Talent Acquisition Lead

About Us

Founded in 2014, Circles is a global technology company reimagining the telco industry with its SaaS platform - Circles X, helping telco operators launch and operate successful digital brands through its offerings.

Having pioneered a successful blueprint for disrupting the telco space in Singapore, Circles has since launched its own digital telco, Circles.Life, in Singapore, Taiwan and Australia. Circles has also partnered with other telco operators to launch digital services, enabling our partners to accelerate growth and capture market share within a short period of time.

Today, Circles is partnering with operators in 14 countries to deliver delightful digital experiences to millions of people through our businesses.

We are backed by global investors such as Sequoia, Warburg Pincus, EDBI Singapore and Founders Fund – renowned backers of industry-shaking innovators.

Mission of the role

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading talent acquisition strategies and initiatives, and for bringing rockstar candidates on board the Circles.Life team. In addition to executing on your assigned roles, you will also be responsible for managing the entire corporate pipeline for the company, working closely with senior business leaders.

You will act as the PIC for regional hiring across all Circles.Life entities and will play a critical role in shaping the TA team to overachieve on their objectives.

As a Talent Acquisition Lead your key objectives will be to…

• Take ownership of specific areas of talent search and engagement, as well as the end to end talent acquisition process from sourcing to onboarding
• Lead sourcers and onboarding specialists in the project management of a company-wide recruitment timeline, and in meeting defined hiring KPIs and objectives
• Define the vision and goals/KPIs for specific roles based on immediate organizational needs, and design and implement winning sourcing strategies to fill critical positions
• Successfully manage talent searches on a predefined timeline, set benchmarks and metrics, identify bottlenecks, as well as understand how to prioritize in a fast-paced environment, with tight deadlines
• Draw on extensive knowledge of talent acquisition and foster dynamic relationships with business leaders, hiring managers, and People Operations Executives
• Execute and support recruitment and onboarding activities in a timely and effective manner
• Be an active member of the People team; sharing insights on organizational structure, recruitment strategy and work plans with management

We are looking for the following individuals...

• Minimum 7 years of experience in senior recruiting on a regional level. Demonstrated ability to design, implement and leverage talent acquisition to help drive measurable business results.
• Start-up experience and/or exposure in technology companies that are scaling up is crucial
• Experience with new market launches globally is a major advantage
• In-house experience is highly preferred
• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand their department needs and provide support by hiring the best talent.
• Oversee and manage various recruitment channels including LinkedIn Recruiter, online Job Boards, and agencies including tracking and reporting of recruitment pipeline for all positions
• Challenge the status quo by proposing alternate or different ways to do things that will enhance our processes, our efficiency, or the candidate or manager experience.
• Keep abreast on industry trends, innovative recruitment sourcing techniques and local employment laws to ensure compliance to all recruitment guidelines.
• Maintain a growth mindset - at times you may be given the opportunity to contribute to value projects that will stretch you personally.

Benefits

One of Circles.Life's key missions is to build the best place to work and grow. In order to do that, we offer:

• Exponential career growth & ownership - Completely own your own career and determine how fast and in which direction you grow. Being in a hyper-growth environment means having the opportunity for 10x the learning at 10x the speed; watch your role expand as the company expands.
• Impact from Day 1 - Translate idea to action and help us to blaze the trial for innovative products and shake up the telco world, and beyond.
• Talent Mobility - Circles.Lifers are given the opportunity to change roles internally, across functions and/or offices, through multiple structured programs (i.e. internal transfers, job shadowing or job rotation). We've witnessed many successful examples -e.g., from HR lead to Business Development Senior Manager.
• Talent Development - We stand for a culture of continuous learning and growing. Besides structured career development paths and quarterly performance reviews, we offer monthly learning brown bag sessions, manager training and L&D budget to support development of professional interests and efforts.
• Attractive Total Rewards (Salary + Equity) - We offer highly competitive salary and bonus inline with top tier technology companies, and equity for ALL employees (up to 6 months of annual salary worth for top performers). That means, unlimited upside based on company's performance.
  

To all recruitment agencies: Circles.Life will only acknowledge resumes shared by recruitment agencies if selected in our preferred supplier partnership program.

Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Circles.Life employees or any other company location. Circles.Life will not be held accountable for any fees related to unsolicited resumes not uploaded via our ATS.

Circles.Life is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, disability or age.