Tech Talent Acquisition Specialist (12 months FTC)

Vinted, the European platform redefining how people buy and sell pre-loved clothes and lifestyle items, is looking for a Tech Talent Acquisition Specialist to help fuel its growth from Amsterdam on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The company has built a trio of units to power its mission: Vinted Marketplace, Vinted Go, and Vinted Pay. This hybrid role suits someone who enjoys partnering with technical teams, shaping smart recruitment practices, and delivering an excellent candidate experience across engineering, product management, data science and analytics, design, and research, the focus may shift with business needs.

As a Tech Talent Acquisition Specialist, you’ll play a central part in attracting and hiring the right people for Vinted’s tech areas while keeping the candidate journey smooth and professional. If you like collaborating with hiring managers, driving improvements in how roles are filled, and contributing to scalable recruitment processes, you’ll likely feel at home here. The role is offered as a 12-month fixed-term contract, with the possibility of permanency in the future depending on business needs.

Vinted began in 2008 in Lithuania and has since grown into a company with offices across Europe and a team of more than 2,000 people, with its headquarters in Vilnius. In Amsterdam, you’d join a global business that emphasizes collaboration and continuous improvement as it helps millions of members connect with great items and trusted services.

What you’ll do day to day

You’ll partner with hiring managers to understand their needs and craft a smooth interview path that helps them attract the right tech talent. You’ll own the end-to-end recruitment process, from job posts and proactive sourcing to interviews and offers, while building a strong pool of candidates through LinkedIn, other sourcing tools, job boards, employee referrals, and employer branding activities.

Guiding interviewers on effective techniques and evaluation methods will be part of your daily work, as will tracking key hiring metrics to keep processes efficient and the candidate experience positive. You’ll also contribute to process improvement projects and stay current with recruitment best practices and tools to continually lift how candidates experience the journey from first contact to offer.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Experience as a sourcer, recruiter, or talent acquisition specialist with a focus on tech roles
• Proficiency in sourcing candidates using LinkedIn and a range of recruitment tools
• Strong capability in engaging candidates and building relationships
• Solid understanding of assessment tools and how interview outcomes are evaluated
• Excellent English communication, with the ability to collaborate across teams and levels
• A proactive mindset and a desire to grow within the talent acquisition field

Pay, perks and practical details

The annual gross salary range for this position is: €47.300–€63.900 EUR. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract, with a potential path to permanency depending on business needs. The role is based in Amsterdam with a hybrid arrangement that suggests two days in the office each week, letting you balance collaboration with focused work. Vinted also brings a range of benefits, including a share options programme, 25 days of paid annual leave, the latest MacBook models, a confidential Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family, frequent team-building events, and support for your home office setup up to €540 for furniture. You’ll also enjoy a daily lunch benefit, a company bike leasing scheme, a monthly budget for a flexible benefits platform, a work-from-home allowance, a personal monthly shopping budget on Vinted, a Collective Defined Contribution pension plan, an NS Business Card for public-transport commutes, and a dog-friendly office.

Tips for applicants

Your resume should foreground tech recruitment experience, especially end-to-end hiring for engineering, product, data, design, or research roles, and show how you supported hiring managers to reach hiring goals.

Demonstrate your sourcing prowess by outlining how you’ve used LinkedIn and other tools to build candidate pools, including evidence of proactive outreach and collaboration with employer branding campaigns or similar initiatives.

Be ready to talk about the assessment tools and interview evaluation techniques you’ve applied, with examples of how you helped teams decide which candidates to move forward and how you measured success in the process.

Have a thoughtful question prepared for the interview that ties to this role, such as how the team currently prioritizes hiring across Engineering, Product Management, Data Science & Analytics, Design, and Research, or what success looks like in the first 90 days for this 12-month role and whether there are opportunities to extend or convert the position.