As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
ROLE OVERVIEW
We're looking for a Senior Talent Manager with strong experience in freelance and contractor recruitment lo lead and scale our external workforce hiring. This role is ideal for someone with solid recruitment operations experience who thruves in fast-paced, high volume environment and is confident working in high complex and demanding projects.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage a team of Talent Acquisition professionals focused on hiring freelancers and independant contractors.
- Drive high-volume hiring (10,000 to 12,000 hires anually) across multiple projects and regions.
- Collaborate closely with clients to understand their evolving hiring needs.
- Lead the recruitment planning, sourcing strategy, and process optimisation for contingency workforce.
- Report on hiring performance, team productivity and project progression.
- Ensure quality of hire and efficient time-to-fill metrics.
- Partner with legal and compliance to support freelance hiring best practices.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum 3 years of experience managing talent teams.
- Proven track record in high-volume talent acquistion.
- Solid background in recruitment and talent acquisition - Not HR.
- Experience hiring freelancers, contractors, and flexible workforce models is a must.
- Strong communication skills.
- Commercial vision.
- Ability to manage pressure and prioritise in fast-moving environments.
- Comfortable with recruitment tools, ATS, and reporting dashboards.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience working in international or multinational markets.
- Exposure to the AI Services industry.
- Multilingual background.
If you understand the dynamics of freelance hiring and thrive in high-volume and fast-paced environments, we'd love to hear from you.
Job Reference: #LI-JC1
