Lead Recruiter (Commercial & Corporate Hiring)

Overview

Lead hiring across Operations, Finance, Marketing, Creative, HR, Legal, Strategy, CEO Office and other corporate functions globally, combining hands-on recruitment with leadership responsibilities.

What you'll do

• Own the end-to-end recruitment process for business and corporate functions globally, including Operations, Finance, Marketing, Creative, HR, Legal, CEO Office, and other key functions.
• Partner closely with hiring managers and senior leaders to define hiring priorities, organizational needs, role requirements, and workforce planning strategies.
• Act as a trusted talent advisor by providing market intelligence, compensation insights, hiring recommendations, and talent market trends.
• Lead recruitment efforts for senior, niche, confidential, and business-critical positions across multiple regions.
• Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to attract high-caliber passive candidates in competitive talent markets.
• Build and maintain strong talent pipelines across key business functions to support both current and future hiring needs.
• Conduct talent mapping exercises across target companies, industries, and markets.
• Develop strong understanding of global labor markets, compensation trends, and talent availability across multiple countries.
• Mentor and support junior recruiters, helping improve sourcing effectiveness, candidate assessment quality, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Establish recruiting best practices, interview calibration standards, sourcing frameworks, and hiring processes across business functions.
• Review recruitment performance, pipeline quality, and hiring outcomes to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Support the development and scaling of the global Talent Acquisition team.
• Maintain accurate ATS data, candidate records, and recruitment reporting.
• Track recruitment metrics including pipeline health, time-to-hire, source effectiveness, offer acceptance rates, and hiring quality.
• Ensure a professional, positive, and consistent candidate experience across all recruitment stages.
• Support compliance with local labor regulations and recruitment best practices across multiple regions.

What you'll need

• 5-8 years of full-cycle recruitment experience across multiple business and corporate functions.
• Proven success recruiting for functions such as Operations, Finance, Marketing, Creative, HR, Legal, Strategy, Consulting, CEO Office, or other business-critical roles.
• Demonstrated ability to hire senior, niche, and difficult-to-fill positions across multiple markets.
• Strong expertise in sourcing passive candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, networking, talent mapping, referrals, and other advanced sourcing techniques.
• Experience managing multiple high-priority requisitions simultaneously while maintaining quality and speed.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence hiring decisions and challenge hiring assumptions when necessary.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders on hiring strategy, organizational design discussions, and workforce planning initiatives.
• Familiarity with global hiring practices, compensation structures, and recruitment across multiple countries.
• Strong proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and recruitment analytics.
• Excellent communication, project management, and relationship-building skills.

Nice to have

• Experience mentoring, coaching, or guiding junior recruiters.
• Experience in high-growth technology companies, startups, internet businesses, consulting firms, or fast-scaling organizations.

Details

• Location: Singapore.