ashby, our ATS, to keep the pipeline clean, the data reliable, and the process scalable.

Skills

Head hunting

Outbound recruiting

Candidate experience

English proficiency

Stakeholder management

Tools

Ashby ATS

Job description

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Company: Dedale Intelligence

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Cebu City, Philippines

Job Description - Talent Acquisition Specialist

About Dedale:

Dedale is the differentiating source of strategic intelligence in the technology space.

With a unique team of over 100 full-time research analysts & planners, Dedale leverages a network of over 10 000 market professionals to deliver on the ground strategic intelligence to investors and corporates, with a core focus around North America and Europe.

Our team gathers top talents with diverse and international backgrounds. Our Research & Investment team has the strongest expertise in the ecosystem on B2B Software due diligence, and we are surrounded by a network of mentors including high-profile tech founders and investors.

Our Culture:

Dedale gathers a group of highly talented international individuals (incl. US, Chinese, Filipino, French, Moroccan, Latvian, Lebanese nationalities among others).

The leadership team is composed of experienced investment professionals & management consultants (ex-McKinsey, BCG Project Leaders & managers).

Our advisory board is extremely high profile, including some of the most successful investors worldwide (incl. Managing Partners of the largest PE and Growth Equity funds, and Tech unicorn entrepreneurs).

We seek to develop a dream team of outstanding investment analysts with strong academic and professional achievements and a passion for investing and technology.

Your Opportunity:

Dedale is entering a new chapter of growth, and talent is how we get there.

We need someone who hunts, who challenges, who builds, and who genuinely cares about the candidate experience from first touch to onboarding.

Your Responsibility:

Talent Acquisition (80%)

• Run the full recruitment cycle autonomously: from manager briefing to offer, across all seniority levels and business areas

• Source proactively and creatively in a competitive talent market: multi-channel outreach, targeted headhunting, and building long-term talent pipelines.

• Be a true partner to Hiring Managers: brief them, challenge their assumptions, train them, and keep them also accountable for a great candidate experience.

• Define and deploy the recruitment practices that actually make a difference (process design, scorecards, structured interviews, and tooling)

• Own and grow Dedale's employer brand: LinkedIn, events, content. Make people want to work here!

• Master Ashby, our ATS, to keep the pipeline clean, the data reliable, and the process scalable.

Strategic projects (20%)

• Contribute the execution of strategic HR projects on a global scale, including but not limited to: Global Onboarding, Global Talent Management, Training and Development, Engagement Surveys, and Global Retention initiatives

Your Qualifications:

This job is made for you if:

• You have 3-4 years of recruitment experience, in-house or in a search firm (or you've seen both sides of the table)

• You are comfortable in startup/scale-up or finance-adjacent environments (fast pace, shifting priorities, high expectations)

• You are a genuine headhunter: outbound is your default. You know how to find people who aren't looking.

• You have managed 30+ requisitions per year, independently, across diverse profiles.

• As confident convincing a passive candidate as you are pushing back on an unrealistic hiring brief.

• You are reliable by default: candidates always get a response, managers always get an update, the pipeline is always clean.

• You have experience with Ashby or a comparable ATS.

• You are fluent in English (written and spoken)

What’s in it for you

• High autonomy and direct impact from day one

• A collaborative, intellectually stimulating and international environment

• A clear career path developed together with you

• Flexible working arrangements

Recruitment process:

• First interview with our Talent Acquisition Specialist

• Pre-case interview with our Head of HR

• Take-home case study and debrief interview

• Final interview with our Leadership team and coffee chat with our TA Specialist