Head of Talent Acquisition (Fintech)

Location: Fully remote, open to candidates based in Poland, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, Czech Republic, Portugal, Croatia, or Spain.

Company

hirify.global powers card issuing for banks, fintechs, and digital brands globally, helping advance payment services through technology.

What you will do

• Define and lead the global Talent Acquisition strategy, aligning hiring priorities with business objectives, workforce plans, budgets, and future capability needs.
• Advise the Executive Team, functional leaders, Finance, and the Chief People Officer on workforce requirements, market conditions, hiring risks, and critical appointments.
• Lead, coach, and develop three TA Partners and a TA Operations role, building accountability, collaboration, and strategic partnering capability.
• Set and maintain structured, evidence-based hiring standards, assessment practices, interview quality, decision-making expectations, and candidate experience standards.
• Oversee recruitment processes, systems, governance, operating models, reporting, and performance metrics to ensure scalable and compliant delivery.
• Advance talent attraction and the use of recruitment technology, ATS platforms, automation, AI, data, and market intelligence to improve hiring quality and efficiency.

Requirements

• Extensive Talent Acquisition experience, including at least 5 years in leadership roles responsible for TA strategy, team performance, and recruitment effectiveness.
• Experience working in a globally distributed organisation, ideally in SaaS, technology infrastructure, or a similarly complex environment.
• Proven ability to define and execute global Talent Acquisition strategies aligned with business objectives and workforce plans.
• Strong commercial acumen and strategic judgement, balancing business priorities, hiring demand, recruitment capacity, budgets, and talent-market conditions.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, including advising and constructively challenging C-suite executives and senior business leaders.
• Deep recruitment expertise, including establishing high hiring standards, structured and evidence-based assessment, and improving hiring decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop high-performing Talent Acquisition teams and empower them as strategic business partners.
• Strong analytical capabilities using recruitment data, performance metrics, and talent-market intelligence to identify risks and drive improvement.
• Experience designing and evolving scalable recruitment operating models, processes, and governance, leading change and organisational adoption.
• Strong understanding of modern recruitment technology, ATS platforms, automation, and AI, with the ability to improve hiring quality, efficiency, and candidate experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with Ashby.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work within the listed European countries.
• Collaboration across global markets and functions in a diverse team.
• Supportive environment focused on quality, knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and meaningful work in payments.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity and inclusion.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted by 18 November 2026.
• hirify.global never requests payment from applicants at any stage; legitimate vacancies and recruitment communications use official hirify.global channels and domains.