Strategy & Leadership: Define and own the global talent acquisition strategy, aligning hiring plans with headcount budgets, business goals, and workforce planning across all regions.
Team Management: Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global TA team, including regional leads, recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators; set goals, coach performance, and grow internal talent.
Executive & Leadership Hiring: Personally in charge of hiring senior C-level roles with the CEO.
Process & Scale: Design and continuously improve AI Agents for recruiting processes, workflows, and SLAs to ensure a consistent, efficient, and high-quality hiring experience.
Employer Brand: Own the company's employer brand and candidate value proposition globally; partner with Marketing and Comms to strengthen our reputation as an employer of choice.
Data & Metrics: Establish TA metrics and dashboards (time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, quality-of-hire, pipeline conversion, diversity metrics) and use data to drive decisions and report to the executive team and board.
Systems & Tools: Own the ATS and recruiting tech stack; evaluate and implement tools (sourcing, assessment, AI-enabled recruiting tools, CRM) to improve efficiency and candidate experience.
DEI: Champion diverse and inclusive hiring practices globally, ensuring equitable processes across all regions.
Global & Compliance: Ensure hiring practices comply with local labor laws and regulations across all operating countries; manage relationships with external agencies, RPOs, and immigration/visa partners as needed.
Budget Ownership: Own the TA budget, including headcount, tooling, agency spend, and employer branding investments.
Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a strategic advisor to hiring managers and executives on org design, market talent trends, compensation benchmarking, and hiring strategy.

10+ years in talent acquisition, with 5+ years in a senior TA leadership role (VP, Head of TA, or similar) at a SaaS or high-growth AI company.
Proven experience building and scaling global TA functions across multiple countries/regions (US, Europe)
Track record of personally hiring C-Levels
Experience operating in a mid-size, fast-growing company environment
Hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves approach balanced with strategic, big-picture thinking.
Experience managing distributed, cross-cultural teams.
Natural ability to convince and motivate C-Level candidates to join our AI strategy.
Strong analytical mindset; comfortable building and presenting TA metrics and forecasts to executive leadership and the board.
Deep knowledge of modern sourcing strategies, employer branding, and recruiting technology (AI Recruiter Agents, ATS, CRM).
Excellent stakeholder management skills; able to influence and partner with senior executives.
Strong understanding of global employment law and compliance considerations related to hiring.

Sidetrade (Euronext Growth: ALBFR.PA) is an AI-native company dedicated to Order-to-Cash (O2C). Its platform combines O2C applications, autonomous AI agents, and Aimie IQ, an intelligent natural-language interface that helps multinationals accelerate their cash generation, all built on SAFE, the Sidetrade Agentic Framework for Enterprise. Sidetrade operates the world's largest proprietary O2C Data Lake, built on $9 trillion in B2B transactions and millions of buying companies. We use this data to train specialized AI models that monitor, analyze, decide, and act autonomously throughout the O2C cycle. Sidetrade supports companies in 85 countries with 450 employees across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific.

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