Manager, Talent Acquisition – APAC, Greater China & Global Professional Services

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company! 

We’re looking for a strategic and dynamic Talent Acquisition Manager to lead hiring across APAC, Greater China, and our Global Professional Services teams. This is an opportunity to build, innovate, and truly own recruitment across some of our most dynamic markets.

You’ll lead a lean but mighty team of recruiters, work closely with business leaders, and shape how we attract and hire the best talent. If you love making things happen, thrive in fast-moving environments, and enjoy connecting people with the right opportunities, this is the role for you.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of three regionally distributed Talent Acquisition Partners, ensuring they achieve excellence in sourcing, hiring, and stakeholder management. Actively coach them in refining their skills, problem-solving, and delivering results.
• Own and drive all hiring activities for the Global Professional Services business, ensuring the team meets hiring goals with high-quality talent.
• Proactively assess and improve hiring quality, using data-driven insights to refine sourcing strategies, selection processes, and long-term talent outcomes.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, working closely with their teams to address talent gaps and ensure recruitment aligns with business priorities.
• Lead workforce planning in partnership with FP&A, ensuring hiring plans and budget allocation are efficient and aligned with organizational growth.
• Design and execute the TA strategy for APAC and Greater China, taking ownership of its implementation and continuously optimizing it based on market conditions and hiring outcomes.
• Streamline and scale hiring processes, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and a seamless experience for candidates, hiring managers, and recruiters.
• Personally engage with senior hires when needed, taking a hands-on approach to sourcing, assessing, and closing top leadership talent.
• Enhance internal mobility and succession planning, building proactive pipelines to ensure key roles are filled with the right talent at the right time.
• Strengthen Taboola’s employer brand in APAC and Greater China by developing partnerships with key agencies, organizations, and industry groups, particularly in tech and diversity.
• Equip hiring managers and interviewers with the skills and knowledge needed to assess talent effectively, through structured training and coaching.
• Drive a data-centric approach to recruitment, regularly analyzing hiring KPIs and market trends to identify opportunities for improvement and ensure accountability.
• Stay connected to industry trends, competitor strategies, and talent market shifts, leveraging insights to refine hiring practices and future-proof the function

To thrive in this role you’ll need:

• You come with 7+ years of end-to-end recruitment experience in high-growth tech companies.
• You’re an experienced people manager with at least 3 years of leading Talent Acquisition teams.
• You understand the APAC and Greater China talent landscape and know how to navigate it.
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity, enjoy exploring the unknown, and know how to bring people together to make things happen.
• You think in data—you track key hiring metrics, spot trends, and use insights to improve the way we hire.
• You’re an expert at building relationships—whether it’s with hiring managers, candidates, or external partners, you know how to connect and influence.
• You know how to find great talent beyond just LinkedIn—whether it’s sourcing creatively, leveraging networks, or using the latest tools.
• You thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment and enjoy finding solutions to new challenges.
• You care deeply about diversity and inclusion and know how to build diverse teams.
• You’re fluent in English (written and verbal); additional languages from APAC are a plus!

Why this role?

• You’ll play a key role in shaping Taboola’s future by hiring smart, passionate and driven individuals to build out Taboola’s rapidly growing business 
• You’ll use your expertise and market knowledge to influence business decisions and contribute to Taboola’s success.
• You’ll enjoy a fast-paced, data-driven environment where you can make a real difference.
• You’ll be part of a fun, creative, and supportive Talent Acquisition team that values collaboration and innovation.
• You’ll work closely with a variety of teams and departments, building strong relationships and contributing to a positive and collaborative work environment.
• You’ll have opportunities to expand your skills and knowledge and advance your career in a dynamic and rewarding field

Why Taboola? 

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.
• Well-being: Enjoy a range of locally relevant benefits and workplace perks.
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
• Work with some of the biggest names: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.-

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About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.