Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, Tech

Overview

At Verda, we are building a European AI cloud to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models at scale.

We design, operate, and optimize compute powering modern AI workloads across training and inference.

Our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy, contributing to a sustainable AI ecosystem.

We are looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to help build the teams that will define Verda's future.

This is a highly strategic, hands-on role where you will partner closely with hiring managers and leadership to attract exceptional talent across engineering, product, go-to-market, and corporate functions.

You will own complex, business-critical hiring processes and help shape how we hire as we scale internationally.

You will combine operational excellence with market insight, acting as a trusted advisor to hiring managers while continuously improving our hiring practices, candidate experience, and employer brand.

Responsibilities

• You will own end-to-end recruitment processes for business-critical and often hard-to-fill roles, ensuring an exceptional experience for both candidates and hiring teams.
• You will partner closely with hiring managers to define hiring strategies, calibrate candidate profiles, and make informed hiring decisions based on data and market insights.
• You will proactively build talent pipelines through sourcing, networking, and market mapping, ensuring access to exceptional talent before hiring demand arises.
• You will act as a trusted advisor throughout the hiring process, providing guidance on interview design, assessment, compensation benchmarking, and talent market dynamics.
• You will contribute to the continuous improvement of Verda\'s recruitment function by refining hiring processes, interview frameworks, recruiting metrics, and employer branding initiatives.
• You will represent Verda in the talent market, building relationships with candidates and positioning us as an employer of choice within the AI and cloud infrastructure ecosystem.
• Key Competencies
• Strong experience in Talent Acquisition, ideally within a technology or scale-up environment
• Proven experience hiring for technical and business-critical roles across multiple functions
• Strong experience partnering with senior hiring managers and business leaders
• Excellent sourcing and talent mapping capabilities, including experience engaging passive candidates
• Strong understanding of technology hiring markets and recruitment best practices
• Experience managing complex recruitment processes from strategy through offer
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Data-driven mindset with experience using recruiting metrics to improve hiring outcomes
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple high-priority searches simultaneously
• Comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Nice to have
• Experience hiring internationally across multiple markets
• Experience recruiting for AI, cloud infrastructure, engineering, or product organizations
• Experience working with Greenhouse or similar ATS platforms
• Experience using AI tools to improve sourcing, candidate engagement, and recruitment workflows
• Experience contributing to employer branding initiatives
• Practicalities
• Location: Helsinki, Finland or London, United Kingdom
• Working mode: Hybrid (4 days per week in the office)
• Employment type: Full-time and permanent
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