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Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

On-site in Lisbon·Full-time·Added yesterday (last checked 29 Oct)

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ambi.

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Our summary

Salary: €70,000 - €80,000 a year
Work mode: On-site, Lisbon
Contract: Full-time
Experience: Senior level

Skills

Requirements

Nice to have

Background at a top executive search firm or high-quality recruitment boutique
Experience in both agency and in-house settings
Exposure to hiring in tech, fintech or investment
Experience hiring across multiple countries
Experience building or improving recruiting processes

The role

You'll own senior hiring across the group, around 10-15 senior hires per year in tech, investment and operations. You'll report to the Head of HR and work directly with the founders and the COO.

This is not a role about running an existing system. You'll build the hiring engine from scratch and have a real say in who joins the company.

Your experience is mostly high-volume recruiting
You rely mainly on inbound applications or agencies
You haven't owned a hiring process end to end

What you'll do

Build market maps for each role and identify the best passive candidates
Run the full cycle: sourcing, outreach, interviews, offer and closing
Challenge hiring managers when a brief doesn't hold up, and help them sharpen it
Handle offer negotiations, counter-offers and candidate hesitation
Run several senior searches in parallel
Reduce the company's dependence on external agencies

What our client is looking for

Proven experience running senior searches (Director / Head-level) from zero pipeline to signed offer
Strong direct sourcing skills. You find people, you don't wait for them to apply
A track record of specific senior hires you closed personally, and you can walk through them in detail
Confidence with stakeholders. You push back when needed and keep the process moving
Solid closing skills, including counter-offers

Success looks like

First 3 months: you own active roles, have built pipelines through direct sourcing and delivered your first shortlists
By month 6: 2-3 senior hires closed end to end
By month 12: you fully own senior hiring across the group and are a trusted partner to leadership

Hiring process

Interview with the Head of HR
Interview with a Senior TA, including a live sourcing exercise
Online cognitive and behavioural assessment
Final round with the COO plus a case study based on a real past search

About ambi.

ambi. is a recruiting and talent company that helps founders and companies become visible, attract better talent, and hire faster through content, recruiting and career education. The company reports more than 1,000 placements, with hires across the US, EU, UK and Brazil.

It positions itself against traditional headhunting, stating there is "no corporate theatre, no old school headhunters" and that it uses a modern, strategy-led approach with AI where needed. Its offering is organised as an ecosystem of three connected brands, each solving a piece of the hiring problem across attracting, developing and hiring talent.

Industry: Staffing

In their own words

About the company & team

Our client is a fast-growing investment group with teams across technology, investment and operations. Today, most of their senior hiring goes through external headhunters. They want to change that by building a strong internal recruiting capability, and this role is the first step.

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