Director, Global Head of Recruiting

Join Sonar, a fast-growing company in the AI and engineering space. As the Director, Global Head of Recruiting, you will lead the strategy, team, and systems behind talent acquisition worldwide. You will work closely with the CHRO and the executive leadership team, managing a globally distributed recruiting team and partnering with stakeholders in all our hubs. This role requires a strong background in recruiting operations, experience leading globally distributed teams, and a passion for building a successful recruiting operation.

• Lead and develop a high-performing, globally distributed recruiting team, while personally owning a req load and leading searches directly.
• Partner with stakeholders across every hub to ensure hiring strategy reflects the realities of each local market and business unit.
• Redesign and modernize recruiting processes and infrastructure, leveraging the newest technologies to fundamentally change how the TA function sources, assesses, and closes talent.
• You'll bring deep, hands-on experience modernizing how recruiting teams operate with the newest technologies — not just using AI tools, but having rebuilt recruiting processes around them, and a genuine passion and track record for building a successful recruiting operation as the foundation of a scalable, high-performing talent function
• Have a strong background in recruiting operations, with a genuine passion for why recops is the foundation of a successful, scalable recruiting team
• Have wide and deep experience across both technical and non-technical recruiting — including highly technical engineering recruitment and building a talent-dense GTM division within a high-growth B2B SaaS company
• Have experience leading globally distributed recruiting teams and partnering with stakeholders across multiple international markets and time zones
• Have 10+ years of recruiting experience, including tenured experience running a high-performing team and function while directly owning a req load
• Have experience managing requisition administration and recruiting budgets, with a track record of close partnership with FP&A on headcount planning and forecasting
• Have demonstrated success operating as both a strategic leader and an individual contributor — comfortable setting vision and strategy while staying hands-on with sourcing and closing
• Have experience negotiating commercial terms and contracts with recruiting agencies, working closely with Procurement and Legal to drive value and manage vendor spend effectively
• Have proven, hands-on experience rebuilding a recruiting process using the newest technologies to fundamentally optimize how a TA team operates — deeper than prompting LLMs, this means having led the redesign itself
• Bring strong data fluency, with a track record of using recruiting metrics to drive decision-making and process improvement
• Have strong experience partnering with HR Operations on visas/immigration, right-to-work, onboarding, and background check processes
• Have working knowledge of compensation practices across global markets, and can contribute meaningfully to compensation strategy in partnership with a Compensation Director
• Have experience partnering with senior executives and acting as a strategic advisor on talent and organizational planning
• Be based in, or willing to relocate to, Austin, Texas, with a commitment to the in-office collaboration model
• Bring excellent judgment, discretion, and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and across cultures
• Have led employer branding or talent marketing initiatives that measurably improved candidate pipeline quality or volume