The Big Search

About The Big Search

The Big Search is a global talent advisory firm partnering with the world’s leading investors and technology companies shaping our future.

 

We’re a consulting organisation helping founders scale great companies, and we’re a technology company building the operating system for independent search consultants called Navis. In 2 of the 3 last years we’ve grown by 100-150% yoy (the other one was COVID 2020) and are aiming for similar numbers in the coming years. It’s a pretty fun ride!

 

We're about 170 FTE strong across Europe with big global plans. We have been working with companies such as Accel Partners, Northzone, Lego Ventures, Gorillas, Booking.com, Vinted, Revolut, HelloFresh... (you can view more here: https://www.thebigsearch.com). We're growing fast and we are looking for new colleagues to join our company.

 

Our team started in Amsterdam but has grown to London, Berlin, Skopje and Budapest – and that’s just the beginning. In 2022 we’re launching in Latin America, France, and the Nordics. We’re looking for the sharpest minds in the talent space to join our mission. As a company that values openness, we’ll say now that we motivate our employees to go further than they’ve ever gone before and along the way, there are rewards, excitement, new opportunities, fellowship and growth.

The Role

As a member of the Embedded Talent Acquisition (ETA) department, you will be working on projects for the best high-growth tech companies across Europe. Together with your team of Talent Acquisition Partners, Analysts and Talent Operations specialists, you will have the opportunity to impact our clients' growth, building out and scaling entire teams, department and offices. Your work will empower them to make a difference in the world.

As Talent Lead, you will be responsible for setting up, overseeing (and, where needed, stepping in to get your hands dirty in hiring) for our Embedded Talent Acquisition (ETA) projects, leading and developing your own team of Talent Acquisition partners, Analysts and Talent Operations specialists. You will be acting as a strategic partner to the clients, ensuring the project is running smoothly and goals are met.

Critical for this role is deep understanding of best-in-class recruitment processes, a consultative mindset and bottom-up leadership style.

All Talent Leads are supported by an organization that only has one focus: improving the way we operate so that clients and candidates enjoy a better experience. This includes the People team, Ops & Sales Ops, BI, and of course Product & Engineering. Talent Leads collaborate closely with the leads of these functions to ensure their teams have everything they need and to feed back the voice of our customers and candidates.

You will:

• Lead Embedded Talent Acquisition projects and act as Interim Head of Talent Acquisition/Recruitment Manager for our clients and work with your team of TAP's and coordinators to successfully execute on them.
• Set up hiring plans, goals and KPI's for your team that will allow you to deliver the results and keep projects on track
• Be an advisor to project stakeholders and HR/People leaders and build long-lasting relationships with them. Work with them to set the project up for success and manage expectations
• Lead and grow your team of Talent Acquisition Partners and Talent Operations through coaching, mentoring and performance management
  
  
  

You have:

• Deep understanding of best-in-class recruitment processes.
• Experience in hiring and scaling tech, product, or commercial teams either in-house or in agency
• Experience and love for working in a high-paced, high-growth environment.
• Experience in leading a team (3-6 people). Experience in leading remote teams is a plus.
• Ability to teach and mentor your team members
• Knowledge and network in the tech and VC industry is a +

You can be based in any of our current office locations: Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Skopje or Budapest.

What We Offer

• We are incredibly mission-driven, focusing on supporting companies that are solving hard problems and shape our future in a positive way
• Rock-solid culture that’s built on our first and most important value: People
• Join a world-class team. Our people come from tier 1 talent consultancies as well as some of the world’s top technology organisations
• Be part of building what the future of talent consulting will look like. There’s a tremendous opportunity to capture
• We pay our people at the top of the market
• Plenty of autonomy and freedom and space for you to do your thing – we never micromanage
• A global, diverse, international team and culture. We celebrate differences in every aspect. The more ways to look at a problem to solve it the better