Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KAYAK
9 Month Contract
$50.00 - $57.00 per hour
3 days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
Travel search engine
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Travel search engine
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$50.00 - $57.00 per hour
3 days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including meaningful in-house or client-embedded experience in a global or multi-site environment
- Proficiency in Ashby (our ATS) & LinkedIn Recruiter
- A solid understanding of sourcing strategies and how to run an equitable, structured hiring process
- The ability to manage your own workload and adapt when priorities shift — you're comfortable working independently without a lot of direction
- Clear, thoughtful communication with both candidates and internal teams; you're at ease working across time zones and with distributed colleagues
- Comfort using data to track your work, spot patterns, and improve processes over time
What the job involves
- KAYAK is looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to join our global and collaborative People & Culture team on a 9-month fixed-term contract — a meaningful opportunity to make a real impact on how we grow KAYAK
- You'll be a trusted partner to hiring teams across the business, owning the full recruitment cycle and helping us bring in talented, diverse people across Product, Design, Commercial, Marketing, and Engineering
- Manage full-cycle recruitment from initial intake through offer, with a focus on hiring for Product, Design, Commercial (Sales, Partnerships), Marketing, and Engineering roles — including backfills and incremental headcount
- Build strong working relationships with hiring managers and senior leaders to understand their team's needs and develop recruitment plans that support them
- Serve as a knowledgeable resource on market trends, talent availability, and sourcing strategies — sharing what you know to help teams make informed decisions
- Design structured, role-specific interview plans and scorecards; champion inclusive hiring practices and ensure consistent, equitable evaluation across interview panels
- Build and maintain proactive candidate pipelines for near-term and future hiring needs
- Represent KAYAK authentically to candidates, delivering an outstanding experience at every stage of the process
- Collaborate closely with your TA teammates across time zones, contributing to a team culture built on trust, flexibility, and shared success
Application process
- This contract will start in July 2026 and continue through April 2027
Our take
KAYAK is a travel agency and metasearch engine owned and operated by Booking Holdings. KAYAK processes over 6 billion queries across its platforms each year for travel information - as one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travellers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. It offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast.
There’s been speculation over the years about online travel companies getting into the hotel business, and KAYAK is no exception. The company is expanding its hospitality offerings beyond its traditional hotel referral and booking services, but despite speculation through the 2020s, has stopped short of opening hotels under its own brand, preferring to partner with preexisting companies on their hotel tech.
Since being acquired by Booking Holdings, the global leader in online travel, in 2013, KAYAK has continued to expand and innovate, enhancing the travel experience for users all around the world. And now KAYAK manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. With the aim to make it easier for everyone to experience the world - it now operates sites in more than 70 countries and territories.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Work flexibly: Our global flexible work policy lets our teams decide if they head into one of our offices or work from anywhere else
- Team-wide time off: Most of our team disconnects at the same time each year to recharge and reconnect
- Global volunteer week: Take VTO (Volunteer Time Off) to support the organizations and charitable efforts you believe in
- Wellness: We take care of each other - providing opportunities and spaces to live that work-life balance
- Resource groups: Our five ERGs are employee-led groups for underrepresented communities and their allies
- Career growth: We provide opportunities for our team to develop their skills – or learn new ones – on their own terms
Company HQ
East Side of Stamford, Stamford, CT
Leadership
Steve Hafner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Board Member of Trulia, Blade and SeatGeek and currently an Executive at OpenTable.
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