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About the Role
This is a high-impact, business-critical role supporting Shield AI's international expansion across EMEA, with a focus on new market entries, building sales and engineering organizations, and shaping the company's future. The role requires operating as a strategic advisor and market expert to enable scale across diverse EMEA markets.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with senior and executive-level stakeholders to understand business objectives, growth plans, and capability gaps.
- Translate market entry and growth plans 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).
- 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.
- 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 localize 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.
- Use data to forecast hiring needs, track progress, and continuously optimize 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.
Requirements
- 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 with senior 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 balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
Location
- EMEA
Work Type
- Full-time
- Temporary
Salary/Compensations
- Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity (Full-time)
- Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment) (Temporary)
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
- Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
About the Company
- Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.
- Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies.
- With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.
- For more information, visit www.shield.ai.
- Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Equal Opportunity
- Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.