The Role
The Senior Talent Partner will oversee full-cycle recruiting for leadership positions, partner with executives, develop sourcing strategies, and ensure compliance with hiring regulations.
Summary Generated by Built In
Nium, Global Leader in Payments
Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders.
Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 220+ markets, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 35 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore.
About the Role
As a Senior Talent Partner, you will own full-cycle recruiting for key leadership, technical, and go-to-market roles across the U.S. and globally. You’ll partner closely with executives, hiring managers, and HR to build scalable hiring processes, deliver outstanding candidate experiences, and influence talent strategy in a rapidly scaling fintech environment.
This is a high-impact, high-visibility role ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced global organizations and is comfortable operating with autonomy while managing C Level Stakeholders.
What You’ll Do
- Lead full-cycle recruitment for complex and senior-level roles across Engineering, Product, Compliance, GTM, and Corporate functions.
- Partner with C Level leaders in the U.S. and globally to define role requirements, hiring strategy, and selection criteria.
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies to build diverse pipelines in competitive markets, particularly within fintech and payments.
- Drive data-informed hiring decisions, including pipeline analytics, market insights, and compensation benchmarking.
- Own the candidate experience end-to-end, ensuring consistent, transparent, and high-touch interactions.
- Champion employer branding initiatives across North America through events, thought leadership, and recruitment marketing.
- Optimize and scale recruiting processes, tools, and assessment methodologies to support a high-growth environment.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with People Ops, HRBPs, and Finance on headcount planning, offer approvals, and onboarding.
- Advise and coach hiring managers on interviewing best practices, inclusive hiring, and market-driven strategies.
- Ensure compliance with all U.S. hiring regulations, including EEO, DE&I best practices, and data privacy standards.
What You Bring
- 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or talent partner capacity.
- Experience hiring across fintech, payments, SaaS, or high-growth tech environments.
- Track record of owning senior or niche searches with strong business impact.
- Strong business acumen and comfort working directly with executives and global stakeholders.
- Expertise in sourcing complex talent using advanced tools, networks, and market intelligence.
- Exceptional communication skills—skilled at influencing, advising, and storytelling.
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and globally distributed environment.
- Experience with Lever ATS platforms and data-driven recruiting tools.
- A passion for building equitable, scalable, and world-class hiring programs.
What we offer at Nium
We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.
We Care: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).
We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend.
We Constantly Innovate: Since our inception, Nium has received constant recognition and awards for how we approach both our business and talent opportunities. Check out CNBC World’s Top Fintech Companies 2024.
We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!
We Thrive With Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.
For more detailed region-specific benefits: https://www.nium.com/careers#careers-perks
For more information, visit www.nium.com.
Depending on your location, certain laws may regulate the way Nium manages the data of candidates. By submitting your job application, you are agreeing and acknowledging that you have read and understand our Candidate Privacy Notice located at www.nium.com/privacy/candidate-privacy-notice.
Nium provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Nium complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Nium expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
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The Company
What We Do
Nium is an advanced payments platform redefining the way consumers and businesses send, spend, and receive funds across borders. Nium’s goal is to make the movement of money seamless through being a universal plug for financial services. The company uses agile, elegant, and modular solutions for complex business problems. Be it an Individual, new-age digital bank, or a traditional industry behemoth, Nium prides itself on creating financial infrastructure for every level of sophistication.
Nium’s key solutions:
• Pay-ins
• Pay-outs
• Card issuance
• Banking-as-a-service
• Crypto-as-a-service
We are a global leader in B2B modern money movement
• Launched the world’s first global platform for crypto-as-a-service
• $280M Funding
• Series D
• $2B Valuation
o 130+M End customers
o 190+ Payout markets
o 100+ Supported currencies
• Named on CB Insight’s Fintech 250 List
• Financial Times’ List of Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies 2021
• Fintech Employer of the Year’ at the 2021 Singapore Fintech Festival
• Best B2B Payment Platform’ at the 2021 Future Digital Awards
Why Work With Us
We, at Nium, are on a mission to transform modern money movement. We are driven by our co-created values of "seek the simple", "make it better" and "win it together".
These aren't just buzzwords; they're how we do business every day and owned by each and every employee at Nium. We create new rules and new possibilities for a world of open money.
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