Pearl Talent - Talent Acquisition Partner (Tech & Creative Focus) I030

AI overview

Own full-cycle recruitment across tech and creative roles while driving high-quality placements and collaborating closely with stakeholders to uphold Pearl's recruitment standards.

Industry

Recruitment / Staffing / B2B Services

Work Arrangement

Fully Remote

Job Type

Full-time

Work Schedule

40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Core hours: 9 AM – 5 PM EST

Locations

Remote (LATAM and PH)

About Pearl Talent:

Pearl works with the top 1% of candidates from around the world and connects them with the best startups in the US and EU. Our clients have raised over $5B in aggregate and are backed by companies like OpenAI, a16z, and Founders Fund. They’re looking for the sharpest, hungriest candidates who they can consistently promote and work with over many years. Candidates we’ve hired have been flown out to the US and EU to work with their clients, and even promoted to roles that match folks onshore in the US.

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Why Work with Us?

At Pearl, we’re not just another recruiting firm—we connect you with exceptional opportunities to work alongside visionary US and EU founders. Our focus is on placing you in roles where you can grow, be challenged, and build long-term, meaningful careers.

Role Overview:

We are hiring a Talent Acquisition Partner (Tech & Creative Focus) to own full-cycle recruitment delivery across technical, creative, and generalist roles. This role is primarily execution-focused (~80% recruitment delivery) with targeted sourcing support (~20%).

You will partner closely with hiring stakeholders to evaluate talent rigorously, drive interviews and offer processes, and ensure each hire meets Pearl’s high standards. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, outcome-driven environment and takes ownership over hiring outcomes across diverse roles.

Your Impact

In this role, you will:

  • Own hiring outcomes across tech, creative, and generalist roles
  • Turn candidate pipelines into consistent, high-quality placements
  • Reduce time-to-hire without sacrificing quality
  • Act as a trusted hiring partner to internal and client stakeholders
  • Uphold Pearl’s recruitment standards, systems, and KPIs

Core Responsibilities (with percentage allocations)

In this role, you will:

  • Own hiring outcomes across tech, creative, and generalist roles
  • Turn candidate pipelines into consistent, high-quality placements
  • Reduce time-to-hire without sacrificing quality
  • Act as a trusted hiring partner to internal and client stakeholders
  • Uphold Pearl’s recruitment standards, systems, and KPIs

Core Responsibilities

Full-Cycle Recruitment Execution – 80%

  • Manage intake, role calibration, candidate screening, interview coordination, and offer closure
  • Ensure multiple active roles are fully vetted and interview-ready before submission
  • Drive hiring outcomes while maintaining Pearl’s quality standards

Tech, Creative & Generalist Role Coverage – 20%

  • Recruit technical roles (Full-Stack, Frontend, Backend, QA)
  • Recruit creative roles (UI/UX, Product, Design)
  • Recruit generalist roles (Executive Assistants, Ops, Admin)
  • Evaluate candidates to match role complexity without lowering standards

Targeted Sourcing Support – 20%

  • Conduct selective sourcing for underperforming pipelines or niche/time-sensitive roles
  • Use sourcing strategically in partnership with Pearl’s automation and systems

Stakeholder Partnership

  • Lead structured intake calls to define success profiles, must-haves, and trade-offs
  • Set clear expectations on timelines and market realities
  • Provide proactive updates and recommendations to stakeholders

Screening, Evaluation & Quality Control

  • Conduct structured recruiter screens assessing role competence, communication, and culture fit
  • Produce high-quality candidate summaries and scorecards
  • Maintain Pearl’s quality bar before candidate endorsement

KPIs, Systems & Process Discipline

  • Own role-level KPIs (hires, time-to-hire, conversion rates, quality)
  • Maintain accurate ATS/CRM data
  • Follow Pearl’s Blueprints, SOPs, Playbooks, and Job Aids
  • Flag risks, bottlenecks, and process gaps proactively

Requirements

Must-Haves (Required)

  • 3+ years of full-cycle recruitment experience
  • Proven experience recruiting technical and creative roles
  • Ability to close generalist roles efficiently
  • Strong screening, evaluation, and offer-closing skills
  • KPI-driven, outcome-oriented mindset
  • Clear, structured communicator with high ownership
  • Experience recruiting for US-based clients
  • Agency or high-performance recruiting background

Nice-to-Haves (Preferred)

  • Experience hiring for US-based startup clients

Tools Proficiency

Must-Haves (Required)

  • ATS / CRM systems (Workable experience a plus), LinkedIn Recruiter, Google Workspace, Notion, Slack

Nice-to-Haves (Preferred)

  • Recruitment automation tools, assessment platforms, analytics or dashboarding tools

Benefits

What You’ll Gain:

  • Monthly performance bonus
  • Fully remote, forever
  • Annual team retreat
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Real-world experience in recruitment marketing and sourcing
  • A behind-the-scenes look at how we connect people with opportunities
  • A supportive team that values your growth and ideas

Ready to Join Us?
If you’re hungry to lead, build, and scale—and you’ve done it before—then this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. Apply now and help us build the world’s best recruitment team!

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Annual team retreat: Annual team retreat
  • Paid Time Off: Unlimited PTO
  • Remote-Friendly: Fully remote, forever

Pearl Talent is a US-based start-up that helps the top 1% of talent worldwide land long-term roles at fast-growing companies in the US and EU. Founded by Monty Ngan and Isaac Kassab, Pearl Talent helps operators all around the Philippines, Latin America, and South Africa get staffed into companies backed by Y Combinator, Sequoia, a16z, General Catalyst, and more.We believe that even though opportunity isn’t created equal in the world, ambitious talent is.

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