Head of Talent Acquisition

Head of Talent Acquisition Location: San Francisco (Hybrid) Salary: $200,000 - $230,000 base | 15% bonus target | 100,000 stock options

The Opportunity The Leadership Collective is partnering with a global ad tech business to find a Head of Talent Acquisition to lead their global recruiting function. This is a senior hire for a lean, high-performing team that punches well above its weight.

If you're a commercially-minded TA leader who's built and run recruiting in a fast-moving technology environment and knows how to get the best out of a small team without a big support function around you, this could be a strong fit.

The Role Reporting into the VP of People, you'll lead a team of four recruiters and a recruiting coordinator across the US, Europe, and India. This is a hands-on leadership role - you'll be expected to own recruiting operations end to end, act as a genuine business partner to senior and executive stakeholders, and think ahead of the business rather than just respond to it.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading a globally distributed TA team across the US, Europe, and India
• Acting as a strategic talent advisor to the executive team, building pipelines ahead of demand
• Owning recruiting operations including ATS management, offer templates, compliance across jurisdictions, and system integrations
• Driving smarter compensation decisions across the team, hiring to value rather than defaulting to budget midpoint
• Owning and improving employer brand including Glassdoor presence and candidate experience
• Managing specialist and executive search partners for niche and senior hires
• Staying close to market trends, particularly within ad tech and the broader tech sector

What We're Looking For

• 8 to 10 years of talent acquisition experience within a technology business
• Exposure to ad tech, DSP, or programmatic environments is a strong advantage
• Comfortable in a scrappy, startup-style environment where you own the full picture
• Strong commercial instincts - you think about hiring in terms of business impact
• Experience managing a recruiting team, or a clear readiness to step into that responsibility
• Able to operate without a large support function - you build and fix things yourself
• Strong stakeholder management up to C-suite level

About The Leadership Collective The Leadership Collective is a free global peer community for founders and senior leaders, powered by Launch Global. Through Launch Global's embedded growth and talent acquisition expertise, we partner with ambitious organisations to find and place the senior talent that moves the needle. This search is one of a number of retained and exclusive assignments we manage globally across technology, growth, and people functions.

• Interested? This search is being managed exclusively by The Leadership Collective. To be considered, please apply directly.