Talent Acquisition Lead, Engineering
Lisbon, Portugal
OLX – Human Resources /
Full-time /
Hybrid
WELCOME TO OLX
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At OLX, we desire to win - for our customers, our teams, and ourselves. We operate in an ambitious environment built on trust and guided by commitment, collaboration, courage, and a customer-led mindset, which shape how we work and how we make decisions.
The Talent Acquisition Lead (Individual Contributor) serves as a strategic Talent Advisor to the Engineering function, driving hiring outcomes across complex scopes while enhancing candidate experience and stakeholder partnerships. This role shapes hiring strategy, operational excellence, and innovation, leveraging data and market insights to propose proactive solutions, while coaching and enabling other team members when needed.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and execute hiring for the Engineering function across multiple roles and locations.
- End-to-end recruitment for technical roles, ensuring efficient and high-quality hiring outcomes.
- Partner with Engineering leaders and senior stakeholders to define role profiles, hiring priorities, and success criteria.
- Apply diverse sourcing techniques and channels to attract and engage top technical talent.
- Use recruiting metrics, market insights, and data to inform hiring strategy and improve processes.
- Collaborate with HR Business Partners, Talent Rewards, Mobility, and HR Operations to enable smooth and efficient hiring.
- Monitor Talent Acquisition trends, emerging tools, and best practices, sharing insights with the TA team.
- Ensure fair, bias-aware, and inclusive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
Required Skills & Experience
- Proven in-house experience hiring technical talent in fast-paced, international, product-led organizations.
- Strong business acumen and stakeholder management; trusted advisor to senior leadership.
- Ability to influence decisions, navigate uncertainty, and drive change based on data
- Execution excellence with a strong ownership and proactive mindset.
- Solid knowledge of the technical talent market and candidate availability.
- Bias-aware and inclusive approach to hiring.
- Fluent in English.
- Nice to have: mentoring experience with junior TA colleagues.
- Nice to have: exposure to multi-region or global hiring environments.
What we offer
- A regular employment contract with a base salary and an annual bonus.
- Being part of a truly international recruitment team, hiring from Portugal to Romania.
- Occasional team gatherings in different locations.
- A real impact on shaping the TA function at OLX.
- Opportunities for growth and expanding your skills.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at OLX
OLX values diversity and welcomes applicants of all races, ethnicities, disabilities, ages, genders, sexual orientations, religions, backgrounds, and experiences to apply. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements - you may be just the right fit for this or other opportunities with us!
OLX will process your personal data to assess your fit for the applied position. You may optionally consent to store your data for up to 12 months after the application process for consideration in future OLX roles. For more details on how your application data will be processed please check our Privacy Statement.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
