Head Of People & Talent

Location:Remote - Europe or Canada preferred
Type:Full-time
Reports to:CEO
Team:Leadership Team
About BrandBastionBrandBastion is a global AI-powered social media engagement platform helping some of the world's leading brands manage, understand, and engage with their audiences at scale.
We work with global brands including Adobe, Sephora, Uber, and The North Face, combining advanced AI technology with deep expertise in social media engagement and brand safety.
Founded in 2013, BrandBastion has grown into a profitable, international SaaS business with a globally distributed team. We're entering an exciting new phase of growth, expanding our product capabilities and the markets we serve.
About The RoleWe're looking for an exceptional Head of People & Talent to join our leadership team and work closely with our CEO to build a world-class, globally distributed organization.
This is not a traditional HR role.
We're looking for someone who is passionate about identifying exceptional talent, building high-performing teams, and creating the people strategies and infrastructure that enable a business to scale.
Talent acquisition will be at the heart of your role. You'll take ownership of our recruitment strategy, partner with leaders across the business to define what great talent looks like, and personally drive hiring for critical positions.
Beyond recruitment, you'll help shape our organizational structure, compensation strategies, performance management, onboarding, and international employment practices.
As a member of our leadership team, you'll be expected to bring ideas, challenge assumptions, and proactively identify ways to strengthen the organization.
We're looking for someone who can move seamlessly between strategic discussions with the CEO and hands‑on execution. Someone who is equally comfortable developing a global compensation framework, interviewing a senior candidate, or figuring out the best way to hire someone in a new country.
What You'll Do
Lead talent acquisition and build exceptional teams
Own BrandBastion's global recruitment strategy and hiring processes, from workforce planning through sourcing, assessment, offers, and onboarding
Partner closely with the CEO and functional leaders to identify talent needs and define the skills and capabilities required as the business grows
Personally lead recruitment for strategic and senior positions, including proactive sourcing, interviewing, and closing candidates
Build strong talent pipelines across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, AI, Marketing, and Operations
Develop effective approaches to evaluating talent, including structured interviews, assessments, scorecards, and reference checking
Create an exceptional candidate experience while maintaining high standards and efficient hiring processes
Continuously improve how we source and evaluate candidates, leveraging AI, automation, data, and modern recruiting tools
Be a strategic partner to the CEO and leadership team
Act as a trusted advisor on organizational design, leadership capabilities, succession planning, and team effectiveness
Proactively identify gaps in the organization and recommend how to address them through hiring, development, or structural changes
Help leaders make better decisions about team composition, seniority, responsibilities, and reporting structures
Bring market intelligence and an external perspective on talent availability, organizational practices, and compensation
Challenge assumptions constructively and help us maintain a high-performance, accountable organization
Translate business priorities into practical people and hiring plans
Build and manage our international people operations
Develop scalable processes for managing a globally distributed workforce across different countries, employment models, and time zones
Work closely with Finance and external partners to manage international employment arrangements, including direct employment, Employer of Record (EOR) solutions, and independent contractors
Help determine the most effective and appropriate hiring structures when entering new markets
Oversee people processes across the employee lifecycle, including contracts, onboarding, performance management, role transitions, and offboarding
Ensure appropriate coordination with local legal, payroll, and employment experts to maintain compliant and effective operations
Improve our people systems, documentation, and workflows without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy
Develop compensation, performance, and career frameworks
Design and maintain competitive, commercially sustainable compensation structures across international markets
Partner with leadership on salary benchmarking, incentive plans, commission structures, and performance-based compensation
Establish clear frameworks for performance reviews, career development, promotions, and compensation adjustments
Help managers set expectations, provide meaningful feedback, and address performance challenges
Build thoughtful and consistent practices that support fairness, accountability, and high performance
Create an exceptional employee experience
Build onboarding experiences that help new hires become productive, connected, and successful quickly
Support managers in developing, retaining, and motivating high-performing teams
Help maintain a strong, collaborative culture across our distributed organization
Identify opportunities to improve employee experience, communication, and engagement in ways that deliver measurable value
Ensure our people practices evolve alongside the business rather than slowing it down
Requirements
7+ years of relevant experience spanning talent acquisition, people operations, and/or people leadership, ideally in a high-growth SaaS or technology business
A strong track record of personally recruiting exceptional talent, including senior and hard-to-fill roles
Experience operating as a strategic partner to founders, CEOs, or executive leadership teams
Meaningful experience working with internationally distributed teams across multiple employment jurisdictions
Familiarity with different employment models, including EOR providers, international contractors, and direct employees
Experience designing or improving compensation structures, recruitment processes, performance frameworks, and onboarding programs
Strong commercial judgment and an understanding of how people decisions contribute to business performance
Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the confidence to challenge, influence, and advise senior leaders
A highly proactive, resourceful, and hands‑on approach. You see problems, propose solutions, and take ownership of execution
Comfort working with modern HR and recruiting technology, including AI-powered tools and automation
Excellent written and spoken English
You might be a particularly strong fit if
You've built or significantly improved the talent and people function at a fast-growing international company
You started your career in recruitment or talent acquisition and expanded into broader people leadership
You've worked in a globally distributed, remote-first company and understand the complexities that come with it
You enjoy the pace, ownership, and variety of an entrepreneurial environment
You care deeply about hiring outstanding people and believe that building an exceptional team is one of the most important drivers of company success
BenefitsWhy join BrandBastion?
Direct impact: Work closely with the CEO and leadership team, influencing some of the company's most important decisions
Real ownership: Shape and lead our global people and talent strategy rather than simply executing established processes
International scope: Work with talented colleagues across multiple countries, cultures, and functions
AI-driven innovation: Join a profitable, growing SaaS business at the forefront of AI-powered social media engagement
Remote-first flexibility: Work from Europe or Canada as part of an internationally distributed team
Opportunity to build: Help shape our next chapter of growth and develop a people function that can scale with the company
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