We are seeking a highly experienced and genuinely strategic Principal Technical Recruiter to join our team in Kraków, Poland. This is a critical, high-impact role that goes beyond transactional hiring. You will act as a true business partner, leveraging your deep expertise to influence and drive our talent acquisition strategy within the technology sector and wider business operations.
We are looking for a professional with the gravitas and proven ability to operate at a senior level, ideally bringing a background in international or global recruitment environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Business Partnership: Embed yourself within the leadership and hiring teams in Kraków to understand the long-term goals, workforce planning needs, and culture. Proactively influence hiring strategies rather than simply fulfilling requests.
- Full-Cycle Recruitment: Lead and execute complex, senior-level and niche searches across various technical domains, managing the entire recruitment lifecycle from initial brief to offer negotiation and closing.
- Global Sourcing & Market Expertise: Utilise your knowledge of global or multi-market talent pools to identify, engage, and attract top-tier candidates, specifically focusing on building pipelines for critical roles.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain credible, trust‑based relationships with senior business leaders. You must possess exceptionally strong stakeholder management skills to align recruitment outcomes with business priorities.
- Process Excellence & Innovation: Continuously evaluate and refine recruitment processes, ensuring a world‑class candidate and hiring manager experience. Introduce innovative sourcing and recruitment methodologies.
- Mentorship & Guidance: Act as a subject matter expert and mentor to other recruiters and team members, sharing best practices in senior-level search and strategic partnership.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Senior or Principal-level Recruiter in a fast-paced, complex organisation.
- A track record of success operating in an international or global recruitment capacity, demonstrating experience beyond a single domestic market.
- Demonstrable experience of being a genuinely strategic business partner, capable of influencing and advising business leaders on talent strategy.
- Exceptional gravitas and communication skills, enabling effective engagement with senior executives and high‑calibre candidates.
- Willingness to commit to a regular office presence (at least once per week) in our Kraków location to facilitate effective business partnership.
- Fluency in English (written and spoken) is essential.
Nice to Have
- Direct experience recruiting for IT/Technology roles. While not essential, it would be a significant advantage.
- Experience establishing or scaling recruitment functions/strategies in a new region.
What We Offer
- A competitive salary, performance bonus and benefits package.
- A position within a professional, caring, and collaborative international team.
- The chance to be deeply integrated into the clients business, where you are considered a true part of their high‑impact Talent team.
- A dynamic, strategic recruiter role with significant exposure to international recruitment across multiple European countries.
- A high‑autonomy environment where you have the freedom to take initiative and make a real impact on our clients talent pipeline.
What next?
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About Randstad
Randstad Enterprise is known across the globe for its reputation and success in strategic talent acquisition, recruitment and talent management solutions. It includes Randstad Sourceright, Randstad Risesmart and Randstad Enterprise Group.
We are an inclusive employer and should you require any reasonable adjustments in order to complete any aspect of the recruitment process, please contact the Internal Talent Acquisition (ITA) team.
