bjakcareer - Lead Recruiter, Business Functions (Global)

• You will play a critical role in shaping the organization by hiring exceptional talent while mentoring junior recruiters and establishing recruiting best practices across the business. • BUSINESS RECRUITMENT LEADERSHIP • Own the end-to-end recruitment process for business and corporate functions globally, including Operations, Finance, Marketing, Creative, HR, Legal, CEO Office, and other key functions. • Partner closely with hiring managers and senior leaders to define hiring priorities, organizational needs, role requirements, and workforce planning strategies. • Act as a trusted talent advisor by providing market intelligence, compensation insights, hiring recommendations, and talent market trends. • Lead recruitment efforts for senior, niche, confidential, and business-critical positions across multiple regions. • Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to attract high-caliber passive candidates in competitive talent markets. • TALENT PIPELINE & MARKET INTELLIGENCE • Build and maintain strong talent pipelines across key business functions to support both current and future hiring needs. • Conduct talent mapping exercises across target companies, industries, and markets. • Develop strong understanding of global labor markets, compensation trends, and talent availability across multiple countries. • TEAM DEVELOPMENT & PROCESS EXCELLENCE • Mentor and support junior recruiters, helping improve sourcing effectiveness, candidate assessment quality, and stakeholder management capabilities. • Establish recruiting best practices, interview calibration standards, sourcing frameworks, and hiring processes across business functions. • Review recruitment performance, pipeline quality, and hiring outcomes to identify opportunities for improvement. • Support the development and scaling of the global Talent Acquisition team. • RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS & REPORTING • Maintain accurate ATS data, candidate records, and recruitment reporting. • Track recruitment metrics including pipeline health, time-to-hire, source effectiveness, offer acceptance rates, and hiring quality. • Ensure a professional, positive, and consistent candidate experience across all recruitment stages. • Support compliance with local labor regulations and recruitment best practices across multiple regions. • THE RIGHT FIT HAS • 5-8 years of full-cycle recruitment experience across multiple business and corporate functions. • Proven success recruiting for functions such as Operations, Finance, Marketing, Creative, HR, Legal, Strategy, Consulting, CEO Office, or other business-critical roles. • Demonstrated ability to hire senior, niche, and difficult-to-fill positions across multiple markets. • Strong expertise in sourcing passive candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, networking, talent mapping, referrals, and other advanced sourcing techniques. • Experience managing multiple high-priority requisitions simultaneously while maintaining quality and speed. • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence hiring decisions and challenge hiring assumptions when necessary. • Experience partnering with senior leaders on hiring strategy, organizational design discussions, and workforce planning initiatives. • Experience mentoring, coaching, or guiding junior recruiters is highly preferred. • Familiarity with global hiring practices, compensation structures, and recruitment across multiple countries. • Strong proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and recruitment analytics. • Excellent communication, project management, and relationship-building skills. • Experience in high-growth technology companies, startups, internet businesses, consulting firms, or fast-scaling organizations is strongly preferred. • WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE • Consistently delivers high-quality hires across multiple business functions and regions. • Builds sustainable talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill business roles. • Becomes a trusted advisor to business leaders and hiring managers. • Improves recruitment efficiency, hiring quality, and candidate experience. • Successfully develops junior recruiters and contributes to building a scalable Talent Acquisition function. • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities, ambitious hiring goals, and a high degree of ownership.