Head of People & Talent

Location: Remote from Europe or Canada preferred; other listed locations include Finland, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Estonia, and Poland.

Company

hirify.global is a profitable, international SaaS business providing an AI-powered social media engagement and brand safety platform for global brands.

What you will do

• Own global recruitment strategy and processes from workforce planning through sourcing, assessment, offers, and onboarding.
• Personally recruit for strategic and senior roles and build talent pipelines across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, AI, Marketing, and Operations.
• Advise the CEO and leadership team on organizational design, succession planning, team composition, leadership capabilities, and performance.
• Build scalable international people operations across employment jurisdictions, time zones, direct employment, EOR arrangements, and independent contractors.
• Design compensation, incentive, performance, career development, promotion, and onboarding frameworks.
• Improve employee experience, engagement, manager effectiveness, retention, and distributed-team culture.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience spanning talent acquisition, people operations, and/or people leadership, ideally in a high-growth SaaS or technology business.
• Strong record of personally recruiting exceptional talent, including senior and hard-to-fill roles.
• Experience partnering strategically with founders, CEOs, or executive leadership teams.
• Meaningful experience with internationally distributed teams across multiple employment jurisdictions.
• Familiarity with EOR providers, international contractors, and direct employees.
• Experience designing or improving compensation structures, recruitment processes, performance frameworks, and onboarding programs.
• Strong commercial judgment and understanding of how people decisions affect business performance.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with confidence to challenge, influence, and advise senior leaders.
• Proactive, resourceful, hands-on approach with ownership of execution; comfort with modern HR and recruiting technology, including AI-powered tools and automation.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Built or significantly improved the talent and people function at a fast-growing international company.
• Started in recruitment or talent acquisition and expanded into broader people leadership.
• Worked in a globally distributed, remote-first company.
• Experience in an entrepreneurial environment and strong commitment to hiring exceptional people.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct impact through close collaboration with the CEO and leadership team.
• Ownership of the global people and talent strategy and the opportunity to build a scalable people function.
• International scope across multiple countries, cultures, and functions.
• Remote-first flexibility from Europe or Canada within an internationally distributed team.
• Opportunity to contribute to a profitable, growing SaaS business focused on AI-powered social media engagement.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV or LinkedIn profile.
• Include a brief example of personally helping a company improve its ability to attract, hire, or retain exceptional people.