Recruitment Lead Digital Experience & Engineering

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

• Alongside the Head of TA, you will develop and implement the talent strategy for our Digital Experience services across key EMEA markets. You're shaping how we hire at the senior and strategic end, not just running the searches.
• Operates as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, managing expectations, challenging the brief when the ask doesn't match reality, and turning "unicorn" requests into searchable, fillable mandates.
• Use data to lead, not just report; turn hiring intelligence into the insight that shapes leadership decisions and unblocks them before they stall.
• Drive innovation across the function; pioneer new sourcing channels, AI-enabled tooling and assessment approaches, and set the standard for how DEPT® hunts rather than inheriting it.
• Build and own proactive talent pipelines and market maps so we're never starting a search cold; you know where the A-players sit, and why they'd move, before the role even opens.
• Headhunt directly at the top end. You live in LinkedIn Recruiter and your own network, going after passive senior talent at rival networks and boutiques rather than waiting on inbound.
• Be the face of DEPT® in the market; represent us at industry events, on panels and in the talent community, building our employer brand and a network that pays off long before we have a vacancy to fill.
• Champion candidate experience across EMEA, making sure every future Depster feels the "small enough to care" side of us from first touch.
• Raise the bar across the recruiting team; share playbooks, mentor, and lift how we hunt as a function.