Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

What you’ll be responsible for:

As the Senior Director, Talent Acquisition you will play a key role partnering directly with Circle’s leadership to hire top talent for their teams. You will develop processes and relationships to understand and anticipate your clients’ needs. You will lead a team of talent acquisition professionals in creatively identifying, engaging and assessing top talent, while improving and contributing to our brand and scaling our recruiting practice as we grow Circle. In addition to driving a culture of continuous improvement and development, you will inspire your team of recruiters to achieve greatness and lead various talent acquisition projects and initiatives to enable us to deliver flawless execution to the business.

What you’ll work on:

• Leading a diverse team of talent acquisition professionals with responsibilities that include hiring, training, and developing
• Providing innovative, high-touch, scalable solutions to drive sourcing, evaluating and closing top talent to meet global objectives.
• Partner with leadership to establish and manage their talent acquisition needs.
• Expand candidate diversity by implementing innovative and creative ways to increase our recruiting funnel. 
• Elevate team performance by managing, mentoring, coaching and developing skills.  
• Collaboratively work with other parts of the Talent (HR) team, finance, legal, etc. 
• Develop a trusted relationship with all global teams that results in a strong business partnership.
• Provide insights and recommendations by using data on recruiting strategies and best practices that contribute to Circle’s vision through effective business partnering, innovation, and execution.
• Deliver an amazing interview & hiring experience to candidates, hiring managers and business leaders.

You will aspire to our four core values:

• Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities.
• Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail.  
• Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals. 
• High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards.  You reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance

What you’ll bring to Circle:

• 15 years of demonstrated success in technology oriented recruiting environments that require significant influencing and partnership across the business to accomplish recruiting goals.
• 10 years of management experience instilling trust and credibility with your team while guiding, developing, coaching, and managing individual and team performance.
• Experience managing recruiting teams and activities for clients spanning Circle’s corporate functions including, but not limited to, Legal, Finance, Sales, Revenue, Marketing, and Talent.
• Experience implementing a wide range of creative and thoughtful talent acquisition strategies and programs in a fast-paced, high-growth technology company.
• Excellent communication skills and an innate ability to motivate and inspire teammates. 
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.