Manager, Talent Acquisition

Job Description

: Manager, Talent Acquisition APAC, Greater China & Global Professional Services

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company Were looking for a strategic and dynamic Talent Acquisition Manager to lead hiring across APAC, Greater China, and our Global Professional Services teams. This is an opportunity to build, innovate, and truly own recruitment across some of our most dynamic markets.

Youll lead a lean but mighty team of recruiters, work closely with business leaders, and shape how we attract and hire the best talent. If you love making things happen, thrive in fast-moving environments, and enjoy connecting people with the right opportunities, this is the role for you.

How youll make an impact:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of three regionally distributed Talent Acquisition Partners, ensuring they achieve excellence in sourcing, hiring, and stakeholder management. Actively coach them in refining their skills, problem-solving, and delivering results.
• Own and drive all hiring activities for the Global Professional Services business, ensuring the team meets hiring goals with high-quality talent.
• Proactively assess and improve hiring quality, using data-driven insights to refine sourcing strategies, selection processes, and long-term talent outcomes.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, working closely with their teams to address talent gaps and ensure recruitment aligns with business priorities.
• Lead workforce planning in partnership with FP&A, ensuring hiring plans and budget allocation are efficient and aligned with organizational growth.
• Design and execute the TA strategy for APAC and Greater China, taking ownership of its implementation and continuously optimizing it based on market conditions and hiring outcomes.
• Streamline and scale hiring processes, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and a seamless experience for candidates, hiring managers, and recruiters.
• Personally engage with senior hires when needed, taking a hands-on approach to sourcing, assessing, and closing top leadership talent.
• Enhance internal mobility and succession planning, building proactive pipelines to ensure key roles are filled with the right talent at the right time.
• Strengthen Taboolas employer brand in APAC and Greater China by developing partnerships with key agencies, organizations, and industry groups, particularly in tech and diversity.
• Equip hiring managers and interviewers with the skills and knowledge needed to assess talent effectively, through structured training and coaching.
• Drive a data-centric approach to recruitment, regularly analyzing hiring KPIs and market trends to identify opportunities for improvement and ensure accountability.
• Stay connected to industry trends, competitor strategies, and talent market shifts, leveraging insights to refine hiring practices and future-proof the function.

To thrive in this role youll need:

• 7 years of end-to-end recruitment experience in high-growth tech companies.
• Experienced people manager with at least 3 years of leading Talent Acquisition teams.
• Understanding of the APAC and Greater China talent landscape and how to navigate it.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, enjoys exploring the unknown, and knows how to bring people together to make things happen.
• Thinks in datatracks key hiring metrics, spots trends, and uses insights to improve the way we hire.
• An expert at building relationshipswhether its with hiring managers, candidates, or external partners, knows how to connect and influence.
• Ability to find great talent beyond just LinkedInwhether its sourcing creatively, leveraging networks, or using the latest tools.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment and enjoys finding solutions to new challenges.
• Cares deeply about diversity and inclusion and knows how to build diverse teams.
• Fluent in English (written and verbal); additional languages from APAC are a plus

Why this role?

• Key role in shaping Taboolas future by hiring smart, passionate, and driven individuals to build out Taboolas rapidly growing business.
• Use your expertise and market knowledge to influence business decisions and contribute to Taboolas success.
• Enjoy a fast-paced, data-driven environment where you can make a real difference.
• Be part of a fun, creative, and supportive Talent Acquisition team that values collaboration and innovation.
• Work closely with a variety of teams and departments, building strong relationships and contributing to a positive and collaborative work environment.
• Opportunities to expand your skills and knowledge and advance your career in a dynamic and rewarding field.

Why Taboola?

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, theyll tell you that theyve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. Theyll also share more about:

Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; You can copy anything from another business but you cant copy a companys culture."

• Well-being: Enjoy a range of locally relevant benefits and workplace perks.
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
• Work with some of the biggest names: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia, and Honda.

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboolas powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi, and others use Taboolas technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

Locations: Bangkok, Thailand

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