Global Talent Acquisition Senior Director & HRBP

About ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) helps ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. ICANN coordinates and supports the Internet’s unique identifier systems and operates as a global nonprofit public benefit corporation with a community of participants from around the world. ICANN's work is rooted in collaboration, inclusion, accountability, and service to the global public interest.

Position Summary

The Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition & HR Business Partner (HRBP) leads ICANN's global talent acquisition strategy while serving as a strategic HR business partner to leaders across the organization. This role is responsible for building an integrated, data-informed, and globally consistent approach to attracting, assessing, selecting, and onboarding exceptional talent in support of ICANN's mission and long-term organizational priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and execution of ICANN's global talent acquisition strategy, ensuring hiring plans align with organizational priorities, workforce planning, budget, and long-term capability needs.

• Partner with senior leaders and hiring managers to understand business objectives, anticipate talent needs, define role requirements, and develop effective sourcing and selection strategies.

• Oversee full-cycle recruitment for staff and leadership positions, including:

  • Workforce planning input
  • Requisition intake
  • Sourcing strategy
  • Assessment design
  • Interview process
  • Offer development
  • Onboarding coordination

• Build scalable, consistent, and inclusive recruiting processes that improve quality of hire, speed, transparency, compliance, and candidate experience.

• Strengthen ICANN's employer value proposition and recruitment marketing in partnership with Communications and internal stakeholders.

• Manage and optimize relationships with executive search firms, recruitment agencies, job boards, sourcing platforms, assessment providers, and other external partners.

• Utilize recruiting metrics and labor market intelligence to advise leaders on:

  • Talent availability
  • Compensation competitiveness
  • Hiring effectiveness
  • Workforce risks

• Ensure recruiting practices comply with employment laws, data privacy requirements, ICANN policies, and equitable hiring standards across multiple jurisdictions.

HR Business Partnering

• Serve as a strategic HR business partner to assigned executive leaders and business units to support the achievement of business objectives.

• Partner with leadership and provide practical guidance on talent development, workforce planning, and succession planning.

• Coach and advise managers on effective people leadership to improve collaboration and performance while enhancing staff experience.

• Collaborate and partner across HR teams to deliver integrated people solutions.

• Support leaders through organizational change, including communication planning, stakeholder alignment, change readiness, and adoption.

• Identify and escalate workforce trends, employee relations risks, and organizational health issues, partnering with appropriate HR, Legal, and leadership stakeholders.

• Collaborate with the regional HR team to share best practices, synchronize policies, and ensuring alignment with global HR strategy.

Leadership, Process Improvement & Analytics

• Lead, mentor, and develop Talent Acquisition and HR team members while fostering a collaborative, service-oriented, and accountable culture.

• Establish service standards, governance, process documentation, and performance metrics for talent acquisition and HR business partnering.

• Develop dashboards and reporting on:

  • Hiring activity
  • Time-to-fill
  • Quality of hire
  • Source effectiveness
  • Diversity of candidate slates
  • Candidate experience
  • Hiring manager satisfaction
  • Workforce trends

• Champion:

  • Inclusive hiring
  • Structured interviewing
  • Skills-based assessments
  • Consistent candidate evaluation

• Stay current on:

  • Global talent trends
  • Labor market dynamics
  • HR technology
  • Employment law
  • Best practices for distributed and mission-driven organizations

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Psychology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Typically 12+ years of progressive Human Resources experience, including significant experience in both talent acquisition and HR business partnering.

• Demonstrated success leading recruitment strategy and execution within a global, distributed, matrixed, or otherwise complex organization.

• Proven ability to partner with executive leaders and translate business priorities into actionable people strategies.

• Experience recruiting across multiple functions and organizational levels, including executive leadership, technical, professional, and specialized positions.

• Strong knowledge of:

  • Full-cycle recruiting
  • Sourcing strategies
  • Structured interviewing
  • Candidate assessment
  • Offer management
  • Onboarding
  • Employment compliance

• Experience using applicant tracking systems (ATS), HR information systems (HRIS), recruiting analytics, dashboards, and reporting tools.

• Strong consultative, analytical, communication, facilitation, and relationship management skills.

• Demonstrated ability to manage confidential and sensitive matters with sound judgment and professionalism.

• Experience leading teams, cross-functional initiatives, projects, and external vendors.

• Cultural fluency with demonstrated success working across regions, time zones, languages, and diverse stakeholder groups.

• Commitment to ICANN's mission, values, multistakeholder model, and global public-interest responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, or a related discipline.

• Professional HR certification such as: SHRM-SCP, SHRM-CP, SPHR, PHR, CIP, DE.

• Equivalent international certification.

• Experience working within nonprofit, mission-driven, technology, Internet infrastructure, standards, policy, international, or multistakeholder organizations.

• Experience with:

  • Executive search
  • Succession planning
  • Leadership assessment
  • Workforce planning
  • Employer branding

• Knowledge of employment practices across multiple countries and jurisdictions.

• Experience modernizing recruiting operations, implementing talent acquisition technology, or redesigning recruiting processes.

Targeted Base Salary

• Low: $140,000.00 + 20% Bonus + Benefits

• High: $198,000.00 + 20% Bonus + Benefits