Talent Acquisition Specialist

VBET; Portugal; Remote; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

VBET is seeking a recruiter who loves precise boolean searches and building partnerships with hiring managers. You will own end-to-end recruitment for mid+ and some executive roles across Europe, Armenia and Brazil, with a focus on efficient, human candidate experiences.

You'll manage around five vacancies at a time, collaborate across countries and time zones, and contribute to employer branding and sourcing strategy. A strong sense of humor helps in a fast-paced, remote-friendly team.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in full-cycle recruitment, ideally with some exposure to mid+/executive search.
• At least 2 years of experience in iGaming or a similar niche.
• Fluent in English (B2-C1), with Ukrainian/Russian as your native language.

Responsibilities

• Full-cycle recruitment from intake call to offer and pre-boarding handoff, mostly for mid+ and some executive-level roles.
• Cross-border hiring across Europe, Armenia and Brazil.
• Ownership of ~5 vacancies at a time with varying complexity.
• Partner with hiring managers to shape hiring strategy and calibrate expectations.
• Room to grow beyond sourcing, including employer branding projects.
• Vacancy mix: ~20% IT and 80% non-IT across Marketing, Risk, Operations, HR, Payments, Customer Support, VIP, and more.

Skills

Full-cycle recruitment

Cross-border hiring

English fluency (B2-C1)

Multi-country coordination

Strong communication

Job description

If you're the kind of recruiter who gets a little too excited about a perfectly written boolean search, or who remembers candidates' dogs' names from three interviews ago — keep reading, this might be your people.

Work format

• Remote
• Ideally based within UTC+0 to UTC+3 to align with the team's working hours

How we work

We're not a "post and pray" kind of team. Our approach is built around genuine partnership with hiring managers:

• We intake like detectives, asking the uncomfortable questions upfront ("what does success actually look like in 90 days?")
• We're not afraid to push back on a job description that doesn't quite add up
• We believe recruitment is 50% process, 50% psychology, and 100% about respecting people's time

Candidate experience matters a lot to us. Ghosting is not in our vocabulary — feedback loops, transparency, and a human tone in every touchpoint is the standard, not the exception.

The team

We're a small but mighty TA team — the kind where everyone knows what everyone else is working on, and asking for help is normal, not a sign of weakness. No lone-wolf recruiting here. We jump on calls to sanity-check a tricky search, share sourcing tricks, and celebrate offers accepted like the small wins they are.

What you'll be doing

• Full-cycle recruitment — from intake call to offer, plus a smooth pre-boarding handoff, mostly for mid+ and some executive-level roles
• Cross-border hiring — candidates and hiring managers across Europe, plus Armenia and Brazil
• Ownership of ~5 vacancies at a time, of varying complexity
• Real partnership with hiring managers — shaping hiring strategy, calibrating expectations, occasionally talking people out of unicorn job specs
• Room to grow beyond sourcing — employer branding projects, hiring manager
• Vacancy mix – roughly 20% IT and 80% non-IT, spanning Marketing, Risk, Operations, HR, Payments, Customer Support, VIP, and more

What success looks like

• Hiring managers trust you as a strategic partner, not just an order-taker
• Candidates — even the ones you reject — walk away with a good impression of us
• You bring structure and speed to searches without sacrificing quality
• You contribute ideas that make our TA function better, not just faster

You might be a great fit if you

• Have solid experience in full-cycle recruitment, ideally with some exposure to mid+/executive search
• Have at least 2 years of experience in iGaming and understand the specifics of this niche
• Are fluent in English (B2-C1), with Ukrainian/Russian as your native language
• Are comfortable working across multiple countries and time zones
• Genuinely enjoy the "people" part of recruitment, not just the logistics
• Can hold your ground with hiring managers when needed, but do it kindly
• Have a sense of humor (we're serious about this one — recruitment is stressful enough)

Hiring process for this role

• Intro call with Head of TA ~30 min
• Final call with CHRO ~30 min
• Team call upon request
• Background check
• Offer

We aim to keep this process to <2 weeks total — because we know your time matters too.