Global Talent Acquisition Director

Copado; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance-based bonuses

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid Time Off

Wellness Perks

Job summary

Copado is seeking a Director, Talent Acquisition to lead our global recruiting function. This hands-on leadership role builds and coaches a high-performing recruiting team while staying close enough to the work to jump into critical searches, collaborate with hiring managers, and solve sourcing challenges in competitive markets.

You’ll own the strategy behind attracting, evaluating, and hiring talent across technical, GTM, and corporate functions, partnering with Total Rewards and People Ops on

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including 3+ years leading a recruiting team, ideally in a high-growth B2B SaaS or PE/VC-backed environment.
• Track record hiring across both technical and go-to-market functions, including hard-to-fill or specialized roles.
• Experience building or scaling recruiting in new geographic markets.
• Strong compensation and market-data fluency; comfortable benchmarking across multiple regions.
• Experience partnering with an ATS (Rippling, Greenhouse, Lever, or similar) and comfort working closely with a TA Ops/systems counterpart rather than owning that infrastructure directly
• Executive presence - able to run confidential searches and advise hiring managers and executives directly
• A bias toward building scalable process without losing the human/candidate-experience side of recruiting

Responsibilities

• Own Copado’s end-to-end talent acquisition strategy, aligned to annual headcount plans and board-level growth targets
• Build, manage, and develop a team of recruiters; set clear goals, coach on pipeline quality, and create career pathing within the team
• Lead Employer Branding and build talent pipelines centered around New Orleans
• Personally own or closely oversee recruiting for executive and other high-priority/confidential searches
• Drive sourcing strategy for hard-to-fill technical roles (Product Management, DevOps & AI engineering, etc.) and GTM roles
• Define Copado’s campus recruiting strategy, including target schools/markets and headcount allocation across the intern class
• Own TA KPIs: time-to-fill, offer-accept rate, source-of-hire mix, cost-per-hire, diversity pipeline metrics, hiring manager satisfaction
• Continuously improve recruiting process, interview design, and scorecards in partnership with Talent Acquisition Ops
• Evaluate and manage external vendor relationships (contractors, agencies, sourcing tools) as capacity needs dictate
• Serve as a trusted talent advisor to senior business leaders, building partnerships to align recruiting strategies with growth
• Serve as a key member of the People Leadership Team, partnering with People Ops and People Development to deliver an integrated People strategy
• Help translate annual People Team priorities into shared outcomes, ensuring our approach to attracting, developing, and supporting talent is connected across the employee lifecycle

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

People leadership

Tech & GTM hiring

Market data fluency

ATS familiarity

Executive search

Geographic expansion

Job description

Copado is seeking a Director, Talent Acquisition to lead our global recruiting function. This hands-on leadership role builds and coaches a high-performing recruiting team while staying close enough to the work to jump into critical searches, collaborate with hiring managers, and solve sourcing challenges in competitive markets.

You’ll own the strategy behind attracting, evaluating, and hiring talent across technical, GTM, and corporate functions, partnering with Total Rewards and People Ops on