Location: Lisbon
About the job:
This role plays a pivotal part in shaping our talent strategy by balancing swift, high-quality hiring with long-term people development. Reporting to the Chief People Officer, this position will own key aspects of employer branding, competency-based recruitment, and scalable learning initiatives, while working closely with leaders and teams to ensure a strong and consistent employee experience as we grow.
Key Responsibilities:
Talent Acquisition - Hiring & Pipeline Building
- Lead full-cycle recruitment for technical, operational, and corporate roles across Portugal and future European locations.
- Build and maintain talent pipelines for critical roles (engineering, operations, energy, security, compliance, commercial).
- Run structured, competency-based interviews to reduce bias and ensure a consistent candidate experience.
- Partner with hiring managers to define role profiles, skills matrices, and selection processes.
Talent Attraction & Employer Branding
- Develop targeted sourcing strategies for niche data center and energy-related profiles.
- Support employer branding initiatives, including events, partnerships with technical schools, and online presence.
Learning Programs
- Assess training needs and design scalable learning programs (technical, safety, leadership, and onboarding).
- Manage relationships with external training providers across Portugal and Europe.
- Coordinate certification and compliance-oriented training required for data center operations.
Performance & Development
- Contribute to the design and rollout of career frameworks and competency models.
- Support performance review cycles and tools, including feedback culture initiatives.
- Help build leadership and management development programs as we scale.
Required Skills & Experience
- 3+ years in Talent Acquisition or combined TA + L&D roles, ideally in tech, engineering, energy, or infrastructure sectors.
- Solid experience running full recruitment cycles with technical or hard-to-fill roles.
- Experience using ATS and L&D systems
- Strong capability to design or manage learning initiatives.
- Ability to operate in a fast-growing, ambiguous environment where systems, processes, and job descriptions evolve quickly.
- Excellent communication skills in Portuguese and English.
- Experience in start-ups, scale-ups, or greenfield projects (data center or energy industry is considered a plus).
Why You'll Love It Here:
- Impact: Lead world class operations at Europe’s largest and most sustainable data center.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams and contribute to business development.
- Flexibility: Empowered to lead with autonomy and creativity in a fast-paced, client-centric environment.
- Growth: Join a company committed to innovation, professional development, and service excellence.
About Us:
At Start Campus, we provide mission-critical data center services that power businesses globally. We're customer-centric, innovative, and always looking to push boundaries.
If you're passionate about building relationships, driving customer success, and thriving in a tech-driven world, we want to hear from you!
If you think you have what it takes for this position and are looking for a new professional challenge send your application.
If you think you have what it takes for this position and are looking for a new professional challenge send your application.