Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruitment across all departments and markets
• Build a proactive talent pipeline - not just reactive job filling
• Define and enforce hiring standards across all roles and levels
• Partner with department heads to understand hiring needs and success profiles
• Design and improve the interview and assessment process
• Reduce time-to-hire without compromising quality
• Build the employer brand - make 99Tech a destination for top talent
• Own recruitment data - pipeline health, conversion rates, time-to-hire, offer acceptance
• Own and continuously improve the TA system, including ATS, recruitment workflows, and automation
• Leverage AI across sourcing, screening, assessment, and recruitment operations
• Use data and critical thinking to identify hiring issues, challenge assumptions, and improve recruitment decisions
• Lead and develop the recruitment team
• Ensure a strong candidate experience from first contact to offer
• Lead TA projects and initiatives from planning through execution

Requirements

Must-have

• 10+ years in Talent Acquisition, with at least 5 years in a leadership / senior TA role
• Proven experience building or scaling a recruitment function, not just managing existing operations
• Strong track record hiring for technical and product roles
• Proven experience setting up and implementing an ATS from scratch, with hands-on experience across multiple ATS platforms
• Data-driven — uses recruitment metrics to improve processes, hiring outcomes, and forecast hiring needs
• Strong logical thinking and critical thinking, with the ability to challenge requirements and assess hiring quality
• Fast mover — able to identify, engage, and close strong candidates before they go elsewhere
• High standards — knows the difference between filling a seat and hiring the right person
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal

Should-have

• Advanced practical experience applying AI in recruitment, including sourcing, screening, assessment, or recruitment automation
• Experience in a fast-growing technology company with significant hiring volume
• Strong project management skills, with experience driving TA initiatives from planning through execution
• Experience partnering directly with senior Hiring Managers / Department Heads on hiring strategy and requirements

Nice-to-have

• Experience scaling an organization from 100–200 HC to 300+ HC
• Experience building AI-powered hiring workflows or recruitment automation from scratch
• Experience managing and developing a TA / recruitment team
• Experience across multiple markets and functions