Lead Talent Acquisition Partner

About the role

Circle is seeking a Lead Talent Acquisition Partner to join our Finance team. This role will be responsible for full-cycle recruiting for high-priority Finance and core business searches and serving as a strategic hiring partner to Finance leaders, HRBPs, FP&A, Legal, Total Rewards, and Talent Operations.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for Finance roles, including intake, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, interview process management, offer strategy, and close.
• Serve as the Talent Acquisition subject matter expert for Finance hiring, including approval paths, stakeholder preferences, leveling considerations, offer mechanics, internal candidate handling, geo/entity constraints, and hiring process risk.
• Build trusted partnerships with Finance leaders and cross-functional partners by bringing clear recommendations, not just open questions.
• Maintain accurate, current, and auditable recruiting records in Workday, ModernLoop, Gem, and other designated TA systems.
• Partner closely with Total Rewards, FP&A, Legal, HRBPs, and Talent Operations to ensure offers and hiring decisions are aligned to budget, policy, approvals, and internal equity.
• Use structured decision-making to identify risk, tradeoffs, downstream impact, and required approvals before action is taken.
• Deliver a high-quality candidate and hiring manager experience while maintaining strong process control.
• Build, test, and improve agentic AI bots or workflow agents that support TA work, such as sourcing research, intake preparation, candidate summaries, interview-plan drafting, offer-process checklists, hiring-manager updates, or system hygiene checks.
• Use Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex Skills to create repeatable recruiting workflows, document processes, improve stakeholder communication, and reduce manual operational drag.
• Participate in broader TA initiatives that improve recruiting quality, speed, governance, and AI-enabled operating leverage.

Requirements

• 7+ years of in-house recruiting experience, with demonstrated success owning the full recruiting lifecycle for complex business, Finance, G&A, or corporate functions.
• Proven ability to operate as a consultative partner to senior hiring leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience building agentic AI bots, workflow agents, or practical AI automations that improved a business process.
• Direct experience using Skills in Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex for repeatable workflows, structured outputs, process automation, or operational documentation.
• Strong command of Workday and modern recruiting systems; experience with ModernLoop, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, Google Workspace, Slack, and MacOS preferred.
• Excellent judgment in sensitive hiring matters, including offers, internal candidates, exceptions, compensation alignment, stakeholder escalation, and candidate communications.
• High attention to detail and strong system hygiene; you treat recruiting systems as source-of-truth infrastructure, not administrative cleanup.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to produce concise, executive-ready updates.
• High integrity, strong ownership, and sound judgment in a fast-moving, highly regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Experience recruiting for Finance, Accounting, Treasury, FP&A, Audit, Tax, or related functions.
• Experience hiring in global markets, including entity, EOR, immigration, or jurisdiction-specific hiring considerations.
• Familiarity with responsible AI usage in hiring, including human oversight, consistency, fairness, and compliance-sensitive process design.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with agentic AI bots or workflow agents.
• Experience using Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex Skills.

Benefits

• Base Pay Range: $140,000 - $185,000.

Pay

• Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs.

Schedule

• Flexible work environment.