Head of People – Talent

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +5 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take charge of BrandBastion's worldwide recruitment strategy and hiring processes, encompassing workforce planning, sourcing, assessment, offers, and onboarding.

• Collaborate with the CEO and functional leaders to pinpoint talent requirements and outline necessary skills and capabilities.

• Lead the recruitment efforts for strategic and senior roles, including sourcing, interviewing, and successfully closing candidates.

• Create talent pipelines across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, AI, Marketing, and Operations.

• Develop structured interviews, assessments, scorecards, and reference-checking methodologies.

• Enhance sourcing and candidate evaluation through AI, automation, data, and contemporary recruiting tools.

• Provide guidance to the CEO and leadership team regarding organizational design, leadership capabilities, succession planning, and team effectiveness.

• Identify organizational deficiencies and propose hiring, development, or structural solutions.

• Create scalable people processes for a globally distributed workforce, taking into account various countries, employment models, and time zones.

• Manage international employment arrangements involving direct employment, EOR solutions, and independent contractors.

• Supervise employee lifecycle processes, including contracts, onboarding, performance management, role transitions, and offboarding.

• Collaborate with local legal, payroll, and employment specialists to ensure compliant operations.

• Design and sustain competitive compensation frameworks across international markets.

• Partner in salary benchmarking, incentive plans, commission structures, and performance-based compensation.

• Establish frameworks for performance reviews, career development, promotions, and compensation adjustments.

• Develop onboarding and employee experience practices that foster productivity, connection, retention, and engagement.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in talent acquisition, people operations, and/or people leadership, preferably in a high-growth SaaS or technology environment.

• Proven success in personally recruiting outstanding talent, including senior and challenging roles.

• Experience functioning as a strategic partner to founders, CEOs, or executive leadership teams.

• Significant experience working with internationally distributed teams across various employment jurisdictions.

• Knowledge of EOR providers, international contractors, and direct employment arrangements.

• Experience in designing or enhancing compensation structures, recruitment processes, performance frameworks, and onboarding programs.

• Strong commercial acumen and an understanding of how people decisions impact business performance.

• Exceptional interpersonal abilities, capable of challenging, influencing, and advising senior leadership.

• Highly proactive, resourceful, and hands-on approach.

• Comfortable working with modern HR and recruiting technologies, including AI-powered tools and automation.

• Excellent proficiency in written and spoken English.

• A CV or LinkedIn profile along with a brief example of how you have personally improved a company's ability to attract, hire, or retain exceptional talent.

🏝️ Benefits

• Direct impact: Collaborate closely with the CEO and leadership team, influencing some of the company’s most crucial decisions.

• Real ownership: Shape and steer our global people and talent strategy instead of merely executing existing processes.

• International scope: Work alongside talented colleagues from diverse countries, cultures, and functions.

• AI-driven innovation: Join a profitable, expanding SaaS company at the forefront of AI-enabled social media engagement.

• Remote-first flexibility: Work from Europe or Canada as part of an internationally distributed team.

• Opportunity to build: Help define our next growth chapter and develop a people function capable of scaling with the company.