Senior Talent Acquisition Partner (9-month contract)

About the role

KAYAK is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to join their global and collaborative People & Culture team on a 9-month fixed-term contract. This role will work from the Cambridge, Massachusetts office 3 days per week and will start in July 2026 and continue through April 2027.

Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruitment from initial intake through offer, with a focus on hiring for Product, Design, Commercial (Sales, Partnerships), Marketing, and Engineering roles — including backfills and incremental headcount
• Build strong working relationships with hiring managers and senior leaders to understand their team's needs and develop recruitment plans that support them
• Serve as a knowledgeable resource on market trends, talent availability, and sourcing strategies — sharing what you know to help teams make informed decisions
• Design structured, role-specific interview plans and scorecards; champion inclusive hiring practices and ensure consistent, equitable evaluation across interview panels
• Build and maintain proactive candidate pipelines for near-term and future hiring needs
• Represent KAYAK authentically to candidates, delivering an outstanding experience at every stage of the process
• Collaborate closely with your TA teammates across time zones, contributing to a team culture built on trust, flexibility, and shared success

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including meaningful in-house or client-embedded experience in a global or multi-site environment
• Proficiency in Ashby (our ATS) & LinkedIn Recruiter
• A solid understanding of sourcing strategies and how to run an equitable, structured hiring process
• The ability to manage your own workload and adapt when priorities shift — you're comfortable working independently without a lot of direction
• Clear, thoughtful communication with both candidates and internal teams; you're at ease working across time zones and with distributed colleagues
• The ability to use data to track your work, spot patterns, and improve processes over time

Qualifications

• Comfort using data to track your work, spot patterns, and improve processes over time

Skills

• Clear, thoughtful communication with both candidates and internal teams
• Ability to work independently without a lot of direction
• Comfort working across time zones and with distributed colleagues
• Use of data to track your work, spot patterns, and improve processes over time

Benefits and Perks

• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Free lunch 2 days per week
• Monthly social events, Thursday happy hours

Pay

The range for this Massachusetts-based role is $50-57.00/hour.

Schedule

This role will be required to work from the Cambridge, Massachusetts office 3 days per week.