Description
At Freshfields, you'll find more than a career: a place to shape ambition into impact for clients, colleagues, and communities. As a Senior Technology Recruiter, you will lead end-to-end recruitment for senior, specialist, and business-critical technology roles across the firm.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead full-cycle recruitment for senior and specialist technology roles across different geographies and expertise areas, including Engineering, Product Innovation & Management, Architecture, and commercial roles.
- Partner with technology leaders and hiring managers to translate business needs into clear role requirements, target candidate profiles, and market-informed search strategies.
- Build high-quality candidate pipelines through proactive sourcing, networking, and creative approaches to engaging both active and passive talent.
- Provide market insight on talent availability, compensation, competitor activity, location strategy, and candidate expectations to support hiring decisions.
- Manage multiple concurrent searches with strong prioritization, delivery discipline, and clear communication of progress, risks, and next steps.
- Maintain accurate data in the applicant tracking system and provide regular reporting on KPIs.
Key Requirements:
- Strong experience in technology recruitment, ideally as a combination of agency and in-house recruiting in a professional services environment.
- Strong understanding of technology functions, role families, and skillsets, with the ability to assess candidate relevance across technical, commercial, and leadership dimensions.
- Proven track record delivering niche or hard-to-fill technology searches across different levels through direct sourcing and proactive market engagement.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence hiring managers, challenge assumptions, and provide evidence-based advice.
- Highly organised and delivery-focused, with the ability to manage multiple searches with competing priorities while maintaining quality, pace, and attention to detail.
Compensation Range: A reasonable estimate of the current range is $110,000 to $200,000.