Talent Acquisition Partner, EMEA

We're hiring a Strategic Talent Acquisition Partner to help power our next phase of growth across EMEA. This is a high-impact, business-critical role at the heart of Shield's AI international expansion-supporting new market entries with strong focus on the Middle East region, building and scaling best-in-class sales and engineering organisations, and partnering with senior leaders to shape our future. This is not a transactional recruiting role. You will operate as a strategic advisor, market expert, and builder-owning how talent enables scale across diverse EMEA markets.

What You'll Do Strategic Talent Partnership

• Partner closely with senior and executive-level stakeholders to understand business objectives, growth plans, and capability gaps.
• Translate market entry and growth plan into scalable, data-driven regional talent acquisition strategies.
• Act as a thought partner and advisor on talent trends, market intelligence, and competitive hiring strategies.
• Advise leaders on market feasibility from a talent perspective (availability, cost, timing, and risk).

Execution with Excellence

• Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for all roles including senior, critical, and hard-to-hire roles.
• Partner to design and execute sourcing strategies that attract high-impact engineering and commercial talent across the EMEA region
• Shape local hiring approaches while maintaining a consistent global hiring bar.

Employer Branding & Talent Attraction

• Act as an EMEA ambassador for our employer brand, ensuring we are positioned as an employer of choice in the region
• Partner with Branding, Comms, and Leadership to shape and localise our employer value proposition for different EMEA countries.
• Identify and activate employer branding opportunities (events, content, communities, referrals, social presence).
• Ensure inclusive, consistent, and authentic candidate experience that reinforces our brand and values at every touchpoint.

Driving at Scale

• Use data to forecast hiring needs, track progress, and continuously optimise our recruitment performance.
• Improve TA processes, tools, and ways of partnering to support speed, quality, and scale.
• Be a visible voice for talent across the EMEA leadership community.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience as a strategic talent acquisition partner driving full cycle hiring for both engineering and go to market talent within the defence space or Public Sector Saas space.
• Demonstrated success supporting new market entries and scaling teams at pace in particular the Middle East region
• Strong credibility working withsenior leaders and executives as a trusted talent advisor and business partner
• Deep understanding of EMEA talent dynamics, sourcing strategies, and competitive intelligence.
• Highly consultative, commercially minded, and comfortable operating with ambiguity.
• Ability to balancestrategic thinking with hands on execution.
• Fluency in Arabic highly desirable

Our international teammates receive a comprehensive total rewards package aligned to your country office location. For full details on compensation and benefits, please consult your talent acquisition partner.