cognition - Recruiter - Europe

• Proven full-cycle recruiting experience at high-growth technology companies, with a strong track record in technical hiring. • Experience recruiting for G&A functions (e.g. finance, legal, people, operations), or the range and curiosity to ramp up quickly across them. • Strong understanding of enterprise software, SaaS, AI, infrastructure, developer tools or cloud markets. • Experience hiring across multiple EMEA markets, with an understanding of local market dynamics, employment practices and compensation norms. • Ability to identify and engage high-calibre passive candidates. • Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to push back, calibrate and advise senior hiring leaders. • Comfort managing a varied req load across functions and seniority levels, and prioritising with sound judgment. • High agency, high ownership and strong attention to detail. • A track record of hiring bar-raising talent in competitive markets. • Comfort operating in a fast-changing, 0 to 1 environment. • Strong sourcing discipline and the ability to build pipeline without relying on inbound or agencies. • A builder mindset: you improve the system while delivering the work. • Based in, or willing to relocate to, London, and comfortable working from our London office. • What Makes You Stand Out • You have helped build early teams in new international markets. • You have recruited for frontier AI, developer tools, infrastructure, cloud or enterprise software companies. • You have hired across both technical and G&A roles, and can switch between them easily. • You have experience partnering with regional stakeholders, founding country leaders and/or G&A leaders. • You are comfortable moving between strategic talent mapping and hands-on execution. • You care deeply about quality, not just speed. • You know how to close candidates who have multiple options.