Talent Acquisition Team Lead (m/f/x)
Skeleton Technologies is looking for a
Talent Acquisition Team Lead to join our People & Office team.
Skeleton Technologies is looking for a Talent Acquisition Team Lead to build, lead, and elevate our hiring function.
This is a senior, high-impact role for someone who thrives in fast-paced tech environments and enjoys owning the full talent journey—from strategy and sourcing through to onboarding and long-term success—working hand in hand with the HR team.
How you can help us on the journey:
Your Mission
As Talent Acquisition Team Lead, you will own and drive Skeleton’s end-to-end recruitment strategy, ensuring we attract, hire, and successfully integrate top talent across all levels—from high-volume project hiring to critical C-level roles on an international scale.
This role goes beyond closing candidates: you will actively shape the post-signing experience and collaborate closely with HR to ensure a seamless transition from hiring into onboarding, engagement, and retention.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead, coach, and develop the Talent Acquisition team, setting clear goals and high performance standards.
- Drive data-driven hiring, using metrics and insights to continuously improve speed, quality, and quality-of-hire.
- Manage and deliver on a high volume of concurrent hiring projects across technical, commercial, and corporate roles.
- Personally lead and partner on C-level and senior leadership hiring within the global tech sector.
- Own and execute international hiring initiatives, with a strong focus on the US and Middle East markets.
- Take responsibility for the full recruitment lifecycle, including activities after contract signing, ensuring strong candidate engagement through start date and beyond.
- Work very collaboratively with the HR team on onboarding, workforce planning, employer branding, and people processes.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and the executive team on talent strategy and organizational growth.
- Build scalable hiring and onboarding processes that support rapid global expansion.
- Strengthen Skeleton’s employer brand across international tech hubs.
Requirements
What you bring?
- Proven experience leading a Talent Acquisition or Recruitment team in a tech-driven environment.
- Strong background in data-driven recruitment and recruitment analytics.
- Hands-on experience managing high-volume, complex hiring projects.
- Demonstrated success hiring senior leaders and C-level executives in the tech sector.
- Solid experience with international hiring, ideally including the United States and Middle East.
- Experience working closely with HR and People teams beyond recruitment alone.
- Strong understanding of the full employee lifecycle and the importance of post-offer engagement.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including close interaction with C-level leaders.
- A proactive, structured, and resilient mindset—comfortable in a broad, stretched role within a scaling organization.
- Fluency in English; additional languages are a plus.
- Location: Europe.
Why should you join?
Personal growth is guaranteed. You get to work in an international company that is tackling challenges from scale up of new factories, to development of new technologies, and sales to worldwide customers.
Skeleton has a clear purpose - we fight climate change by providing short duration energy storage technology.
Benefits
We're not just about energy storage. We're about redefining energy for a net zero future, and we'd love for you to be a part of our journey.
About Skeleton
Skeleton Technologies is a Global Cleantech 100 company and a technology leader in high-power energy storage, enabling the next generation of AI infrastructure, electrified transportation, grids, and industrial systems.
For us, developing and producing the best energy storage solutions is a means to an end: helping companies to reduce CO2 emissions and save energy.
We work with leading global companies across AI infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, grid operators, automotive and industrial OEMs, defense, and aerospace, including customers and partners in Europe and the United States. Our technologies improve power quality, unlock higher system performance, and accelerate electrification while directly reducing energy losses and CO₂ emissions.
Skeleton’s supercapacitor and SuperBattery technologies, based on patented curved graphene, represent the most significant breakthrough in high-power energy storage in decades. They deliver unmatched power density, long cycle life, and reliability, making them uniquely suited for AI data centers, grid-forming applications, and other mission-critical systems where failure is not an option.
Skeleton Technologies operates a vertically integrated, industrial-scale footprint across trusted supply chains.
We are headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, with manufacturing in Markranstädt, Germany and Varkaus, Finland; materials development in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany; R&D and commercial teams across Finland and France; and a growing presence in the United States to support AI infrastructure and strategic partners in North America.