Talent Acquisition Team Manager

About

Swan is Europe’s embedded banking specialist. We empower software companies to embed banking features like accounts, cards, and payments directly into their products, under their own brand.Swan processes over €2.5 billion in monthly transactions for more than 150 companies - like Pennylane, Indy, Agicap, Libeo, and Lucca.

Founded in 2019, the company has received growth capital from leading investors such as Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Bpifrance and Eight Roads. Swan is a principal member of Mastercard and a licensed financial institution, regulated by the French banking authority (ACPR).

Our mission

Banking belongs in business software

Many software companies already serve small businesses incredibly well: helping them send invoices, run payroll, manage inventory, and more. They’re on a mission to become the central hub for managing every aspect of business life.

But when it comes to financial workflows, there’s still a gap. Too many critical tasks like managing cash flow, tracking payments, or reconciling accounts happen outside the software, across spreadsheets, email threads, banking portals.

It’s a missed opportunity. Business software shouldn’t just record financial activity — it should run it.

To learn more about us: About Swan ; Career. 

Job description

✨ Your mission

We are looking for a Talent Acquisition Team Manager to lead and develop Swan’s recruitment function. You will manage a team of 4 Talent Acquisition Specialists and will report directly to Anne, our Chief People Officer.

This is a 60/40 leadership and hands-on role:

• Around 60% of your time will focus on Talent Acquisition strategy, team management, workforce planning, stakeholder partnership and process improvement.

• Around 40% of your time will be spent directly contributing to strategic and complex recruitments, mainly across GTM, Scale, Operations and Risk.

Your role will be to create a clear and effective operating model for the TA team, help Swan make better hiring decisions and ensure that recruitment priorities remain aligned with the company’s needs.

✨ Main tasks

Build and lead the Talent Acquisition strategy

• Define Swan’s Talent Acquisition strategy and translate business priorities into a structured hiring roadmap.

• Build a realistic capacity plan for the team, balancing hiring priorities, workload and expected recruitment volume.

• Create clear operating rhythms, governance and reporting to improve visibility and predictability.

Manage and develop the Talent Acquisition team

• Manage a team of Talent Acquisition professionals, with clear objectives and ownership.

• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, feedback and continuous improvement.

• Ensure sustainable workload management and support the team’s growth and performance.

Partner with hiring managers and senior stakeholders

• Act as a trusted recruitment partner to senior stakeholders, ExCom, and hiring managers across the organisation.

• Improve hiring intakes, clarify expectations and challenge unrealistic requirements constructively.

• Create transparency on recruitment priorities, timelines, risks and trade-offs.

Personally lead strategic recruitments

• Own a portfolio of strategic and complex recruitments, mainly across GTM, Scale, Operations and Risk.

• Build targeted sourcing strategies, assess candidates consistently and support hiring teams through the decision process.

• Represent Swan with senior candidates and ensure a high-quality candidate experience.

Improve recruitment quality and operational excellence

• Define and monitor relevant Talent Acquisition KPIs, including funnel health, delivery, quality and stakeholder experience.

• Strengthen the consistency of interview processes, scorecards, recruitment data and reporting.

• Simplify processes and continuously improve the candidate and hiring manager experience.

✨ Curious about your future team?

You will join Swan’s People team, composed :

• Anne, our Chief People Officer,

• Raphaëlle, Héloïse, Constance, Valentin, Talent Acquisition Specialists

• Estelle and Clémentine, HRBP,

• Agathe and Clara HR Operations,

• Clarisse, HR Project Manager,

• Ikram, Training apprentice. Within the Talent Acquisition team

Preferred experience

✨ You’re a great match if:

• 8–12+ years in Talent Acquisition, including senior leadership roles

• Proven experience scaling recruitment in tech / scale-up environments. Bonus if you have an experience in fintech

• Excellent leadership skills, with a strong ability to coach and develop others.

• Hands-on and not afraid to roll up your sleeves when needed.

• Detail-oriented, data-driven, and continuously seek ways to improve processes.

• Demonstrated ability to manage both executive hiring

• Highly assertive, structured, and outcome-driven

• Fluent in English and French

It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes - don’t let imposter syndrome prevent you from applying! 🙌 

Swan is committed to providing a caring work environment for all employees, regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

When it comes to recruitment, we’re interested in your work experience, skills, and overall personality. Because diversity makes the workplace stronger and is necessary for Swan’s success, we are intensifying efforts to incorporate concrete actions to help us improve in this area.

About Swan

✨ Perks of being a Swanee:

• Holidays : 25 days + RTT 🏝️

• Meal Vouchers: We provide a meal voucher card to cover your meals on work days. 🥗

• Transport: Monthly mobility package for employees. In accordance with the company agreement for sustainable mobilities, you can now use your mobility package to pay for alternative commuting modes. 🚇

• Health insurance (mutuelle): Alan. This is Swan's health and welfare insurance. 🚑

• Sports: Thanks to our partnership with Classpass, you can enjoy advantageous discounts on subscriptions. They offer a wide range of sports activities as well as wellness activities. 🏋

• Well-being support: access to Moka Care for mental health and wellness. 🧘

• Hybrid remote policy: We offer the possibility of working from home for 2 days per week. 🏡

• Offsite: Once a year we gather to reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax. 🤝

• This isn’t a perk, it should be the rule, but diversity and inclusion are important at Swan. We’re working hard to get better every day.

✨ Our values:

Swan’s core values guide our actions daily. Individually, they may seem obvious, but together, they form a unique culture.

Simplicity: Leonardo Da Vinci said: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” If something's convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down - Making complex things simple is what we do.

Long Term: We always play the long game, whether it's to support our partners in their growth journey, or make tangible commitments to climate action.

Excellence: We are a team of experts who consistently go all out to create pixel-perfect banking services and exceed our partners' expectations - whatever it takes.

Be Human: We believe in the power of kindness and the importance of acting with integrity. But embracing our humanity extends beyond interpersonal interactions, it means caring about greater issues that affect our planet.

You can find out more about our culture.

Recruitment process

1. Prescreen: TA (30min) : Baptiste, current Talent Acquisition Team Manager in freelance

2. Hiring Manager interview (60min) : Anne, Chief People Officer

3. Use case (60min) : Baptiste + Héloïse, RPO

4. Peer Interview with some one you will work with (45mn)

5. Management ITW (60min) : Estelle, HRBP

6. Last interview (N+2) (60min) : Camille, CEO