Talent Acquisition Team Lead

Description:

We are looking for a strategic and highly hands-on leader to lead our recruitment team and drive our global hiring efforts. This is a "player-coach" role where you will not only manage the team but actively source and recruit for key positions.you will bridge the gap between business objectives and talent acquisition, ensuring we scale effectively while maintaining a high bar for excellence, positive growth ROI and state- of - the- art innovation in leveraging our hiring processes and experience.

We need a proactive self-starter who is a creative problem solver, highly adaptable, and open to continuous changes in a fast-paced environment. You must possess a strong executive presence, allowing you to effectively partner with senior leadership. You are expected to work quickly and accurately, bringing a highly technical mindset and an excellent understanding of data to drive our recruitment forward.

We work in a hybrid mode!

Key Responsibilities

• Actively manage full-cycle recruitment for specialized and niche technical roles, demonstrating a strong hands-on approach to ensure a high-quality candidate experience 
• Lead and mentor a team of TA & HR Associates, providing professional guidance, performance feedback, and career development support.
• Partner with executives and senior hiring managers as a confident, trusted advisor to conduct workforce future planning and align hiring priorities with departmental roadmaps
• Develop and execute global recruitment strategies to support rapid organizational growth across multiple regions.
• Initiate, implement and optimize AI-driven recruitment tools and automated workflows that best serve Alice’s hiring needs and its cross - business collaboration with stakeholders.
• Drive employer branding initiatives to position the company as a top-tier employer in the global technology market.
• Apply your technical data expertise to quickly and accurately analyze recruitment data and KPIs to identify bottlenecks and provide actionable insights to leadership. 
• Lead the hiring-to-onboarding processes and actionable insights with the team, tying the hiring decisions with an effective and successful onboarding experience in the first 90 days that sets up the new joiners for success long-term.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a leadership or team management role within a talent acquisition department.
• 5+ years of full-cycle recruitment experience gained within a global technology organization with a proven willingness and ability to remain deeply hands-on
• Strong Executive Presence: Confident, stable, and capable of challenging and guiding C-level executives and senior management with excellent professional expertise.
• Highly Technical & Data-Driven: Deep understanding of data analytics, with the ability to build metrics, read dashboards, and translate numbers into fast, accurate, and actionable decisions
• Proven track record of working in a fast-paced startup or high-growth technology environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing international hiring processes and navigating diverse labor markets.
• Proficiency in using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and modern sourcing and AI tools.
• Previous experience managing local and global employer branding campaigns or events.
• Previous experience leading an annual TA budget.
• Creative and out-of-the-box thinker, drive for constant improvement and success, and exceptional critical thinking skills.  

Nice-to-Have

• Experience implementing data-driven recruitment methodologies or advanced HR analytics.

• Familiarity with legal and compliance requirements for hiring in multiple international jurisdictions.

• Experience with planning long-term employer branding plans beyond the prioritised open position, researching new sourcing and top-of-the-funnel sources, and strategizing how to best position Alice amongst potential candidates globally. 

• Experience with a design thinking approach on how to unlock issues and best resolve them strategically and practically.

Alice is a trust, safety, and security company built for the AI era. We safeguard the communicative technologies people use to create, collaborate, and interact—whether with each other or with machines.

In a world where AI has fundamentally changed the nature of risk, Alice provides end-to-end coverage across the entire AI lifecycle. We support frontier model labs, enterprises, and UGC platforms with a comprehensive suite of solutions: from model hardening evaluations and pre-deployment red-teaming to runtime guardrails and ongoing drift detection.