Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

We're looking to welcome a Senior Director, Talent Acquisition to lead our North America and EMEA regions reporting into the Global Head of Talent Acquisition (TA). You will be managing Recruiting Leaders and a team of over 20 Recruiters located across Canada, Amsterdam, UK, Germany, Ireland, and Georgia. As a leader in the recruiting function, you will have an amazing opportunity to help scale the function and help Lighspeed continue to grow and expand its business.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Build, mentor and develop global Recruiting Managers and delegate authority to expand leadership skills
- Manage through the identification of development opportunities, guidance around recruiting strategy, and ensuring effective business partner relationships globally
- Collaborate and strategize with the HR leadership team and act as department champion across broader HR
- Partner with global leaders and Recruiting Managers to develop short and long term priorities and hiring plans that aligns to the overall company strategic plan
- Anticipate the impact of company's strategic objectives and priorities and provide guidance to global Recruiting function
- Consistently works to innovate and expand the caliber of the global recruiting function by identifying, designing and leading best-in-class recruiting strategies, processes and systems in partnership with Recruiting leadership and Global Head of TA
- Escalate the Recruiting function to be viewed by leaders as true business partners
- Provide oversight on initiatives to strengthen the diversity of our talent at all stages of the hiring funnel
- Responsible for oversight of recruiting spend across direct team and assist Global Head of TA on setting global budget with a thorough understanding of anticipated costs and needs
- Help optimize our metrics and Applicant Tracking System to create a more efficient and effective hiring processes; Identify opportunities to create efficiencies across all recruiting when possible
- Responsible for developing hiring dashboards with Recruiting Managers to effectively communicate insights to hiring managers and senior leaders
- Create, maintain and communicate recruiting capacity plan to identify gaps, needs and recommendations to the Global Head of TA.
- Drive process improvements; Lead teams internally to evaluate areas of improvement, develop solutions, gain input and approvals, and roll out global improvements for the recruiting function.

**What you need to bring**:

- 10+ years of experience in staffing, recruiting or career placement
- 7+ years of recruiting management experience or leading a team
- Experience managing recruiting managers/leaders and mentoring a team
- Previous experience using an applicant tracking system required (Greenhouse preferred)
- Proven track record of managing recruitment strategies in a high growth environment - tech experience is strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience creating and executing a metrics-driven recruiting strategy for an international organization
- Experience implementing impactful DE&I initiatives
- Passion for sourcing and developing sourcing depth within recruiting functions
- Amazing people skills: your empathy shines through, especially when you are coaching your team for growth
- Commitment to integrity and quality - you will only hire the best
- Tenacity, Passion, Grit, and a desire to be part of building and optimizing a global recruiting organization.

**What's in it for you?**

Come live the Lightspeed experience...
- Ability to do your job in a truly flexible environment;
- Genuine career opportunities in a company that's creating new jobs everyday;
and enjoy a range of benefits that'll keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry:

- Lightspeed share scheme (we are all owners)
- Employer subsidy for company pension plan (on top of statutory pension scheme)
- Flexible working policy
- 28 paid vacation days
- Corporate benefits card
- Transit benefit
- Learning and development opportunities, including LinkedIn Learning license

**Where to from here?**
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you're proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal's gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.

**Who we are**:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to ne