Global VP, Talent Acquisition

Sidetrade; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sidetrade in London, United Kingdom, seeks a Global VP of Talent Acquisition to design and lead an AI-native, data-driven TA function across North America, Europe, and APAC. You will partner with the CEO and executive team to attract, hire, and onboard top talent at all levels, from AI experts to go-to-market leaders, ensuring scalable, candidate-centric hiring.

This role requires 10+ years in TA with 5+ years in senior leadership, proven C-level hiring, and hands-on execution in fast-growing

Qualifications

• 10+ years in talent acquisition.
• 5+ years in senior TA leadership (VP/Head of TA).
• Experience in SaaS or high-growth AI company.
• Global TA across regions (US, Europe).
• Proven in hiring C-level roles.
• Hands-on with strategic, big-picture thinking.
• Experience leading distributed, cross-cultural teams.
• Strong ability to convince and motivate C-level candidates.
• Analytical mindset with TA metrics and forecasts.
• Knowledge of modern sourcing strategies, employer branding, and recruiting tech (AI tools, ATS, CRM).
• Excellent stakeholder management with executives.
• Strong understanding of global employment law and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the global TA strategy across regions.
• Build and lead a global TA team with regional leads and recruiters.
• Personally hire senior C-level roles with the CEO.
• Design and improve AI agents for recruiting processes and SLAs.
• Own employer brand and candidate value proposition globally.
• Establish TA metrics and dashboards; report to exec team and board.
• Own ATS and recruiting tech stack; evaluate tools (sourcing, CRM).
• Champion diverse and inclusive hiring across regions.
• Ensure compliance with local labor laws; manage external agencies as needed.
• Own the TA budget including headcount, tooling, agency spend, and branding.
• Advise on org design, market talent trends, and compensation benchmarking.

Skills

Global TA leadership

C-level hiring

SaaS experience

AI recruiting

Cross-cultural teams

Data-driven

Tools

ATS

Recruiting CRM

AI recruiting tools

Job description

AboutSidetrade:

Sidetrade (Euronext Growth: ALBFR.PA) is an AI-native company dedicated to Order-to-Cash (O2C). Its platform combines O2C applications, autonomous AI agents, and Aimie IQ, an intelligent natural-language interface that helps multinationals accelerate their cash generation, all built on SAFE, the Sidetrade Agentic Framework for Enterprise. Sidetrade operates the world's largest proprietary O2C Data Lake, built on $9 trillion in B2B transactions and millions of buying companies. We use this data to train specialized AI models that monitor, analyze, decide, and act autonomously throughout the O2C cycle. Sidetrade supports companies in 85 countries with 450 employees across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific.

We’reproud of our 38 nationalities, and these diverse perspectives drive our innovation, one-team culture, and customer-first mindset.Sidetrade has been positioned as a Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader since 2022. We value passion over perfection. So, if you’reeager to learn and bring great energy, we want to hear from you. Be you. Grow with us.

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Today, we’re looking for our Global VP of Talent Acquisition to build and lead our Ai-native shift and create the dream team for our next stage of growth. This is both a strategic and hands-on leadership challenge for designing a scalable, data-driven talent acquisition function across all regions in the world (North America, Europe, and APAC), all functions and levels -from AI expert to GTM and from Mid-level to Executives. You’ll partner directly with the executive team and hiring managers to ensure we attract, hire, and onboard the talent needed to hit our growth targets, while building a TA function that’s efficient, candidate-centric, and built for scale.

Because it’s instrumental to the strategy, this role will report directly to the CEO.

What you would do:

• Strategy & Leadership: Define and own the global talent acquisition strategy, aligning hiring plans with headcount budgets, business goals, and workforce planning across all regions.
• Team Management: Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global TA team, including regional leads, recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators; set goals, coach performance, and grow internal talent.
• Executive & Leadership Hiring: Personally in charge of hiring senior C-level roles with the CEO.
• Process & Scale: Design and continuously improve AI Agents for recruiting processes, workflows, and SLAs to ensure a consistent, efficient, and high-quality hiring experience.
• Employer Brand: Own the company's employer brand and candidate value proposition globally; partner with Marketing and Comms to strengthen our reputation as an employer of choice.
• Data & Metrics: Establish TA metrics and dashboards (time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, quality-of-hire, pipeline conversion, diversity metrics) and use data to drive decisions and report to the executive team and board.
• Systems & Tools: Own the ATS and recruiting tech stack; evaluate and implement tools (sourcing, assessment, AI-enabled recruiting tools, CRM) to improve efficiency and candidate experience.
• DEI: Champion diverse and inclusive hiring practices globally, ensuring equitable processes across all regions.
• Global & Compliance: Ensure hiring practices comply with local labor laws and regulations across all operating countries; manage relationships with external agencies, RPOs, and immigration/visa partners as needed.
• Budget Ownership: Own the TA budget, including headcount, tooling, agency spend, and employer branding investments.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a strategic advisor to hiring managers and executives on org design, market talent trends, compensation benchmarking, and hiring strategy.

What we are looking for:

• 10+ years in talent acquisition, with 5+ years in a senior TA leadership role (VP, Head of TA, or similar) at a SaaS or high-growth AI company.
• Proven experience building and scaling global TA functions across multiple countries/regions (US, Europe)
• Track record of personally hiring C-Levels
• Experience operating in a mid-size, fast-growing company environment
• Hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves approach balanced with strategic, big-picture thinking.
• Experience managing distributed, cross-cultural teams.
• Natural ability to convince and motivate C-level candidates to join our AI strategy.
• Strong analytical mindset; comfortable building and presenting TA metrics and forecasts to executive leadership and the board.
• Deep knowledge of modern sourcing strategies, employer branding, and recruiting technology (AI Recruiter Agents, ATS, CRM).
• Excellent stakeholder management skills; able to influence and partner with senior executives.
• Strong understanding of global employment law and compliance considerations related to hiring.

Because when you thrive, we all succeed!

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