Talent Acquisition Manager
Join Kolsquare to drive strategic hiring across Europe! Own end‑to‑end recruitment, shape employer brand, and partner with leaders to build diverse, future‑ready teams in a fast‑growing SaaS scale-up.
ABOUT KOLSQUARE
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Kolsquare is the #1 Influencer Marketing software solution in Europe, used by marketing professionals for managing KOL Marketing campaigns (K.O.L for Key Opinion Leaders, aka Influencers), and designed to optimize brand communication strategies in response to new digital challenges.
Using our technology, professionals can identify the best KOL profiles, fully manage their KOL Marketing campaigns and measure their results and performances.
Kolsquare offers hundreds of customers (Coca-Cola, Danone, Publicis, Orange, Sézane, Decathlon, etc.) the latest Big Data, AI and Machine Learning technologies to activate inspiring and genuine partnerships with over 3M KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders) with more than 5,000 followers in 180 countries on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter (now X), Facebook, Snap and YouTube.
In 2024, Kolsquare joined the team.blue group, one of the largest private tech companies in Europe, with a culture of innovation and excellence, to further fuel its impressive track record of outstanding profitable growth.
KOLSQUARE MISSION
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Kolsquare is a Benefit Company, certified B-Corp in 2024.
Kolsquare exists to help you reach your greatest potential. And positively impact the world.
Influencer Marketing is today described as a revolution, a 30B$ market that is a major transformation in the media and digital world. It has also become a real gold mine, creating high hopes but also bringing its share of myths and legends. Everyone knows it works and can have an amazing impact on brand awareness or customer acquisition, but not everyone knows exactly how to do it. At Kolsquare, we firmly believe in this new media and are convinced that it's the best way for ideas, people and organisations to grow and reach their greatest potential. We also believe that it's a great way to create positive impacts for a better world. Our mission is therefore to give everyone access to the power of KOL Marketing.
KOLSQUARE CULTURE & VALUES
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Deliver WOW
Be Responsible in your actions
Pursue Growth & Learning
Be passionate and determined
Share your Power, Knowledge & Wealth
Build Authentic relationships
We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.
📌 More info about culture here in our Culture Book.
YOUR ROLE
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At Kolsquare, people are at the heart of our success!
This role is a newly created position reporting to the VP People.
Within the People team, your role will be to support all Kolsquare teams at the group level in order to recruit our future talent, creating a smooth recruitment experience both for candidates and managers, while strengthening our employer brand and supporting onboarding and new hire experience across the group.
You will act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and HR partners, aligning talent strategies with our business goals. Your focus will be on building a diverse, future-ready talent pipeline while continuously improving sourcing methods, assessment practices, and employer branding. Your expertise in recruitment will be key to driving innovation and excellence in how we attract and retain the best minds.
What will you do?
1. Talent Acquisition
Develop and execute strategic talent acquisition plans using market intelligence, competitive benchmarking, and internal workforce needs to attract top-tier talent.
Lead the end-to-end recruitment process for a wide variety of roles, ensuring a seamless and engaging candidate experience, from role definition, posting and sourcing to technical assessments and offer management;
Partner closely with team.blue HR teams to ensure recruitment processes comply with local entity requirements and internal procedures.
Act as the main point of contact for hiring managers throughout the recruitment process.
Monitor and optimize recruitment KPIs, with a strong focus on time-to-fill, candidate experience, and quality of hire.
Ensure a consistent, structured, and fair recruitment process across all entities. Train and support hiring managers on recruitment best practices, interviews, and decision-making.
Act as a trusted partner to hiring managers, providing guidance on role scoping, seniority, market insights, and hiring strategies.
Challenge and align hiring needs with business priorities and headcount planning.
Coordinate stakeholders across countries and entities to ensure smooth and timely hiring decisions.
Support onboarding coordination and contribute to creating a smooth and consistent new hire experience across entities.
2. Employer Branding
Contribute to the definition and deployment of Kolsquare’s employer branding strategy, in close collaboration with the People team and Marketing/Comms when relevant.
