Director of Talent Acquisition

About the Role

Our client is scaling globally and needs a proven Talent Acquisition leader who can build a disciplined, ethical, and compliant hiring engine. This role owns global recruiting strategy, governance frameworks, and operational excellence, ensuring every hire meets business needs, legal standards, and cultural expectations.

If you thrive at the intersection of growth, structure, international compliance, and leadership- this is your field.

What You’ll Lead

• Own and evolve our client’s global talent acquisition strategy, supporting multi-country hiring needs across technical, commercial, and corporate functions.
• Build governance frameworks that ensure consistency, documentation rigor, candidate eligibility validation, data integrity, and policy adherence.
• Oversee compliance with U.S., Canadian, UK, EU, and international employment, immigration, privacy, and recruiting regulations.
• Establish standardized process controls across requisition approvals, job postings, assessments, background checks, onboarding, and reporting.
• Partner with Legal, HR, Finance, and Regional Leaders to ensure compliant and efficient hiring practices in every geography.
• Develop recruiting performance dashboards,  time to fill, funnel conversion, quality-of-hire, diversity progress, compliance audit readiness.
• Manage, mentor, and scale an internal TA team and external vendor relationships.
• Champion a consistent employer brand and candidate experience across all markets.
• Support return-to-office hiring strategy and location-based workforce planning.
• Drive continuous improvement, tools, workflows, documentation, scorecards, interview training, and hiring manager education.

Requirements

What You Bring

• 10+ years of progressive recruiting experience, including at least 4 years leading an enterprise/global TA function.
• Proven success hiring across multiple countries and navigating international employment regulations, data privacy laws (GDPR, PIPEDA), immigration/work authorization, and labor standards.
• Experience implementing recruiting governance- policies, audit trails, documentation, compliance reporting, interview standards.
• Skilled in designing scalable TA systems, processes, workflows, and technology stack strategy.
• Executive presence- comfortable partnering with C-Suite and influencing decisions.
• Analytical mindset- uses data to inform forecasting, prioritization, and performance.
• Ability to lead through change, ambiguity, and fast growth without losing quality or compliance.
• High integrity -protects the business, the candidate, and the brand.

Success Looks Like

• Hiring decisions are documented, compliant, consistent, and defensible.
• International hiring becomes predictable, not stressful.
• TA team and hiring managers follow the same playbook.
• Audit? No sweat -everything’s organized.
• Workforce planning aligns with office strategy and business goals.
• Recruiting is efficient, transparent, and respected across the organization.

Benefits

This is a full-time position with corporate benefits.