Talent Lead, Americas

Halter

$90K — $130K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in talent acquisition, preferably in high growth or global tech.
  • Experience leading recruitment teams, setting standards, and managing performance.
  • Track record in recruiting across various disciplines and regions, especially technical fields.
  • Strategic business partner, capable of engaging at both executive and operational levels.
  • Proven success in high-volume recruitment while maintaining candidate experience.
  • Expertise in proactive sourcing and global talent markets.
  • Strong analytical skills with a focus on data-driven decision making.
  • High emotional intelligence and effective communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of Recruiters for the Americas region, ensuring high performance and career growth.
  • Own recruitment processes and strategies to maintain high-quality hiring outcomes across functions.
  • Collaborate with leadership on workforce planning and capacity modeling for growth.
  • Advise hiring leaders on talent needs, success profiles, and data-driven hiring.
  • Design scalable recruitment processes to handle increasing volume efficiently.
  • Upskill hiring managers through coaching and training to enhance interview quality.
  • Shape Halter's Employee Value Proposition to align with employee experiences.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence global recruitment strategy in a fast-growing company.
  • High-trust culture with flexibility in work arrangements.
  • Dynamic office culture emphasizing in-person connections for personal and professional growth.
  • Supportive team environment focused on continuous improvement and learning.
  • Chance to represent Halter and strengthen the company's employer brand.
Full Job Description
About the role

As a key member of the Talent leadership team, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering Halter's global recruitment strategy as we scale rapidly across new and existing markets.

Reporting into the Head of Talent, you'll lead a growing team, providing direction, coaching, and support to ensure we consistently hire exceptional people who raise the bar and align deeply with our mission and values. You'll balance hands on recruitment delivery with team leadership, strategic planning, and continuous improvement of our recruitment engine.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys operating at a systems and leadership level, thrives in high-growth environments, and wants to have a meaningful influence on how a company scales, through thoughtful strategy, strong teams, and disciplined execution.

What Your Day Will Look Like
  • Lead and develop a team of Recruiters across our Customer and Go To Market portfolio across North and South America, you'll set clear expectations, coach for performance, and support career growth.
  • Own recruitment delivery across different portfolios and functions, while ensuring the wider team delivers consistently high-quality hiring outcomes.
  • Partner closely with the Head of Talent on recruitment strategy, workforce planning, and capacity modelling to support near and long term growth.
  • Act as a senior partner to hiring leaders, helping them anticipate talent needs, define success profiles, and make strong, data informed hiring decisions.
  • Design and evolve scalable recruitment processes, tools, and ways of working that support increasing volume without sacrificing quality.
  • Upskill and enable hiring managers through structured coaching, training sessions, and real-time feedback to lift interview quality and assessment rigour.
  • Help shape and refine Halter's Employee Value Proposition, ensuring our external talent story reflects the real employee experience.
  • Embed inclusive hiring practices across the team, supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in both process and outcomes.
  • Represent Halter externally as a talent ambassador, at events, industry forums, and universities - strengthening our employer brand.
  • Track, analyse, and share key recruitment metrics to continuously improve performance.
  • Support internal mobility and long-term talent planning initiatives as the business matures.
  • As a fast-moving growth company, you'll also jump into new challenges and projects as they arise - helping shape how we scale.
Who are we looking for?
  • 8+ years of experience in talent acquisition, ideally within high growth or global tech environments.
  • Proven experience leading and developing a team, including setting standards, managing performance, and scaling team capability.
  • Strong track record recruiting across multiple disciplines and regions (experience with software, hardware, or deeply technical roles is highly valued).
  • A strategic business partner who can operate at multiple levels, from executive discussions and planning through to hands-on hiring execution.
  • Demonstrated success delivering high-volume hiring without compromising on quality or candidate experience.
  • Deep expertise in proactive sourcing strategies and global talent markets.
  • Strong data and reporting capability; comfortable using metrics to guide decisions and improve outcomes.
  • High emotional intelligence, excellent communication skills, and a calm, solutions-focused approach in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
  • A natural owner, someone who takes accountability, builds trust quickly, and genuinely cares about doing recruitment exceptionally well.


Our Office First Approach

There's a reason you visit your friends in person, live with your family and don't do dinners over Zoom. Humans are wired for connection. We believe a world-class, in-person office culture is the best way for high-performing teams.

Being office first is a core pillar of our culture. We believe in-person connections are key to driving your own growth, learning, impact, and building genuine long-lasting relationships. Strong relationships make it easier to disagree, give feedback, and do meaningful and aligned work. We don't like having heaps of rules or policies, but this means having strong, trusted relationships is critical.

We're office first, not office only. This means working from the office everyday is our default setting, but we flex when we need to. We have a high-trust culture, so everyone is trusted to do what's best for Halter.

Our office vibe is something special, it's hard to describe until you're here, but people at Halter who have come from fully remote or hybrid companies say they could never go back - the high energy and spectacular people they are now surrounded by everyday makes work so enjoyable. Your growth, your learning and your impact is truly unlimited here, and a big part of that comes from being together solving problems, innovating, building context, and constantly learning from each other.

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