Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.
Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating on an unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.
We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Vice President of Talent to lead both our global talent acquisition and comprehensive talent management functions. This executive role will play a pivotal role in driving our recruitment strategy, while also leading talent management, and learning and development. As a key member of the People leadership team, you will design and execute a holistic talent strategy that attracts, develops, and retains exceptional people. You will oversee the entire talent lifecycle—from targeted recruitment campaigns and headcount planning to performance management and leadership succession.
What you’ll do1. Strategic Talent Acquisition
- Global Recruitment Strategy: Direct global recruitment initiatives and employer brand campaigns to attract high-caliber talent, improve candidate engagement, and fill critical business roles efficiently.
- Workforce & Headcount Planning: Partner with Finance and Workforce Planning leadership on headcount scenario planning against budgets to anticipate and proactively execute hiring needs.
- Recruitment Analytics: Track, optimize, and leverage key talent acquisition metrics (e.g., cost-per-hire, time-to-fill, candidate quality) to drive data-informed decisions.
- AI-Enhanced Sourcing: Leverage AI tools and technologies to automate workflows, optimize sourcing pipelines, and navigate AI talent market dynamics.
2. Talent Management & Organizational Development
- Performance Management: Design and deploy enterprise performance management systems that translate business strategies into clear goals and cultivate leadership excellence.
- Career Frameworks & Job Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-wide job architectures, career frameworks, and internal mobility systems.
- Succession & Workforce Mobility: Establish proactive succession planning models for key leadership roles while expanding internal mobility channels.
- Employee Experience & Engagement: Drive strategies that maintain strong engagement scores and sustain a positive employee culture through organizational growth and transformation.
3. Learning & Development (L&D)
- Upskilling & Capability Building: Curate skills-based learning pathways, hands-on development experiences, and leadership programs to continuously upskill the workforce.
- AI-Powered Learning Integration: Infuse modern AI capabilities into learning platforms and training workflows to accelerate skill acquisition and promote tech-forward growth.
- Build vs. Buy Strategy: Regularly evaluate external market hiring needs against internal mobility and upskilling capabilities to close critical capability gaps.
- Leadership Experience: 10+ years of progressive HR leadership with proven executive-level expertise spanning Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and Learning & Development within high-growth, complex, or global organizations.
- System & Framework Building: Demonstrated success in architecting and scaling career frameworks, performance systems, succession models, and enterprise L&D programs.
- Data & Analytics Savvy: Strong proficiency using HRIS and workforce planning platforms to track metrics like turnover, cost-per-hire, and internal mobility to influence strategy.
- AI Literacy: Hands-on familiarity with evaluating and implementing AI tools to streamline talent operations and drive AI-focused upskilling across teams.
- Strategic Partnership: Proven capability to collaborate seamlessly with senior executives, Finance, and People Team leaders to align human capital with business goals.
- Competitive pay and performance-based bonuses.
- Flexible work options.
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage.
- Generous PTO and holidays.
- Strong retirement planning support.
- Family-friendly benefits.
- Professional development opportunities.
Reasonable Accommodation
Sabre is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants applying for a Sabre position with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact Sabre at [email protected].
Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Sabre is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals. EEO IS THE LAW
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of progressive HR leadership experience
- Executive-level expertise spanning Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and Learning and Development
- Experience working within high-growth, complex, or global organizations
- Success architecting and scaling career frameworks, performance systems, succession models, and enterprise learning and development programs
- Strong proficiency using HRIS and workforce planning platforms
- Ability to use workforce and talent metrics, including turnover, cost-per-hire, and internal mobility, to influence strategy
- Hands-on familiarity evaluating and implementing AI tools for talent operations and AI-focused upskilling
- Proven ability to collaborate with senior executives, Finance, and People Team leaders
Sabre Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sabre Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Sabre Corporation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is expansive, with five weeks of PTO from day one, eight paid holidays, floating holidays, and a companywide year‑end break. Paid volunteer time further broadens available leave.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave provides 12 weeks fully paid for birth or adoption, complemented by generous bereavement leave up to 15 paid days. Disability coverage and dependent eligibility to age 26 reinforce family support.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a strong company match underpins long‑term savings. This foundation strengthens overall financial security alongside core benefits.
Sabre Corporation Insights
What We Do
We are a software and technology company that powers the global travel industry. With decades of revolutionary firsts, our team of experts drive innovation and ingenuity in the industry. Today, we are creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. We partner with airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other travel partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel. We are committed to helping customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences with next-generation technology solutions. Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives. Sabre's technology powers the nearly US$8 trillion travel industry. Our technology and data-driven solutions help our airline, hotel, travel agency and corporate customers grow their businesses and transform the traveler experience. The scale, breadth and depth of our technology is unmatched and sustains a complex industry. We provide an open and stable platform to deliver flexible, reliable and scalable solutions. Over the years, we have shaped and modernized the travel industry. We pioneered online travel agencies, corporate booking tools, revenue management, and web and mobile itinerary tools, to name a few. Our travel marketplace transacts more than US$120 billion of travel spend per year. And we are the world’s largest provider of airline and hotel technology. We have been named to the InformationWeek 500 list of the most innovative technology companies for 11 consecutive years. And InformationWeek named Sabre seventh on its list of the “Greatest Software Ever Written.”
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