Talent Acquisition Director

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What’s up? We’re VaynerMedia! VaynerMedia is a global integrated creative and media agency, built for today's consumers. As the Modern Agency of Record, it understands the nuances of today's attention landscape, empowering brands to win attention, drive relevance, and deliver business results. Founded in 2009, by Gary Vaynerchuk, the independently owned agency operates in 15 offices worldwide, including Amsterdam, Bangkok, Chicago, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Singapore, and Sydney. VaynerMedia is part of the VaynerX family of companies.

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMediaAPAC is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time --- PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In APAC, we are proudly +300, servicing diverse clients all around the region.

The PITCH

Our amazing People & Experience team is looking for a visionary and hands-on Talent Acquisition Director to strategically lead, scale, and innovate the talent acquisition function across APAC & EMEA. This role requires a “people first” leader who will not only oversee the entire recruitment life cycle but also build and mentor a high-performing talent team.

This is a full-time, senior-level role with a reporting structure to the Head of People and Experience Team, APAC.

Here’s your first brief --

You are a strategic leader, a highly organized systems thinker, and a skilled director who can manage complex regional talent strategies while being comfortable with the dynamic, fast-paced nature of our agency. You take the importance of this leadership role with the utmost professionalism.

You will be expected to lead heart first, caring deeply about both people and outcomes. Your mission is to design, implement, and lead VaynerMedia International (APAC & EMEA) strategy for spotting and hiring top-tier talent and uphold the talent experiences, ensuring all efforts reflect our Vayner values.

• Own and elevate the regional talent acquisition and management process from strategy and budget to hiring and onboarding in both APAC & EMEA region.
• Design and execute the overarching talent acquisition strategy, ensuring the true reflection of our Vayner values with a candidate/talent-first approach.
• Act as a strategic partner to executive leadership and regional leads to forecast staffing needs, design ideal candidate profiles, and create sophisticated recruitment strategies and processes to support their growth goals.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the APAC Talent Acquisition team, fostering a culture of high performance, out-of-the-box proactivity, and innovation.
• Be the Subject Matter Expert in identifying amazing talents for senior and leadership roles across media, creative, production, and strategy teams in APAC, with a deep understanding of the agency’s nature and industry.
• Spearhead the development of robust, long-term talent pipelines for hard-to-find skills, niche, and high-demand executive roles, defining and driving a focused, proactive sourcing strategy.
• Oversee and optimize the candidate experience, guiding candidates through the entire recruiting life-cycle while ensuring high-touch, responsive, and professional communication.
• Drive data-informed decisions by developing key recruiting metrics, reports, and dashboards to measure effectiveness, identify bottlenecks, and inform leadership on talent market trends with pragmatic solutions to the team.
• Spark enthusiasm in everything you do and genuinely believe in bringing your full self to what you do every day, seeing “work” as a calling and a passion.

We treasure personality and can-do attitude, yet we do know that these qualifications lead to success in the Talent Acquisition Director role for our growing APAC family --

• 10+ years of progressive experience in talent acquisition (recruitment, selection, and placement), with 3+ years in a leadership or managerial role
• Prior work experience leading Talent Acquisition within an advertising agency, in-house creative organization, or within the start-up industry is a significant plus.
• Adept and comfortable working through frequent change in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Works smart; highly entrepreneurial and opportunistic in the AI space.
• Futuristic; systems thinker; considers broader organizational and cultural impacts.
• Excellent organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills with a detail-oriented mindset.
• A team player with a positive attitude, strong interpersonal skills, and a diverse communicator to all levels within the organization.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion in handling sensitive information.
• Thrives in a company of good people.
• Experience in APAC/EMEA countries and/or proficiency in additional languages relevant to the region are a plus.
• Already writing a better job description than this one....

What you should know about VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.