Head of Recruitment / Lead Recruiter

Data Science UA is a service company with deep expertise in AI and Data Science. Our story started in 2016 with the first Data Science UA Conference in Kyiv, and since then, we've built one of the largest AI communities in Europe.

About the Role:
We are looking for a Head of Recruitment to the our client’s team.

We are looking for someone who has industrialized recruitment before - built the process, the sourcing engine and the metrics — and who moves quickly. The hiring volume ahead is significant: commercial teams are scaling, new departments are being formed and several first-line leadership roles are open.

Responsibilities:
- Design the end-to-end hiring process: requisition, role profile, funnel, assessment stages, decision, offer, start.
- Agree service levels with hiring managers and hold both sides to them.
- Build and lead the recruitment team, structured by hiring type.
- Implement and embed an applicant tracking system as the single source of truth.
- Volume hiring: branch and operations staff, contact centre agents, commercial roles.
- Leadership and specialist hiring: team leads, department heads, business line directors, scarce expert roles.
- Build the sourcing engine: direct search, referral programme, agency management, regional and international pipelines.
- Personally run first-line leadership searches.
- Own the hiring metrics: time to fill, stage conversion, cost per hire, probation pass rate, quality of hire.
- Enable hiring managers: role profiles, structured interviews, assessment criteria, interview training.
- Candidate experience and feedback discipline.
- Employer brand, jointly with HR and marketing.

Requirements:
Must have:
- 7+ years in recruitment, including 3+ years leading a recruitment team.
- Built or fundamentally rebuilt a recruitment function — process, tooling, metrics and team.
- Both volume and leadership hiring in the same role. These are different disciplines and this position requires both.
- Implemented an applicant tracking system and built hiring reporting on top of it.
- Track record of shortening time to fill with evidence — before and after numbers.
- Strong hiring manager management: setting requirements, running calibration, pushing back on scope creep.
- Working knowledge of the Ukrainian labour market, including regions.
- Working English.

Nice to have:
- Hiring in financial services or a retail branch network
- International hiring for new markets
- Built a referral programme that produced measurable volume
- Experience with modern sourcing tooling and automation

What offers:
- A function to build rather than inherit
- Significant and growing hiring volume across all levels
- Budget for tooling and team
- Direct influence on the group's growth plans