[Hiring] Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition @Salsify

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition to lead and evolve how we attract and hire exceptional talent globally. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can connect hiring strategy to the needs of the business, build trusted partnerships with leaders, and create the structure and operational rigor needed to deliver consistently. You’ll lead and develop our Talent Acquisition team while staying close to critical searches and the day-to-day realities of hiring.

As our workforce and the nature of work continue to evolve, you’ll also help us rethink what great talent looks like in the AI era. That means hiring for skills like adaptability, curiosity, judgment, and impact, while finding thoughtful ways to use AI to make recruiting faster, smarter, and more human.

What you’ll do

• Translate business and workforce priorities into a clear, actionable hiring strategy
• Lead, coach, and develop the Talent Acquisition team, creating clarity around priorities, ownership, and performance
• Partner closely with senior leaders and People Business Partners on workforce planning, role design, talent profiles, and hiring decisions
• Lead or stay closely involved in critical and senior-level searches
• Build strong talent pipelines for current and future business needs
• Help leaders clearly define the capabilities, skills, and outcomes required for each role before beginning a search
• Establish consistent, high-quality hiring practices across sourcing, assessment, interviewing, selection, and closing
• Use data to identify trends, assess recruiting effectiveness, and help the business make better talent decisions
• Improve hiring-manager capability through practical tools, coaching, and clear expectations
• Own, prioritize and continuously improve the candidate interview experience
• Evaluate how AI, automation, and emerging tools can improve recruiting workflows while preserving human judgment and connection
• Partner with People Operations, Total Rewards, Finance, and Legal to ensure hiring practices are scalable, competitive, and compliant
• Manage external search partners and recruiting vendors when needed
• Strengthen our employer brand and how we communicate our story to prospective talent

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading Talent Acquisition in a fast-moving, scaling, global organization
• Experience in SaaS platform based technology
• Experience managing and developing recruiters on an international team
• A track record of partnering with senior executives and influencing hiring and workforce decisions
• The ability to move comfortably between strategy and execution with strong operational rigor
• Strong business judgment and the ability to connect talent decisions to company priorities
• Experience building structured, consistent, and inclusive hiring practices
• A data-oriented approach, with experience using recruiting metrics to identify problems and improve outcomes
• Strong coaching and communication skills, particularly with hiring managers and senior leaders
• Curiosity about AI and how it can improve both recruiting operations and the quality of talent decisions
• Comfort operating through ambiguity, change, and competing priorities
• A high level of ownership, follow-through, and attention to the candidate and employee experience

Benefits

• Competitive and equitable market rates
• Performance and proficiency-based compensation
• Proactive adjustments based on market movements
• Participation in Total Rewards plan, including health & medical benefits, flexible spending accounts, flexible PTO, and more

Company Description

Salsify’s mission is to empower brand manufacturers to win on the digital shelf. Helping brand manufacturers to win online is what we do. Our culture is who we are. We are empowered. We are positive thinkers. We take action. We care deeply. These values have driven Salsify’s growth and earned the company numerous top workplace awards.

We are headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and have hubs in Lisbon (Portugal) and Sydney (Australia). If you are excited to work in a fast-paced environment with a team that values agility, curiosity, and passion, we want to hear from you!