Director Talent Acquisition

About the role

We are a global technology company scaling engineering, product, and go-to-market teams across EMEA. We are looking for a Director of Talent Acquisition to own how we find, win, and hire exceptional people at scale. You will build and run a high-performance TA function, covering recruiting, sourcing, employer brand, TA operations, and analytics. You will partner directly with the executive team to turn headcount plans into hires on time, on budget, and at a quality bar that raises the company's talent density. This is an operator role. You will set strategy, but you will also be in the pipeline reviews, closing senior candidates, and fixing what is broken.

Responsibilities

• Strategy: Own the global TA strategy and annual hiring plan, aligned to business goals and workforce planning.
• Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiting managers, recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators across EMEA and the US.
• Executive partnership: Act as a trusted advisor to the C-suite and VPs on hiring forecasts, market intelligence, org design, and compensation positioning.
• Pipeline and delivery: Drive time-to-fill, offer acceptance, quality-of-hire, and pipeline diversity against clear KPIs.
• Sourcing and channels: Build proactive sourcing engines (outbound, referrals, communities, university and early-career programs, agency and RPO partners).
• Senior and leadership hiring: Personally lead or close director-and-above and critical technical searches.
• TA operations and tech: Own the ATS, CRM, sourcing, and AI tooling stack. Automate high-volume work and remove process friction.
• Employer brand: Build the EVP and a presence that wins in the competitive Amsterdam and EU tech market.
• Analytics: Deliver weekly pipeline dashboards and quarterly talent insights to leadership.
• Compliance and mobility: Ensure hiring complies with Dutch and EU labor law, GDPR, and works council requirements, and partner with Legal and Global Mobility on cross-border hires.
• Budget: Manage the TA budget, agency spend, and vendor contracts with a cost-per-hire mindset.
• Inclusion: Embed structured, fair, and inclusive hiring practices.

Requirements

• Technical and executive recruiting across engineering, data, AI/ML, product, and sales
• Workforce and capacity planning
• Stakeholder management at C-suite level
• Data-driven decision making (funnel metrics, forecasting, ROI)
• ATS and recruiting tech expertise (Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, or similar)
• AI-enabled recruiting and workflow automation
• Offer negotiation and compensation strategy
• Employer branding and candidate experience design
• Vendor and agency management
• Team building, coaching, and performance management
• Change management in a high-growth environment