Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

🏆 What’s the Opportunity?

In this role, you’ll tackle challenges that go beyond traditional recruiting. As a remote-first company, we are constantly innovating to reach globally dispersed talent and create genuine connections throughout the hiring process.

You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping new teams, understanding their impact on the business, and developing hiring strategies that drive team and company growth. Acting as a trusted consultant and advisor, you’ll provide insights on market trends, share data-driven recommendations, and showcase your expertise in innovative sourcing techniques.

Our People team is small but mighty, with a mission to become a best-in-class team that attracts and nurtures exceptional talent worldwide. From day one, you’ll have the opportunity to bring your expertise, take ownership, and make a meaningful impact.

This is a unique, entrepreneurial opportunity to be driving the digitalization of air freight and logistics in a fast-growing Series B company backed by leading Venture Capital firms including Index and Bessemer.

🌍 You can work from (almost) anywhere in Europe and South Africa. Please check here if the country you are in is on our hiring list. We are a remote company, but regularly meet in person, too.

At cargo.one, we foster a positive, diverse, hard-working and feedback-heavy culture, with a strong dose of playfulness. Join us now and transform the way airlines sell cargo!

🎬 A snapshot of what you will be doing here:

• You will work with senior leadership and hiring managers to architect our hiring strategy and own high-impact searches, shaping the teams that define the future of our company.

• You'll influence hiring decisions at the highest levels and build scalable recruitment processes that fuel our growth. You’ll ensure we hire the right talent at the right time to support our business growth. 

• Acting as a trusted partner to our leadership team and hiring managers, you will ensure you fundamentally understand the business and synthesize that with your subject matter expertise to bring hiring strategies that accelerate team performance and long-term company success.

• Your insights on market trends and talent data will help shape our workforce planning. You own our hiring practices and coach hiring managers on hiring practices and interview techniques as we grow globally, always aiming for best in class. 

• Bringing creativity and innovation to sourcing:  you’ll actively find and attract the best talent with innovative approaches and guide them through an exceptional candidate journey.

• Optimising a remote-first hiring approach that will set industry standards for hiring remotely.

• Building strategic talent pipelines by engaging with universities, industry groups, and communities to proactively attract and retain top talent.

• Leveraging data to drive hiring effectiveness and decisions, including maintaining and monitoring KPIs.

• Driving pre-onboarding processes and beyond, ensuring new hires have a smooth transition into the company.

• Supporting People team projects, streamlining processes, and implementing new tools to enhance hiring efficiency and scalability.

• You will be a key voice in shaping our employer brand and talent positioning, ensuring we attract world-class talent. Your ideas will directly influence how we market ourselves to candidates and retain top performers.

🙋🏽‍♀️ What you’ll need:

• At least 5 years of recruitment experience, ideally in a mix of agency and fast paced in-house recruitment.

• Previous experience in a high growth start-up, scale-up or tech company.

• Experience of having recruited top talent in multiple locations.

• A proactive, independent, and self-motivated approach, with the ability to manage multiple hiring processes at once and deliver exceptional results.

• Growth mindset, high drive and willingness to be scrappy, work with ambiguity and adapt. 

• Confidence and experience in coaching and working with hiring managers at various seniority levels.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, balancing hiring needs with a seamless candidate experience. 

• A data-driven mindset, using insights and hiring metrics to continuously r