Lead Recruiter

We are hiring a Lead Recruiter for our Buenos Aires Campus, to lead our Academy program & experienced hires needs. We've grown from 80 people to 300 and counting! Join us and shape where this campus grows next.

So, tell me about the company

Brainlabs is culture-first. You’ve probably heard other companies describe themselves as people, clients, or profit first – but we see people, clients and profit as the building blocks of our ecosystem. Culture powers all three and we know that when the ecosystem is balanced, we all win! That's why the culture we cultivate is a culture of winning together.

To learn more about what it’s like to be a Brainlabber, check out our culture code.

What would I do as a Lead Recruiter?

Recruitment & Hiring — 60%
End-to-end recruitment

 

• Own the end-to-end hiring process across Academy, experienced hires and local hiring needs for the Argentina hub.
• Partner with hiring managers to scope roles, build role profiles and job descriptions, source and screen candidates, coordinate interviews and manage offers.
• Maintain an active, relevant talent pipeline for current and future hiring needs.
• Ensure recruitment processes are well organised, timely and provide a positive candidate experience.
• Own internal and external communications throughout the process: pre-briefs, pre-debriefs, interview confirmations, offer communications.
• Maintain an active, relevant talent pipeline for current and future hiring needs.
• Ensure recruitment processes are well organised, timely and provide a positive candidate experience.
• Own internal and external communications throughout the process: pre-briefs, pre-debriefs, interview confirmations, offer communications.

Hiring targets & quality

• Own Academy and experienced hiring targets for the Argentina hub.
• Maintain average Time to Fill below 60 days for standard roles and below 90 days for hard-to-fill roles.
• Assess quality-of-hire against role scorecards and interview criteria, and flag high-potential hires early.

Internal mobility / resourcing

• Identify suitable internal candidates for open roles and run internal mobility opportunities end to end.
• Partner with regional and practice teams to forecast upcoming hiring needs and plan headcount accurately.

Requisition ownership

• Own requisition data and hiring up to date, keeping status, levels and days-open current and accurate.
• Track and report on recruitment activity, interview stages and hiring outcomes, including cancelled vs. filled requisitions, to flag capacity risk before it becomes a backlog problem.

Process improvement

• Identify and drive opportunities to improve recruitment processes, candidate experience and hiring efficiency.
• Contribute to initiatives aimed at improving Academy hiring and retention of high-performing candidates.
• Keep recruitment processes and tooling current, automating and simplifying where it saves real time.

Team Leadership & People Management — 10%

• Directly manage a TA Associate: set priorities, distribute workload, and coach on sourcing, screening and stakeholder handling.
• Own the Associate's development plan, including skill-building toward independent ownership of searches.
• Act as the escalation point for scheduling conflicts, difficult stakeholder conversations, and edge-case candidate decisions.
• Build bench strength so recruitment coverage doesn't depend on a single person.

Stakeholder Management & Reporting — 20%

• Own working relationships with Heads of Practice, Client Partners and Operations Managers across the hub.
• Report hiring status, pipeline health and risk to leadership on a regular cadence.
• Push back on unrealistic scope, timeline or level expectations from hiring managers, with data to back it up.

Employer Branding & Partnerships — 10%

• Own employer branding initiatives for BA Campus: social media, careers content, events and other talent attraction activity.
• Build and maintain relationships with universities and other relevant talent sources.
• Participate in initiatives to strengthen Brainlabs' talent network and attract diverse candidates.
• Represent Brainlabs as an employer of choice at recruitment events and partnerships, working with the wider People/Recruitment team to promote Brainlabs externally.

What are you looking for this role?

• 5-6 years of experience in talent acquisition or recruitment, including experience managing or mentoring at least one direct report.
• Fluency in English and Spanish, spoken and written.
• Experience owning full-cycle recruitment across open roles, and confident partnering with senior stakeholders including HRBPs, Heads of Practice and hiring managers, with the standing to push back when scope or timeline isn't realistic.
• Candidate-focused, with the emotional intelligence to read different perspectives and create a consistent, positive experience under pressure.
• Comfortable with an ATS (Greenhouse or equivalent) and adopting AI-enabled recruitment tools in daily workflow.
• Track record of improving recruitment processes, not just running the ones already in place.
• Organized self-starter who manages multiple roles, candidates and stakeholders simultaneously without needing to be chased, and stays effective when priorities shift.
• Practical problem-solver, particularly on scheduling and process bottlenecks.

What's in there for me?

• This is a full time job (en relación de dependencia).
• Hybrid salary scheme (50% paid in USD).
• 20 working days vacation plus all Argentina public holidays.
• Private healthcare (OSDE 360).
• Adaptive/hybrid working, with 3 days in our amazing Palermo Office (right opposite the Hippodrome!)
• Free breakfast and lunch in the office.
• Quarterly training sessions on wider business skills (pitching, strategy, client servicing)
• Mobility programmes - work from another country for up to 30 days!