As the first dedicated Talent Acquisition & Operations Specialist, you will play a key role in building and shaping the recruitment and people operations functions of a growing international fintech business. You will dedicate approximately 70% of your time to managing full-cycle recruitment across APAC and the Middle East, with the remaining 30% focused on people operations and HR administration. Working closely with founders, senior leaders, and hiring managers, you will drive strategic hiring initiatives while ensuring a seamless employee experience. From establishing recruitment processes and building talent pipelines to managing onboarding and supporting a distributed workforce, you will have significant ownership and autonomy. This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on professional who enjoys building processes from the ground up. You will work in a fast-paced, fully remote, multicultural environment, with direct exposure to multiple international markets and the opportunity to make a lasting impact on organizational growth.
Manage the full recruitment lifecycle: Oversee every stage of hiring, from understanding hiring needs and developing job descriptions to sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management, and onboarding handovers.
Drive international recruitment: Lead hiring initiatives across APAC and the Middle East, adapting recruitment strategies to local talent markets, compensation expectations, notice periods, and work-permit requirements.
Recruit across diverse functions: Source and attract talent for fintech-related positions, including product, engineering, risk, compliance, payments, and operations, as well as marketing, performance marketing, affiliate, partnerships, media buying, SEO, and CRM roles.
Build proactive talent pipelines: Identify and engage passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, referrals, industry communities, job boards, and targeted headhunting.
Establish recruitment processes: Develop and implement structured hiring practices, including job descriptions, interview frameworks, evaluation scorecards, and applicant tracking systems (ATS).
Advise hiring managers: Provide insights into talent availability, market salary benchmarks, recruitment timelines, and hiring strategies while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.
Manage recruitment performance: Monitor and report key hiring metrics, including time-to-hire, sourcing effectiveness, and offer acceptance rates. Strengthen employer branding and coordinate external recruitment agencies when necessary.
Oversee employee lifecycle administration: Manage onboarding and offboarding processes, including employment documentation, contracts, equipment, system access, and first-week arrangements.
Maintain HR systems and records: Ensure employee information, HR documentation, and records are accurate, organized, and compliant within the HR information system (HRIS).
Coordinate payroll and compliance activities: Work closely with finance teams and external Employer of Record (EOR) or payroll providers to manage monthly payroll inputs, employee changes, new joiners, and departures across multiple countries.
Support employee relations and engagement: Handle day-to-day HR queries related to leave, benefits, policies, and documentation, while coordinating background checks, reference checks, probation reviews, performance cycles, and engagement initiatives.
Develop people operations infrastructure: Draft, update, and implement HR policies and employee handbook documentation tailored to a remote, multi-country workforce.
Optimize HR operations: Manage recruitment and HR vendors, tools, and subscriptions, identifying opportunities to automate repetitive administrative tasks and improve operational efficiency.