Talent Acquisition Specialist (Headhunter)
About the role
Talent Acquisition Specialist (Headhunter) role at HyLight, a fast-growing climate tech startup building autonomous airships for inspection, based in Paris, France. You will own sourcing strategies for critical hires, build candidate relationships, and partner with hiring managers to scale engineering, operations, and business functions during rapid growth.
Responsibilities
- Own sourcing strategies for critical and hard-to-fill positions across engineering, operations, and business teams.
- Identify, engage, and attract exceptional candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, networking, and other sourcing channels.
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for both current and future hiring needs.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand hiring requirements and define ideal candidate profiles.
- Conduct initial screening and qualification interviews to assess candidate fit and motivation.
- Drive an exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
- Develop personalized outreach campaigns that showcase HyLight's mission and culture.
- Use recruiting metrics and market insights to continuously improve sourcing effectiveness and hiring efficiency.
- Stay informed about talent market trends, competitor hiring activity, and best practices in recruitment.
Qualifications
- Proven experience in talent acquisition, executive search, or headhunting, either in-house or within a recruitment agency.
- Strong sourcing expertise using LinkedIn Recruiter and other talent sourcing platforms.
- Experience managing multiple recruitment processes simultaneously.
- Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), recruitment tools, and modern collaboration platforms.
- Ability to recruit technical, engineering, and business profiles.
Skills
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- 100% reimbursement of public transport pass (Navigo) or €800/year for sustainable commuting
- Bike provided for commuting
- Free lunch
- Bi-annual offsite trips with the whole team
- Excellent work environment: international team, regular team events, and offices on a former airbase
About HyLight
Small unmanned hydrogen airships for long range monitoring
HyLight builds and operates autonomous airships for long range monitoring. We focus on detecting methane leaks on pipelines and defects on power lines. Our innovation, the HyLighter, is a crossover between drone and airship technology. Like a drone, it is easily controllable and transportable. And, like an airship, it is extremely energy-efficient, enabling it to fly for up to 10 hours at slow speed (22mph) for optimal data collection which represents a range of 220miles. Today, energy infrastructure operators struggle with conducting inspections that are simultaneously: massive and precise. HyLight offers a solution to precisely detect issues on the infrastructure at an industrial scale, and all of this without emitting GHGs. We are 3 co-founders experienced in hardware and energy companies with Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Business from the best Engineering and Business School in France. We have developed 5 different flying aircrafts and signed 5 pilots programs with major energy infrastructure operators. We also have LOIs worth over $3.5M.
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