Lead Recruiter, Specialist Domains at Welocalize

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Overview The Lead Recruiter, Specialist Domains owns the end-to-end recruitment of highly credentialled, domain-expert freelance talent across a defined portfolio of cultural, creative, and specialist domains. This is not a generalist recruitment role. Every candidate placed through this function must be a recognized practitioner or expert in their field – credentialled, verifiable, and operating at a level that generalists cannot replicate.  The Lead Recruiter, Specialist Domains combines hands-on sourcing and assessment with team leadership – directly identifying and evaluating rare talent while guiding a small team across talent acquisition, partner coordination, and vendor management. This includes oversight of a vendor management function responsible for pricing activities, support operations, and brand experience, ensuring all vendor relationships uphold Welocalize’s quality and commercial standards. The role is data-oriented, automation-assisted, and built for creative sourcing in markets where the talent does not self-present through conventional channels.   Main Responsibilities Specialist Recruitment Delivery  A core deliverable of this function is not just identifying SME candidates, but providing structured evidence of their expertise to stakeholders. The Lead Recruiter, Specialist Domains and their team are responsible for gathering and presenting the following signals for every shortlisted candidate.  Source and identify candidates who combine senior-level domain expertise with specific language capabilities – where both are required and neither alone is sufficient.