Global Talent Acquisition Lead

Our success is powered by the extraordinary talent we attract and the inclusive environment we foster. We’re looking for our next Global Talent Acquisition Lead, to take our hiring strategy to the next level and ensure we continue to build diverse, high-performing teams across the world.

In this role, you will set and execute the strategy that ensures we attract, engage, and retain the best people. Partnering with leaders across all regions to understand their talent needs, design recruitment processes that scale, and champion an exceptional candidate experience.

Naturally, you’ll also be a thought leader in the market—bringing insights on emerging trends, employer branding, and diversity hiring—while rolling up your sleeves to lead our hiring efforts. 

What You’ll Do

Lead & Evolve Strategy: Design and deliver a global talent acquisition strategy aligned with our growth ambitions.

Partner Globally: Collaborate with leaders across multiple regions to forecast needs and build strong talent pipelines.

Employer Brand: Shape and strengthen our employer brand to attract world-class talent.

Candidate Experience: Ensure a best-in-class recruitment journey from first contact to offer to help develop talent strategies and design approaches for diagnosing and enhancing candidate experience.

Global mobility: Develop an internal mobility approach and build succession planning across core roles

Hiring Manager Enablement: Train and guide leaders in effective interviewing and talent acquisition strategies to attract and retain top talent.

Diversity & Inclusion: Embed inclusive hiring practices across all regions and levels.

Data & Insights: Use analytics to drive smarter, data-led hiring decisions and continuously improve.

Hiring: This is a full 360 role, briefing, sourcing, screening, assisting in interviews when required and managing candidate experience through to offers.

Amplify Through Technology: Adopt AI and automation to streamline sourcing, screening, and decision-making, reducing time-to-hire while improving candidate quality and experience.

Key skills required

• Proven experience leading global recruitment strategies in high-growth, technology or international organisations.
• Strong track record of hiring.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders.
• Skilled at balancing strategic vision with hands-on delivery.
• Confident with data-driven decision-making and talent acquisition technology.
• Thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments with competing priorities.
• Previous experience with people partnering with Technology stakeholders is highly regarded.
• Strong talent network to connect with people within our industry and build our future talent pipeline.

Location: Sydney in a Hybrid capacity

Why work for Squiz? 

You’ll work with some of the most intelligent and down to earth people you’ve ever meet. We are made up of a diverse range of passionate professionals who love challenging the status quo. Every day is different, but what is constant is we all love what we do.

We have a lived commitment to flexibility, we know the success of our people is dependent on them having a balanced life. You will be offered flexibility as to where and how you work every day. We want you to be able to work in a way that drives productivity, efficiency and outcomes; along with connection and collaboration.

Who we are: 

Squiz helps complex, service-led organizations harness the power of digital, improving the services they offer online. 

Founded in 1998, Squiz grew during the rise of the internet. Since then, we have evolved from a simple web content management system into a full digital experience platform (DXP), helping customers make the shift from being content managers to experience creators.

The Squiz DXP brings together content, search, data and applications in one place. To get the most out of the platform, customers can collaborate with our digital experts to design solutions and adapt as demands change.  

We are headquartered in Australia, with teams and customers across the globe, and offices in New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland.

Come as you are - We celebrate diversity and unite on the elements of our company DNA, starting every customer conversation with “why?” to really understand their needs, working hard to find a way to overcome every challenge, and fighting for better outcomes with the work we do. We also check our egos at door, we don’t take ourselves too seriously and we have fun along the way.

We understand the effort it takes to apply for a role. We are committed to respond to each and every applicant, successful or not.

Recruitment Agencies: We politely ask that you avoid making any approaches or sending any unsolicited resumes to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Leaders across our business. Squiz is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.