Head of People – Talent

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🔴 Lead

👥 People Operations

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BrandBastion

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🌍 Social Impact

💰 Seed Round on 2016-01

Consulting • Marketing • Social Impact

BrandBastion is a social media management platform that specializes in community management, brand protection, and audience engagement. It offers 24/7 services, utilizing advanced AI integrations to respond to comments, analyze sentiment, and prevent harmful interactions on social media. BrandBastion empowers brands to enhance their online presence by ensuring a safe and engaging environment for audience interaction, ultimately driving awareness and sales.

📋 Description

• Own BrandBastion's global recruitment strategy and hiring processes from workforce planning through sourcing, assessment, offers, and onboarding. • Partner with the CEO and functional leaders to identify talent needs and define required skills and capabilities. • Personally lead recruitment for strategic and senior positions, including sourcing, interviewing, and closing candidates. • Build talent pipelines across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, AI, Marketing, and Operations. • Develop structured interviews, assessments, scorecards, and reference-checking approaches. • Improve sourcing and candidate evaluation using AI, automation, data, and modern recruiting tools. • Advise the CEO and leadership team on organizational design, leadership capabilities, succession planning, and team effectiveness. • Identify organizational gaps and recommend hiring, development, or structural solutions. • Develop scalable people processes for a globally distributed workforce across countries, employment models, and time zones. • Manage international employment arrangements involving direct employment, EOR solutions, and independent contractors. • Oversee employee lifecycle processes including contracts, onboarding, performance management, role transitions, and offboarding. • Coordinate with local legal, payroll, and employment experts to maintain compliant operations. • Design and maintain competitive compensation structures across international markets. • Partner on salary benchmarking, incentive plans, commission structures, and performance-based compensation. • Establish frameworks for performance reviews, career development, promotions, and compensation adjustments. • Build onboarding and employee-experience practices that support productivity, connection, retention, and engagement.

🎯 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 track record of personally recruiting exceptional talent, including senior and hard-to-fill roles. • Experience operating as a strategic partner to founders, CEOs, or executive leadership teams. • Meaningful experience working 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 contribute to business performance. • Exceptional interpersonal skills, with confidence to challenge, influence, and advise senior leaders. • Highly proactive, resourceful, and hands-on approach. • Comfort working with modern HR and recruiting technology, including AI-powered tools and automation. • Excellent written and spoken English. • CV or LinkedIn profile and a brief example of personally improving a company's ability to attract, hire, or retain exceptional people.

🏖️ Benefits

• Direct impact: Work closely with the CEO and leadership team, influencing some of the company's most important decisions. • Real ownership: Shape and lead our global people and talent strategy rather than simply executing established processes. • International scope: Work with talented colleagues across multiple countries, cultures, and functions. • AI-driven innovation: Join a profitable, growing SaaS business at the forefront of AI-powered social media engagement. • Remote-first flexibility: Work from Europe or Canada as part of an internationally distributed team. • Opportunity to build: Help shape our next chapter of growth and develop a people function that can scale with the company.

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