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Executive Search Lead - Technology

Posted: 12 Oct 2026

Apply by: 19 Oct 2026

6 days left to apply

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Location: EMEA - Home based

The role entails
  • Developing a search strategy for our business, ensuring processes enable headhunted talent to move smoothly through the pipeline.
  • Coaching our senior leadership teams to drive hiring outcomes, enabling them to become expert at approaching and attracting exceptional talent for their management and leadership positions.
  • Driving talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, using SQL or Python to identify trends in data.
  • Conducting in-depth behavioural talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours.
  • Building key relationships with global stakeholders to ensure we deliver against our hiring agenda, closely monitoring hiring activities, driving results and ensuring that there is consistency in our operational processes
  • Seeking continuous improvement on hiring processes and outcomes.
  • Bringing a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this.
What we are looking for in you
  • Professional experience of headhunting from a reputable executive search firm or in-house search function, with an informed opinion of strategies and experience of successfully sourcing senior talent in the Technology industry.
  • Exposure or appreciation of psychometric assessments.
  • Strong analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns from data using SQL or Python, with proficiency in LinkedIn talent modules..
  • Experience of conducting behavioural, competency based interviews with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview.
  • An exceptional academic background including a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology or people based subject and a good level of Maths from High School.
  • A high level of personal organisation to work remotely and be effective.
  • Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each.
Other skills you may bring
  • Experience of more advanced analytical and statistical analysis to interrogate data.
  • Exposure to the following tools: Greenhouse ATS, Thomas International and DISC profiling.
  • Psychometric validity and reliability metrics.


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