Global Talent Acquisition Leader — Hybrid & Growth

First Focus; Perth; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

Flexible leave options

10 paid study days per year

Exam fees paid

FastTrack mentoring program

Inter-office travel program

MAD Council supporting equality,charit

Job summary

First Focus is seeking a high-impact Head of Talent Acquisition to own recruitment across Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. You’ll shape the TA strategy, lead a geographically distributed team and stay hands-on for senior technical hires to fuel our growth.

You’ll drive AI-enabled processes, partner with executives and hiring managers, and build sustainable pipelines while continuously improving employer brand and recruitment performance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading an internal Talent Acquisition function, ideally within technology.
• Experience developing and executing a company-wide TA strategy.
• Strong leadership skills, including managing geographically dispersed teams.
• Track record of finding and recruiting complex, specialist and hard-to-find talent.
• Excellent stakeholder management and the ability to partner with senior executives.
• Strong direct sourcing capability.
• Commercial, data-driven approach to recruitment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement our Talent Acquisition strategy.
• Own recruitment processes, technology, reporting, candidate experience, employer brand and overall recruitment performance.
• Lead, coach and develop our technology-focused TA team across Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.
• Partner with executives and hiring managers to understand and translate their needs.
• Stay hands-on with senior technical, specialist, sales and difficult-to-fill roles.
• Build sustainable talent pipelines so vacancies don’t stall from panic.
• Review and improve our sourcing channels, recruitment tech, processes and data.
• Trial, adopt and use AI and automation where it improves speed and quality.
• Create consistency across multiple markets without assuming identical conditions.
• Improve our Employer Value Proposition and First Focus story to candidates.
• Establish useful TA metrics to drive quality, speed and effectiveness.
• Challenge hiring processes when unclear or overly complex.
• Collaborate with the Talent Director and US-based parent company.

Skills

Talent acquisition leadership

Strategy development

Stakeholder management

Sourcing expertise

Data-driven recruitment

Tools

ATS / Recruitment tech

Job description

First Focus is seeking a high-impact Head of Talent Acquisition to own recruitment across Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. You’ll shape the TA strategy, lead a geographically distributed team and stay hands-on for senior technical hires to fuel our growth.

You’ll drive AI-enabled processes, partner with executives and hiring managers, and build sustainable pipelines while continuously improving employer brand and recruitment performance.