What you'll be responsible for:As a Lead Talent Acquisition Partner, you will own full-cycle recruiting for high-priority Finance and core business searches and serve as a strategic hiring partner to Finance leaders, HRBPs, FP&A, Legal, Total Rewards, and Talent Operations. This role requires strong recruiting judgment, disciplined process ownership, and comfort operating in complex approval environments. The successful candidate must have hands-on experience building agentic AI bots or workflow agents, and must have used Skills with Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex to improve recruiting, sourcing, process documentation, candidate evaluation, stakeholder communication, or TA operations.
What you'll work on:- Own full-cycle recruiting for Finance roles, including intake, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, interview process management, offer strategy, and close.
- Serve as the Talent Acquisition subject matter expert for Finance hiring, including approval paths, stakeholder preferences, leveling considerations, offer mechanics, internal candidate handling, geo/entity constraints, and hiring process risk.
- Build trusted partnerships with Finance leaders and cross-functional partners by bringing clear recommendations, not just open questions.
- Maintain accurate, current, and auditable recruiting records in Workday, ModernLoop, Gem, and other designated TA systems.
- Partner closely with Total Rewards, FP&A, Legal, HRBPs, and Talent Operations to ensure offers and hiring decisions are aligned to budget, policy, approvals, and internal equity.
- Use structured decision-making to identify risk, tradeoffs, downstream impact, and required approvals before action is taken.
- Deliver a high-quality candidate and hiring manager experience while maintaining strong process control.
- Build, test, and improve agentic AI bots or workflow agents that support TA work, such as sourcing research, intake preparation, candidate summaries, interview-plan drafting, offer-process checklists, hiring-manager updates, or system hygiene checks.
- Use Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex Skills to create repeatable recruiting workflows, document processes, improve stakeholder communication, and reduce manual operational drag.
- Participate in broader TA initiatives that improve recruiting quality, speed, governance, and AI-enabled operating leverage.
What you'll bring to Circle:- 7+ years of in-house recruiting experience, with demonstrated success owning the full recruiting lifecycle for complex business, Finance, G&A, or corporate functions.
- Proven ability to operate as a consultative partner to senior hiring leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Hands-on experience building agentic AI bots, workflow agents, or practical AI automations that improved a business process.
- Direct experience using Skills in Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex for repeatable workflows, structured outputs, process automation, or operational documentation.
- Strong command of Workday and modern recruiting systems; experience with ModernLoop, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, Google Workspace, Slack, and MacOS preferred.
- Excellent judgment in sensitive hiring matters, including offers, internal candidates, exceptions, compensation alignment, stakeholder escalation, and candidate communications.
- Ability to separate facts from assumptions, communicate clearly, and escalate with a recommendation when risk or approval ambiguity exists.
- High attention to detail and strong system hygiene; you treat recruiting systems as source-of-truth infrastructure, not administrative cleanup.
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to produce concise, executive-ready updates.
- High integrity, strong ownership, and sound judgment in a fast-moving, highly regulated environment.
- Bachelor's degree required
Preferred experience
- Experience recruiting for Finance, Accounting, Treasury, FP&A, Audit, Tax, or related functions.
- Experience hiring in global markets, including entity, EOR, immigration, or jurisdiction-specific hiring considerations.
- Experience creating AI-enabled recruiting playbooks, prompts, Skills, agents, or operating procedures.
- Familiarity with responsible AI usage in hiring, including human oversight, consistency, fairness, and compliance-sensitive process design.
Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages.
Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.
Base Pay Range: $140,000 - $185,000
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