SmartRecruiters
Talent Acquisition Partner (R&D)
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Job Description
- Req#: REF1914Z
- Own full‑cycle recruitment for R&D roles - from intake to offer - balancing pace, quality, and an exceptional candidate experience
- Hands‑on, proactive sourcing across channels: direct search, boolean, talent mapping, communities, referrals, and creative engagement
- Consultative partnership with Engineering hiring teams: align on success profiles, calibrate interviews, advise on market signals, and recommend next steps
- Maintain a strong, structured hiring bar: apply inclusive, consistent evaluation and keep interview teams aligned to role requirements
- Data‑driven updates on pipeline health, velocity, bottlenecks, and conversion metrics - holding yourself and hiring teams accountable to agreed targets
- Orchestrate a seamless candidate journey from first touch through offer and handover to onboarding team
- Contribute visibly to our talent brand by representing our engineering culture and EVP in every interaction
- 3–5+ years of full‑cycle recruiting experience for R&D roles (e.g., Software Engineering, DevOps, SRE, QA, Platform, Engineering Management, Product Management, Product Design)
- Proven success hiring in high‑growth tech environments (ideally SaaS or product‑led), delivering against time‑to‑fill and quality expectations
- Ability to run multiple technical pipelines in parallel without compromising candidate quality or stakeholder partnership
- Strong understanding of software engineering roles, terminology, and org structures — enabling credible conversations and informed guidance.
- Advanced sourcing capability: boolean search, outbound engagement, talent mapping, and market research/insights
- A consultative, partner‑first approach - able to influence through clear reasoning, evidence, and consistent follow‑through
- Experience running structured, inclusive, high‑quality hiring processes end‑to‑end
- Fluency with ATS tools (SmartRecruiters highly preferred)
- Experience working across time zones in global, distributed organizations
- Familiarity with AI‑enabled sourcing, screening, and scheduling tools; comfort piloting new features and providing feedback
- Exposure to recruiting for multiple R&D sub‑domains (e.g., Platform/Infra, Data/ML, Security)
Company Description
SmartRecruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters, an SAP company, delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonald's, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, SmartRecruiters and SAP are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining cutting-edge AI innovation with the scale, reach, and resources of SAP’s ecosystem.
At SmartRecruiters, we are a values-driven, globally focused tech company with strong financial backing and a bold vision for the future of work. We commit and dig deep, embracing challenges with grit, curiosity, and a drive for excellence. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where trust and determination bring us together. Because together, we will win.
Recognized by Fosway Industry Analysts as a strategic leader in recruitment technology for three consecutive years, and awarded by Comparably as a top company for Women, Perks and Benefits, Work-Life Balance, Happiness, Compensation, Diversity, and Culture - we take pride in creating a place where everyone can thrive. Our remote-friendly culture, competitive salaries, and strong internal mobility ensure that high performers have meaningful growth opportunities in an environment built on respect and empowerment.
Job Description
We are opening expressions of interest for future roles as we expand our Talent Acquisition team. If you are an experienced TA professional with a track record of hiring engineering talent in fast‑moving tech environments, we’d love to connect.
As a TA Partner, you will independently run end‑to‑end searches for R&D roles, partner closely with hiring teams, and use data to meet time‑to‑fill and quality goals. You’ll work to clear objectives, apply established hiring practices, and contribute pragmatic improvements that enhance speed, fairness, and candidate experience.
You’ll join a TA team that operates at a high bar, partnered with engaged hiring managers, using modern, AI‑powered recruitment tools. This is a role for someone who wants responsibility, velocity, and meaningful partnership - not just requisition administration.
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Additional Information
SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
About the company
SmartRecruiters’ Talent Acquisition Suite is used by high-performance organizations for making the best hires. It has full functionality for recruitment marketing and collaborative hiring built on a modern cloud platform with an open marketplace for 3rd party recruitment services. Unlike the first generation applicant tracking systems it replaces, SmartRecruiters provides an amazing candidate experience, hiring managers actually want to use the product, and recruiters love us because we make their jobs easier. Companies like Visa, Skechers, Kelly Services, and Equinox use SmartRecruiters to make recruiting a competitive advantage.
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