Lead Talent Acquisition Partner

Lead Talent Acquisition Partner

Circle is one of the world's leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle's platform includes the world's largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation.

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

As a Lead Talent Acquisition Partner, you will own full-cycle recruiting for high-priority Finance and core business searches and serve as a strategic hiring partner to Finance leaders, HRBPs, FP&A, Legal, Total Rewards, and Talent Operations. This role requires strong recruiting judgment, disciplined process ownership, and comfort operating in complex approval environments. The successful candidate must have hands-on experience building agentic AI bots or workflow agents, and must have used Skills with Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex to improve recruiting, sourcing, process documentation, candidate evaluation, stakeholder communication, or TA operations.

What you'll work on:

• Own full-cycle recruiting for Finance roles, including intake, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, interview process management, offer strategy, and close.
• Serve as the Talent Acquisition subject matter expert for Finance hiring, including approval paths, stakeholder preferences, leveling considerations, offer mechanics, internal candidate handling, geo/entity constraints, and hiring process risk.
• Build trusted partnerships with Finance leaders and cross-functional partners by bringing clear recommendations, not just open questions.
• Maintain accurate, current, and auditable recruiting records in Workday, ModernLoop, Gem, and other designated TA systems.
• Partner closely with Total Rewards, FP&A, Legal, HRBPs, and Talent Operations to ensure offers and hiring decisions are aligned to budget, policy, approvals, and internal equity.
• Use structured decision-making to identify risk, tradeoffs, downstream impact, and required approvals before action is taken.
• Deliver a high-quality candidate and hiring manager experience while maintaining strong process control.
• Build, test, and improve agentic AI bots or workflow agents that support TA work, such as sourcing research, intake preparation, candidate summaries, interview-plan drafting, offer-process checklists, hiring-manager updates, or system hygiene checks.
• Use Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex Skills to create repeatable recruiting workflows, document processes, improve stakeholder communication, and reduce manual operational drag.
• Participate in broader TA initiatives that improve recruiting quality, speed, governance, and AI-enabled operating leverage.

What you'll bring to Circle:

• 7+ years of in-house recruiting experience, with demonstrated success owning the full recruiting lifecycle for complex business, Finance, G&A, or corporate functions.
• Proven ability to operate as a consultative partner to senior hiring leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience building agentic AI bots, workflow agents, or practical AI automations that improved a business process.
• Direct experience using Skills in Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex for repeatable workflows, structured outputs, process automation, or operational documentation.
• Strong command of Workday and modern recruiting systems; experience with ModernLoop, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, Google Workspace, Slack, and MacOS preferred.
• Excellent judgment in sensitive hiring matters, including offers, internal candidates, exceptions, compensation alignment, stakeholder escalation, and candidate communications.
• Ability to separate facts from assumptions, communicate clearly, and escalate with a recommendation when risk or approval ambiguity exists.
• High attention to detail and strong system hygiene; you treat recruiting systems as source-of-truth infrastructure, not administrative cleanup.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to produce concise, executive-ready updates.
• High integrity, strong ownership, and sound judgment in a fast-moving, highly regulated environment.
• Bachelor's degree required

Preferred experience:

• Experience recruiting for Finance, Accounting, Treasury, FP&A, Audit, Tax, or related functions.
• Experience hiring in global markets, including entity, EOR, immigration, or jurisdiction-specific hiring considerations.
• Experience creating AI-enabled recruiting playbooks, prompts, Skills, agents, or operating procedures.
• Familiarity with responsible AI usage in hiring, including human oversight, consistency, fairness, and compliance-sensitive process design.

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages. Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.

Base Pay Range: $140,000 - $185,000

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.

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