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James Adams In-House

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

Hybrid

Paris, France

€ 500 /day

Senior

Freelance

22-01-2026

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Skills

Leadership Python Machine Learning Marketing Recruitment

Job Specifications

Interim Senior Talent Partner

Day rate: €450 to €500 per day

Contract: 6 months

Hybrid: 2 days per week onsite in Paris

Language: English speaking, French is a bonus

James Adams In House is supporting a high growth, tech led organisation in the Online Brand Protection space to hire an Interim Senior Talent Partner to own engineering hiring across a critical 2026 roadmap. This is an embedded, strategic Talent Partner role, not a delivery only position.

You will sit close to Engineering leadership, shaping hiring plans, building pipelines, improving process, and helping the business attract highly sought after technical talent in a competitive Paris market.

What the role will cover:

Strategic partnering

Act as the primary Talent Partner for Engineering stakeholders, supporting hiring strategy, prioritisation, and role scoping
Provide market insight on talent availability, compensation, and realistic trade offs
Influence hiring decisions, balancing speed, quality, and long term capability

End to end engineering recruitment

Own the full recruitment lifecycle for technical roles, including Python, Machine Learning, and specialist data heavy engineering positions
Translate complex requirements into compelling, candidate friendly narratives
Design and refine interview processes to improve fairness, speed, and consistency

Creative sourcing and attraction

Build proactive, long term pipelines for hard to find engineering profiles
Use multiple channels beyond LinkedIn, including technical communities, open source platforms, events, meetups, referrals, and targeted outreach
Partner with Engineering and Marketing to tell authentic stories about the product, technical challenges, and impact

Data and continuous improvement

Track and use metrics such as time to hire, source effectiveness, and quality signals to improve outcomes
Identify hiring risks early, propose solutions, and continuously iterate on approach

What they are looking for

Essential

Strong track record of recruiting for technical roles in Paris, ideally within Engineering, Python, Machine Learning, AI, data, platform, or specialist software hiring
Experience operating as a senior Talent Partner, confident challenging stakeholders constructively
Strong direct sourcing capability, including LinkedIn Recruiter and alternative sourcing methods
Comfortable managing multiple hires in a fast moving environment
Data literate, able to use metrics to inform decisions and improve process
Fluent English, able to operate confidently with international stakeholders

Nice to have

French language skills
Experience in a product led, tech led, or scale up environment
Familiarity with ATS's (Ashby etc)
Broader hiring exposure outside pure engineering roles

Why this contract is attractive

Senior level stakeholder exposure, genuine influence over hiring outcomes
High complexity technical hiring, core to the organisation’s 2026 strategy
Hybrid Paris working model, with a clear onsite rhythm for stakeholder impact

Interested

If this sounds like you, James Adams In House would love to speak. Share your CV and a brief note outlining your Paris tech hiring experience, typical day rate, and availability to start.

About the Company

James Adams In-House Your recruitment partner, embedded. The flexible solution for growth. At James Adams In-House, we embed experienced recruitment professionals directly into your team. They deliver from day one, with no learning curve, no agency mark-ups, and no long-term commitment until you are ready. When growth demands speed, project-based agility, and cost control, you need results without the wrong kind of commitment. That is where we come in. We do not just fill roles, we embed capability. Our consultants join your... Know more