The Role
The Tech Talent Acquisition Lead will oversee the recruitment for Engineering, Product, IT, and Security teams, ensuring an excellent candidate experience and coordination between hiring managers and stakeholders. Responsibilities include managing the recruitment cycle, improving hiring processes, and driving operational excellence.
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Pigment is the AI-powered business planning and performance management platform built for agility and scale. We connect people, data, and processes in one intuitive, feature-rich solution, empowering every team—from Finance to HR—to build, adapt, and align strategic plans in real time.
Founded in 2019, Pigment is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies globally. Industry leaders like Unilever, Snowflake, Siemens, and DPD use Pigment daily to make more informed decisions and confidently navigate any scenario.
With a team of 600+ across Paris, London, New York, Toronto, San Francisco and Austin, we've raised nearly $400M from top-tier investors and were named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software.
At Pigment, we take smart risks, celebrate bold ideas, and challenge the status quo—all while working as one team. If you're driven by innovation and ready to make an impact at scale, we’d love to hear from you.
Tech Talent Acquisition Lead
We’re looking for a Tech Talent Acquisition Lead to lead recruitment across Pigment’s R&D organization, including Engineering, Product, IT, and Security.You will manage a team of three full-time Tech Talent Acquisition Managers, supported by external RPO partners when needed. Your role will be to develop the team, define the Tech recruitment strategy, and act as a trusted partner to R&D leaders.While this is primarily a leadership role, you will remain hands-on by managing selected strategic or complex searches.
What you’ll do
Lead and empower the Tech TA team
We’re looking for a Tech Talent Acquisition Lead to lead recruitment across Pigment’s R&D organization, including Engineering, Product, IT, and Security.You will manage a team of three full-time Tech Talent Acquisition Managers, supported by external RPO partners when needed. Your role will be to develop the team, define the Tech recruitment strategy, and act as a trusted partner to R&D leaders.While this is primarily a leadership role, you will remain hands-on by managing selected strategic or complex searches.
What you’ll do
Lead and empower the Tech TA team
- Manage, coach, and develop a team of three Tech Talent Acquisition Managers
- Create a healthy and collaborative environment built on trust, transparency, and shared accountability
- Leverage the team’s expertise and give each member the autonomy to own their roles, stakeholders, and projects
- Set clear priorities and allocate resources based on the hiring plan, business needs, and team capacity
- Support the team with complex searches, stakeholder challenges, and offer negotiations
Define the Tech recruitment strategy
- Build the recruitment strategy based on Pigment’s workforce plan, hiring priorities, and talent-market conditions
- Translate the hiring plan into a clear roadmap for the team
- Anticipate hiring needs, capacity constraints, risks, and dependencies
- Develop tailored strategies for critical or hard-to-fill roles
- Adjust priorities and approaches based on business changes, market insights, and recruitment data
Partner with R&D leaders
- Act as the main Talent Acquisition partner for R&D leadership and Hiring Managers
- Align stakeholders on hiring priorities, target profiles, assessment criteria, and timelines
- Provide clear visibility into pipeline health, progress, risks, and team capacity
- Use data and market insights to guide decisions, challenge assumptions, and recommend actions
- Coach Hiring Managers and interviewers to improve assessment quality and decision-making
- Help unblock complex situations and maintain efficient hiring processes
Remain hands-on
- Own selected strategic, senior, or complex searches end-to-end
- Proactively identify and engage high-quality candidates
- Build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing strategies
- Support offer negotiations and closing when needed
- Ensure a consistent and high-quality candidate experience
Improve hiring performance
- Track key metrics, including pipeline health, conversion rates, time-to-hire, offer acceptance, and source effectiveness
- Assess progress against the hiring plan and identify areas for improvement
- Improve recruitment processes, workflows, and tools
- Maintain consistent and scalable hiring practices across R&D
- Lead initiatives such as interviewer training, talent mapping, candidate experience, and Tech employer branding
Who you are
- You have strong experience in Tech Talent Acquisition, ideally in a fast-growing and international environment
- You have experience managing/mentoring and developing a Talent Acquisition team
- You know how to create a collaborative environment while giving people autonomy and holding them accountable
- You can translate a hiring plan into a clear recruitment strategy and priorities
- You are comfortable advising, influencing, and challenging senior stakeholders
- You are hands-on and enjoy managing strategic or complex searches
- You are data-driven and use recruitment metrics and market insights to guide decisions
- You bring clarity and structure to complex, fast-changing environments
- You care deeply about hiring quality and candidate experience
What we offer
- Competitive package
- Stock options to ensure you have a stake in Pigment's growth
- The best health insurance with Alan Blue, entirely free for you and your family
- Weekly Lunch and Lunch vouchers (Swile card) to cover your lunch breaks with total flexibility
- Subscription to Egym Wellpass (ex-Gymlib) for full access to gyms, studios, and wellness spaces across France
- A Learning Stipend per year, for you to develop into areas that amplify impact for your careers or personal development
- Remote work stipend to have the best work station possible at home
- Along with one company offsite every year, we have brand new offices at the heart of major cities including New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Paris, and London
- High-end equipment (based on stock/availability) to do your work in the best conditions
We conduct background checks as part of our hiring process, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in the countries where we operate. This may include verification of employment history, education, and, where legally permitted, criminal records. Any checks will be conducted lawfully prior to formal employment contracts being signed, with candidate consent, and information will be treated confidentially.
Pigment is an equal opportunity employer. We believe diversity is a strength and fosters innovation. We are committed to enabling everyone to feel included and valued at the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, family, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, social origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We may process your personal data in accordance with our HR Data Protection Notice.
Skills Required
- Experience in Tech Talent Acquisition
- Strong exposure to Engineering hiring
- Hands-on and execution-driven
- Strong organizational and coordination skills
- Fluent in French & English
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The Company
What We Do
In a world moving at an incredibly fast pace, businesses have grown accustomed to change. Transforming their business model, pivoting their strategy, rethinking their go-to-market, the list goes on. To enable these changes, they have also had to rethink the way they work. Breaking down silos isn’t a best practice anymore. It’s a given. And yet, when it comes to planning, little has changed. In fact, planning tools work the exact opposite way, reinforcing data and people silos, and preventing teams from working together toward their common goals. As a result, planning is usually seen as a dreadful process. But the truth is, planning drives strategy. It’s high time we serve it with the right tools. Pigment is the business planning platform for fast-growing companies. Our mission is to help companies make better, faster decisions in a changing world, and drive revenue growth. At Pigment we believe that: ✅ Real-time data informs better outcomes. Trim your sail, and make the best use of current winds. ✅ Reporting should be accurate, quick, and insightful. ✅ Planning should be simple, smooth, and delightful. ✅ Less time should be spent on data crunching, more time on bringing insights to the business. ✅ Collaboration should be at the heart of any planning process, so your organization works as one. Book your demo today ? https://www.gopigment.com/contact We’re hiring! Check out our offers: https://jobs.lever.co/pigment
