Talent Acquisition Manager

Location: London or Dublin
Type: Full-time, Permanent
Working style: Hybrid
Reports to: COO

About Kota

Kota is reimagining insurance and retirement benefits for the modern workforce. Through our two flagship products—Kota Platform, the first fully integrated benefits platform, and Kota Embed, our embedded insurance solution—we're making benefits more accessible, valued, and global.

Today, we power benefits for tens of thousands of employees at Europe's most forward-thinking companies, including Carwow, Tines, Zoe, and Remote. Founded in 2022, we've raised more than €20M from leading investors like EQT Ventures, Eurazeo, Northzone, and Frontline, along with founders and executives from Workday, Remote, Personio, OpenAI, and more.

The Role

We are looking to hire a Talent Acquisition Manager to shape our recruitment strategy and to build out the function as Kota scales in 2026. This person will make an invaluable contribution to the business achieving its goals this year and beyond, supporting all functions in their expansion.

The scope of the position will cover talent acquisition strategy, candidate sourcing, screening, process management, onboarding input, all while leading a best-in-class candidate experience and maintaining full compliance.

This individual should be an excellent operator and communicator, able to articulate Kota’s employee value proposition in a way that excites potential team members. The role represents an opportunity to build the company’s talent acquisition function as a whole, supported by an experienced and driven management team.

The role will be based in Dublin or London.

What You'll Do

• Own recruitment strategy. Build recruitment framework for Kota and obtain buy-in from key stakeholders, creating a path to scale with the business

• Redesign candidate experience. Map out and implement an ideal candidate process that results in increased satisfaction on both sides

• Manage candidate processes. Act as key point of contact for candidates and manage communications across all stakeholders

• Drive improved reporting. Set up reporting for management visibility and to drive increased speed to hire, resulting in continuous optimisations

• Set up salary benchmarking. Establish salary benchmarking process across markets, ensuring up-to-date figures that feed into Kota’s own salary bands for roles

• Handle ad-hoc requests relating to people and talent topics, including deep dives or issue analysis and resolution.

What We're Looking For

• 6+ years of experience in fast-growing startups or top-tier recruitment agencies or equivalent

• Bias for action. You prefer to drive things to completion and achieve results

• Candidate-first mindset. We want to build and execute an industry-leading candidate experience

• Clear communication. Excellent written and verbal skills. You can communicate ideas clearly and engage stakeholders at all levels

• Strong analytical skills across tools, with ability to assess and present recruitment performance

• Comfort with ambiguity. You thrive when there's no playbook. You'd rather build the thing than inherit the thing.

Our Values

• Have Integrity. We care deeply about our why and it won’t jeopardise our how.

• Care Deeply. Our products are our story, we look at the details, go the extra mile to delight customers.

• Own Your Ship. Ask why, do the work, get the data, solve the problem, be an owner.

• Raise the Bar. We continuously look to push past good enough. Expect more, move faster, and never stop raising your and the team’s standards.

• Play to Win. We exist because we decided to say no to the norm – now we do this everyday.