# Talent Acquisition Lead

[Upwind](https://gurify.com/jobs?q=Upwind) · Ramat Gan, Israel · Posted today

Lead

[Security](https://gurify.com/jobs/security)

[HR & Recruiting](https://gurify.com/jobs/hr)

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## Job description

### About Upwind

Upwind is a next-generation Cloud Security Platform that uses runtime context to identify and prioritize the risks that actually matter. With eBPF-powered sensors, we deliver agentless cloud posture discovery, real-time threat protection, and integrated API security, so teams can focus on what truly matters instead of drowning in alerts.

We’re in a period of significant growth. There’s an enormous amount to build, improve, and shape, and every hire changes the trajectory of the company.

### About the Role

We’re looking for a Talent Acquisition Lead: an experienced recruiter who is as strong in the room with a hiring manager as with a candidate.

You’ll own a full-cycle desk of tech roles, but the role is bigger than the desk. You’ll be the person hiring managers lean on for a real recruiting conversation: calibrating a role, resetting expectations when the market pushes back, giving honest feedback on a process, and building a hiring approach together. You’ll work with a high degree of independence, and you’ll set the professional standard for the rest of the recruiting team.

This is a professional leadership role, not a people-management role. You’ll lead through expertise, judgment, and example.

### What You’ll Do

- Own full-cycle recruiting for a portfolio of tech roles: sourcing, screening, process management, and closing.

- Be a true thought partner to hiring managers: run intake and calibration, share market insight, challenge assumptions when needed, and keep every process moving with clarity and trust.

- Handle the complex conversations independently: managing expectations, reflecting hard feedback, and aligning stakeholders without needing escalation.

- Lead the way we recruit: design and improve interview structure, scorecards, feedback loops, and how we work with R&D and other functions. Spot what’s broken and fix it.

- Bring innovation to the team: new sourcing approaches, AI-assisted tools, and fresh ideas that we test and scale.

- Be the professional lead for the recruiting team: share best practices, coach on hiring manager partnership, and help maintain a consistent, high standard across Israel, EMEA, and APJ.

- Create an experience candidates remember: high-touch, honest, and well managed from the first call to the offer.

- Tap into your own network and our internal one (referrals, employee connections) as a real, ongoing source of talent.

### Requirements

### What We’re Looking For

### Must-have

- Proven full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally 5+ years in tech recruiting, with a strong track record in R&D hiring.

- Real credibility with senior hiring managers: you can hold a tough conversation, give direct feedback, and calm a stressed process.

- Experience building or meaningfully improving recruiting processes, not just running them.

- A relationship-first approach to candidates and stakeholders alike.

- Fluency with modern recruiting tools, including AI-assisted sourcing. You seek them out.

- Strong ownership and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

### Nice-to-have

- Experience mentoring or informally leading other recruiters.

- A strong personal network in Israeli hi-tech, built through a military unit, a professional community, or years in the industry.

- Background as an agency recruiter or headhunter with network-based placements.

- Experience hiring across Israel, EMEA, and/or the US.

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