Senior Tech Talent Acquisition Partner

At Sum Up, we build simple, affordable financial tools that empower over 4 million small businesses worldwide to get paid, manage their money, and thrive. We are a global team of 3,000+ people across 20+ offices and 90+ nationalities, all dedicated to supporting merchants with excellent products.

As a Talent Acquisition team, we don't just fill seats. We care deeply about hiring excellence and finding people who truly elevate our teams. For us, recruitment is a team sport - we win together, constantly looking how we can improve and bounce ideas off each other, and always step in to help whenever someone gets stuck or hits a wall.

We have ambitious engineering hiring targets ahead of us in Spain and other EU markets and are looking for a Senior Tech TA Partner based in our Barcelona hub. In this role, you will own Engineering, Product, Data, and Design roles for our critical Banking and Lending domains. Operating as a true talent advisor, and local expert - you will shape the hiring strategy, and scale the teams responsible for our core financial products around Banking & Lending.

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• Own the end-to-end hiring journey for roles across Engineering, Product, Design, and Data, maintaining a consistently high hiring bar as we scale.
• You will build trusted relationships with hiring managers across the Banking and Lending portfolios, serving as a proactive advisor rather than a reactive coordinator. You will lead regular hiring cadences, maintain clear pipeline visibility, and deliver data-led recommendations on market realities and role prioritization.
• You will build out a structured market map of Spain's tech ecosystem to advance sourcing efforts that build sustainable pipelines that reduce time-to-fill for critical roles.
• You will champion Sum Up’s presence within the Barcelona tech scene, engaging with local communities, events, and networks to position us as the employer of choice for top-tier technical talent.
• Track and analyze funnel health metrics across your portfolio to surface blockers, challenge hiring assumptions, optimize sourcing efforts, and provide stakeholders with clear, actionable recommendations.
• Create an inclusive hiring process that guarantees an exceptional experience for candidates and hiring teams.

• You have a proven track record of managing full-cycle talent acquisition for Engineering, Product, Data, and Design roles within fast-moving environments.
• You possess an understanding of the competitive tech landscape in the Spanish and broader EU tech talent market, with expertise in advanced sourcing, market mapping, and building robust, diverse top-of-funnel strategies.
• You operate as a trusted partner rather than just executing briefs. You confidently manage complex, multi-stakeholder portfolios - advising hiring managers on market realities, driving role prioritization, and guiding interview calibration and debriefs.
• You understand how to use funnel analytics and market insights to track pipeline efficiency, inform your hiring strategies, and influence decisions.
• Genuine care for creating an outstanding candidate experience and knowing how to show that We Care.
• Fluency in English as we are an international team of over 90 nationalities

• Opportunity to work with Sum Uppers globally on large-scale fintech products used by millions of businesses worldwide, from our Barcelona office. This involves an office-first setup
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: be part of a workplace that values and promotes diversity, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone's perspectives are respected and embraced
• Enrolment onto our Virtual Stock Option programme: you will own a stake in Sum Up's future success
• A dedicated annual L&D budget of €2000 for your individual development, which can be used to attend conferences and/or advance your career through further education
• Generous time off: enjoy 23 days of paid leave plus public holidays and special leave days
• Subsidised restaurant tickets (Edenred) and office breakfast on Mondays
• Break4me: 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service
• Referral Bonus:…