Senior Talent Acquisition Partner (Temporary)
Circle•Los Angeles, CA
•$112,500 - $147,500•Remote
About The Position
Circle is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner for a temporary role. This position involves full-cycle recruiting for high-priority Finance, Enterprise Risk Management, Compliance, and other core business searches. The role requires strong judgment, disciplined process ownership, and comfort operating in complex, highly regulated environments. The successful candidate will be adept at using modern recruiting tools and applying AI-enabled workflows to enhance sourcing, process quality, stakeholder communication, and operational efficiency while maintaining a positive candidate experience and sound hiring judgment.
Requirements
- 4+ 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.
- Demonstrated ability to use modern recruiting technology and AI-enabled tools or workflows to improve efficiency, documentation, sourcing, or decision support.
- Experience with Workday and modern recruiting systems.
- Excellent judgment in sensitive hiring matters, including offers, internal candidates, exceptions, compensation alignment, stakeholder escalation, and candidate communications.
- Ability to separate facts from assumptions, communicate clearly, and escalate with a recommendation when risk or approval ambiguity exists.
- High attention to detail and strong system hygiene; treat recruiting systems as source-of-truth infrastructure.
- 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.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with ModernLoop, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, Google Workspace, and Slack preferred.
- Experience recruiting for Finance, Accounting, ERM, or related functions.
- Experience hiring in global markets, including entity, EOR, immigration, or jurisdiction-specific hiring considerations.
- Experience building scalable recruiting playbooks, process improvements, AI-enabled workflows, or operating procedures.
Responsibilities
- Ownership of full-cycle recruiting for Finance, Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, and other business-critical openings, including intake, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, interview process management, offer strategy, and close.
- Guide internal stakeholders on Talent Acquisition matters, including approval paths, stakeholder preferences, leveling considerations, offer mechanics, internal candidate handling, geo/entity constraints, and hiring process risk.
- Build trusted partnerships with hiring leaders and cross-functional partners by providing clear recommendations.
- Maintain accurate, current, and auditable recruiting records in Workday, ModernLoop, Gem, and other designated TA systems.
- Partner closely with TA Leadership, Total Rewards, FP&A, Legal, HRBPs, and Talent Operations to ensure offers and hiring decisions align with 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.
- Utilize AI-enabled tools and workflow automation thoughtfully to improve sourcing research, intake preparation, candidate summaries, interview-plan drafting, stakeholder updates, and other repeatable TA work, ensuring human judgment remains central to hiring decisions.
- Help strengthen recruiting operations by identifying scalable process improvements, documentation standards, and workflow automations that enhance speed, quality, and visibility.
- Participate in broader TA initiatives aimed at improving recruiting quality, speed, governance, and AI-enabled operating leverage.
Benefits
- Base Pay Range: $112,500 - $147,500
- Equal opportunity employer
- Participation in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.
- Accommodations or assistance in the interview process due to a disability can be requested.
