Head of Talent Acquisition, Fairmarkit
€142-155k
OTE
€124-135k
BASE
Autonomous sourcing for all spend
Be an early applicant
Autonomous sourcing for all spend
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
€142-155k
OTE
€124-135k
BASE
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable organizations to purchase the goods and services they need in the most efficient way possible.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of recruiting experience in fast-growing tech companies
- 2+ years owning the talent function
- Experience owning or leading global or multi-region recruiting
- Proven success recruiting across technical and GTM roles
- Proven experience in senior-level roles within B2B SaaS, with a strong focus on the EMEA region; exposure to the UAE market is a plus
- Track record of reducing agency dependence and partnering with senior leaders
- Strong recruiting analytics, ATS reporting, and sourcing expertise
- Comfortable using and experimenting with AI tools in recruiting
- Impact-driven, analytical, and biased toward action
- Scrappy, pragmatic, and motivated by ownership over title
- Passionate about building strong teams and a candidate-centric experience
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Head of Talent Acquisition to own and scale recruiting as we grow. This is a hands-on, player–coach role with an opportunity to add strategic value and deliver tangible impact across multiple areas
- You’ll split your time between personally recruiting high-priority roles and owning global Talent Acquisition (TA) strategy, systems, and outcomes - and work closely with leadership. Your goal is to increase hiring velocity, reduce agency reliance, and bring clarity and accountability to recruiting performance
- Talent Strategy & Hands-On Leadership
- Own and execute the global recruiting strategy across technical, GTM, and G&A roles
- Lead the end-to-end candidate lifecycle, from outreach through offer acceptance
- Operate as a player–coach, personally driving priority hires
- Lead and develop a lean, high-performing recruiting team
- Strengthen employer brand presence in priority markets without heavy agency use
- Data-Driven & AI-Enabled Recruiting
- Build and maintain recruiting dashboards to track pipeline health, time-to-fill, cost per hire, and source effectiveness
- Use data to improve forecasting, prioritization, and hiring decisions
- Regularly share insights and progress with executive leadership
- Drive the adoption of AI in recruiting, testing, and scaling tools that improve sourcing, screening, outreach, and reporting—while applying strong judgment around bias and data quality
- Process, Systems & Stakeholder Partnership
- Own recruiting systems, tools, and workflows to deliver a consistent, high-quality candidate experience
- Continuously improve processes to increase efficiency and predictability
- Partner closely with executives and functional leaders on workforce planning, market insights, and compensation guidance
- Serve as the single point of accountability for recruiting outcomes, reducing leadership time spent managing hiring and agencies
- Global Recruiting Focus
- Design and manage recruiting processes for global hiring, with a strong focus on EMEA and UAE markets
- Bring regional market knowledge and networks to roles that have historically required agency support
- Partner with People Ops to ensure compliant, culturally informed hiring practices
Our take
Fairmarkit is an automated sourcing platform that helps enterprises make their procurement of goods and services more efficient and cost-effective. By digitizing the management of a company’s tail spend and simplifying potential customers ’RFPs (Requests For Purchase), Fairmarkit’s mission is to save companies and their employees valuable time on the processes that a computer can do.
Founded in 2017, Fairmarkit still competes with monoliths in the automated sourcing sector such as Oracle and SAP. Despite this, it has carved out a niche in the market by focusing its energy on the tail-end space of business, an area that it deems underdeveloped.
As a comparatively young company in the intelligent sourcing world, Fairmarkit has been boosted by significant successive funding rounds, showcasing the industry confidence in the company and enabling its plans to double its workforce. Alongside this, it's also been recognised on the Forbes' 2025 List of America's Best Startup Employers, the fourth year in a row for the company to do so.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2022
$35.6m
SERIES C
Dec 2020
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $76.6m
Company benefits
- Work flexibility
- Equity
- Paid parental leave
- Home office stipend
- Sabbatical leave
- Summer Fridays & Holiday Hiberation
- 401k Company match
- Mental health & Mindfulness resources
Company HQ
Downtown, Boston, MA
Leadership
Kevin Frechette
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Regional Sales Director at Turbonomic and Account Executive at EMC Corporation. Currently Ambassador at the Sustainable Procurement Pledge.
Viktor Kusch
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously IT Management Director at Biokon. Currently CEO / CTO at KU64 Inc. / Clever IT systems / marketmech.com
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