Director Talent Acquisition

Role Description

A successful Director, Regional Talent Acquisition will lead regional recruiting strategy and execution across UCAN, LATAM, and EMEA, partnering with business and HR leaders to deliver scalable, compliant, data-informed hiring solutions.

Fully Remote US based role

Responsibilities:

• Lead regional TA strategy for UCAN, LATAM, and EMEA.
• Partner with senior business, HR, Finance, and Operations leaders on workforce planning.
• Manage, coach, and develop recruiting leaders and teams.
• Drive consistent recruiting processes, governance, and service standards.
• Use talent mapping, market intelligence, funnel analytics, and workforce data.
• Oversee executive, professional, high-volume, and specialized recruiting delivery.
• Advance use of ATS, CRM, AI-enabled recruiting tools, reporting, and automation.
• Guide employer brand, recruitment marketing, diversity outreach, and campaign strategy.
• Monitor time-to-fill, offer acceptance, funnel conversion, recruiter capacity, diversity outcomes, and hiring manager satisfaction.
• Manage recruiting budgets, vendors, agencies, and tools.
• Resolve recruiting challenges with agility, judgment, and critical thinking.
• Champion First Advantage values and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Psychology, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 10+ years progressive TA experience, including regional or multi-country team leadership.
• Experience leading recruiting across UCAN, LATAM, and EMEA.
• Strong workforce planning, hiring strategy, talent mapping, sourcing, stakeholder consulting, and capacity planning skills.
• Proven people leadership and distributed team management.
• Advanced recruiting operations, ATS/CRM, reporting, and data-driven decision-making experience.
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, agency usage, and recruiting technology.
• Strong communication, negotiation, judgment, and executive stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work in a global, matrixed environment.

Requirements

• Experience in HR technology, background screening, SaaS, business services, or global organization.
• Experience supporting full-cycle and high-volume recruiting.
• Success leading transformation, process improvement, automation, or recruiting technology adoption.
• Experience with employer brand, diversity outreach, and talent communities.
• Knowledge of hiring markets across UCAN, LATAM, and EMEA.
• Responsible use of AI-enabled recruiting tools.
• Multilingual or multicultural leadership experience.

Benefits

• We have great people here and are looking for more. Come join us!

Equal Employment Opportunities at First Advantage

First Advantage is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing a workplace and recruitment process that is free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Employment decisions at First Advantage are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We do not discriminate in any aspect of employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital or family status, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.