Senior Technical Talent Acquisition Partner, EMEA (Contract)

The Opportunity

Flywire is seeking a strategic hands-on Senior Technical Talent Acquisition Partner EMEA to accelerate the teams building our global payments platform and vertical software.

Based in London with office based 2-3 times per week you will own high-impact technical hiring across EMEA partnering closely with engineering product data security and business leaders to build exceptional teams in London Cluj Romania Lithuania Tel Aviv Israel and Valencia Spain.

This is a highly consultative contract role for a recruiter who combines rigorous talent craft with market fluency operational excellence and an AI-native mindset. You will bring deep technical recruiting expertise a strong understanding of EMEA talent markets and ideally experience recruiting within fintech payments financial infrastructure SaaS or another complex regulated technology environment.

What You Will Do

• Own full-cycle technical recruiting across EMEA including intake talent mapping sourcing assessment design candidate management offer partnership and closing.
• Partner with leaders to hire exceptional talent across software engineering platform data AI security product and technical leadership roles.
• Build trusted relationships with hiring managers and senior leaders translating business priorities into calibrated role profiles pragmatic hiring plans and high-quality interview processes.
• Develop market-specific sourcing strategies for London Cluj Lithuania Tel Aviv and Valencia informed by local talent supply competition compensation dynamics hiring practices and candidate motivations.
• Identify and engage talent that can thrive in a global regulated high-scale payments environment.
• Leverage modern compliant AI-enabled recruiting workflows to improve talent research market intelligence outreach quality pipeline management and operating efficiency while protecting the human candidate experience.
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience through clear communication thoughtful preparation timely feedback and authentic storytelling about Flywires mission culture and technical challenges.
• Build inclusive durable pipelines and talent maps for priority technical skill sets and EMEA locations.
• Bring concise actionable market intelligence to hiring leaders including talent availability funnel health hiring risks and recommendations before they become blockers.
• Raise the bar on hiring quality by improving interview calibration structured evaluation debrief discipline candidate conversion and equitable selection practices.
• Maintain accurate candidate data and pipeline hygiene within Flywires ATS and recruiting tools.
• Use recruiting metrics to identify bottlenecks improve velocity and continuously enhance the end-to-end hiring experience.
• Represent Flywire credibly within the EMEA technical talent community and build long-term relationships with candidates and external networks.

Qualifications :

What We Are Looking For

• 5 years of full-cycle talent acquisition experience including substantial ownership of technical hiring within a high-growth technology SaaS fintech payments or similarly complex environment.
• Demonstrated success recruiting across multiple EMEA markets with experience hiring in the United Kingdom and one or more of Romania Lithuania Israel or Spain strongly preferred.
• Experience recruiting for fintech payments banking technology financial infrastructure risk compliance or other regulated technology environments is highly valued.
• Strong experience recruiting technical talent across software engineering platform data AI security product and technical leadership roles.
• An AI-native recruiting mindset with practical experience using AI-enabled tools and workflows to elevate recruiting effectiveness while applying sound judgment around privacy data quality bias mitigation and candidate trust.
• Exceptional sourcing stakeholder management and assessment skills with a proven ability to find hard-to-reach technical talent and convert high-caliber candidates.
• Strong consultative presence and the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively influence senior stakeholders and guide sound hiring decisions through data and market insight.
• High standards for operational excellence including candidate data stakeholder communication pipeline hygiene and delivery against commitments.
• Comfort using ATS platforms LinkedIn Recruiter talent intelligence tools and recruiting analytics to manage and improve hiring outcomes.
• Fluent written and spoken English strong cross-cultural awareness and the ability to work effectively across global teams and time zones. Additional European language skills are a plus.
• Comfort entering a fast-moving environment building trust quickly and delivering meaningful impact with independence and accountability.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Improve the quality speed and predictability of critical EMEA technical hiring.
• Build stronger and more diverse pipelines for priority technical capabilities and locations.
• Give hiring leaders clear actionable insight on market conditions and recruiting trade-offs.
• Deliver a candidate experience that reflects Flywires global collaborative and high-performance culture.

Additional Information :

Our Hiring Process

Throughout the process you can expect to meet with FlyMates including the Hiring Manager peers on the team and relevant leaders along with a skills-based assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will guide you through the process and be your go-to person for questions.

Equal Opportunity

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. We make employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to any status protected by applicable law.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time