Ensure a consistent and attractive employer value proposition across all entities and countries.
Own and maintain recruitment-related content (career page, job descriptions, recruitment messaging) to ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment with Kolsquare’s culture and values.
Leverage platforms like GitHub, LinkedIn, Welcome to the Jungle, and Stack Overflow to proactively identify and engage high-potential candidates.
Partner with internal stakeholders to highlight employee stories, career paths, and group culture as part of talent attraction efforts.
Continuously improve the candidate experience as a core pillar of employer branding.
Monitor employer branding indicators (candidate feedback, recruitment funnel performance, market perception) and propose improvement actions.
3. Process & Continuous Improvement
Continuously improve recruitment and employer branding to ensure scalability, efficiency, harmonisation, and alignment between a scale-up environment and a group.
Contribute to People data tracking and reporting related to recruitment and employer branding.
Actively support post-acquisition integration by aligning recruitment across newly integrated entities.
Use Teamtailor to manage candidate pipelines, track recruitment metrics, and ensure data-driven decision-making.
Participate and support the people team in cross-functional projects and initiatives.
💻 TOOLS
Teamtailor (ATS)
Notion (documentation & processes)
HiBob (HRIS)
Slack
Google Workspace
YOUR PROFILE
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Must-haves 🫵
Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Recruiter, Talent Acquisition, or similar role in a start-up, scale-up, and international environment.
Fluent in English (written and spoken).
Strong experience managing end-to-end recruitment processes across multiple roles and seniority levels.
Proven experience managing recruitment across multiple regions and technical domains;
Strong ability to assess talent and familiarity with various interview formats and assessment tools;
A strategic, hands-on partner with strong stakeholder management and relationship-building capabilities, with the ability to influence and train hiring managers.
Data-driven mindset with a strong focus on KPIs and process optimisation.
Nice-to-haves ✌️
Additional European languages are a plus.
Comfortable working in a complex, multi-entity, international environment.
WHAT WE OFFER?
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Join a growing international group in a structuring phase with high impact on People processes.
Play a central role in shaping how Kolsquare attracts and hires talent across Europe.
Work in a remote-first environment with autonomy, trust, and strong collaboration.
Be part of building scalable People foundations in a post-acquisition context.
THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
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Interview with Tatiana, our VP People
Interview with Alexis, our CFO
Interview with Julia, our external coach
Interview with Giovanna, our Head of HR (SaaS)
Final interview with Quentin, our CEO
Reference checks
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- Department
- G&A
- Locations
- Portugal, Paris - France, Austria
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Seniority Level
- Mid Senior Level
- LinkedIn Company Page
- Kolsquare | B Corp™
About Kolsquare
Kolsquare is Europe’s leading Influencer Marketing platform, a data-driven solution that allows brands to scale their KOL Marketing strategies and implement authentic partnerships with KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders).
Kolsquare’s technology enables marketing professionals to easily identify the best Content Creators’ profiles by filtering their content and audience, and to build and manage their campaigns from A to Z, including measuring results and benchmarking performance against competitors.
Kolsquare has built a thriving global community of influencer marketing experts, and offers hundreds of customers (Coca-Cola, Netflix, Sony Music, Publicis, Sézane, Sephora,, Lush, Hermès…) the latest Big Data, AI and Machine Learning technologies to drive inspiring partnerships, tapping into an exhaustive network of KOLs with more than 5,000 followers in 180 countries on Instagram, TikTok, X (Twitter), Facebook, YouTube and SnapChat.
As a Certified B Corporation, Kolsquare has been pioneering Responsible Influence by championing transparency, ethical practices, and meaningful collaborations to inspire change.
Since October 2024, Kolsquare forms part of Team.Blue, a leading digital enabler for businesses and entrepreneurs across Europe made up of over 60 successful brands in the fields of web hosting, domains, e-commerce, online compliance, lead generation, application solutions, and social media.