Global Talent Acquisition Leader

Paymentology; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Paymentology is seeking a global Talent Acquisition leader to define and execute the company’s worldwide recruiting strategy, partnering with executives to build scalable operating models and lead a small team across markets.

You will drive recruitment excellence, elevate interview practices, and ensure high standards while balancing business needs with market realities, delivering impact at global scale.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Talent Acquisition, including at least 5 years in leadership roles with responsibility for TA strategy, team performance and recruitment effectiveness.
• Experience operating in a globally distributed organisation, ideally within SaaS, technology infrastructure or a similarly complex environment.
• Proven ability to define and execute a global Talent Acquisition strategy, aligning hiring priorities and recruitment capabilities with business objectives and workforce plans.
• Strong commercial acumen and strategic judgement, with the ability to balance business priorities, hiring demand, recruitment capacity, budget considerations and talent-market realities.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to advise and constructively challenge C-suite executives and senior business leaders.
• Deep recruitment expertise, with a proven ability to establish and uphold high hiring standards, drive structured and evidence-based assessment, and improve the quality of hiring decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop high-performing Talent Acquisition teams, building accountability, empowering others and developing their capability to operate as strategic business partners.
• Strong analytical capabilities, using recruitment data, performance metrics and talent-market intelligence to inform decisions, identify risks and drive continuous improvement.
• Experience designing and evolving scalable recruitment operating models, processes and governance, with the ability to lead change and drive adoption across the organisation.
• Strong understanding of modern recruitment technology, ATS platforms, automation and AI, with the ability to leverage these to improve hiring quality, efficiency and candidate experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead Paymentology’s global Talent Acquisition strategy, aligning recruitment priorities with business objectives and approved workforce plans.
• Partner with the Executive Team, functional leaders and Finance to understand workforce requirements and recommended hiring priorities.
• Anticipate talent-market challenges and provide strategic insights that support informed workforce decisions.
• Evolve the TA operating model to be scalable, efficient and commercially focused.
• Set high hiring standards, ensuring evidence-based decisions and consistent hiring practices.
• Lead, coach and develop a global TA team comprising three TA Partners and a TA Operations role.
• Empower TA Partners to own recruitment within their functions and influence senior stakeholders.
• Oversee TA Operations systems, processes, governance and reporting for effective delivery.
• Advise the CPO and Executive Team on hiring priorities and talent-market dynamics.
• Drive adoption of modern recruitment technology, AI and automation to improve quality and efficiency.
• Define and lead the global talent attraction strategy in priority markets.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Data-driven recruiting

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business

Tools

ATS platforms

Automation/AI in recruiting

Ashby experience

Job description

Paymentology is seeking a global Talent Acquisition leader to define and execute the company’s worldwide recruiting strategy, partnering with executives to build scalable operating models and lead a small team across markets.

You will drive recruitment excellence, elevate interview practices, and ensure high standards while balancing business needs with market realities, delivering impact at global scale.