Director Talent Acquisition

Director of Talent Acquisition

Location: Vaughan (Hybrid - minimum 3 days from office in Vaughan)

Regions: Canada, U.S., India

Reports to: CEO

Company: TechBlocks — an engineering-led, cloud- and AI-native software services firm with GCC delivery in India and onshore leadership in North America.

Role Summary

Own TechBlocks’ global people engine with a heavy emphasis on Talent Acquisition. You will architect and run a high velocity hiring and retention machine across Canada, the U.S., and India for a multi-shore software engineering services model. This role requires a proven leader from IT services who blends executive search, large-scale technical recruiting, vendor ecosystems, and region-specific retention playbooks—while safeguarding cost, speed, and quality.

What You’ll Lead

Talent Acquisition (70%)

• Build and run a multi-shore TA operating model (Canada/U.S. onshore + India GCC) covering product engineering, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), data/AI, QA, DevOps, architecture, and program leadership.
• Stand up 90-day hiring sprints / pilot factories aligned to account ramps with strict SLAs (time-to-offer, time-to-start, offer-to-join).
• Create a tiered partner network (boutiques, specialist agencies, subcontractors) for surge capacity and niche skills at short notice; negotiate rate cards and outcome-based terms.
• Drive executive hiring & talent hunting for client-facing leaders (Client Partners, Delivery Directors, Chief Architects, Practice Heads).
• Build evergreen talent communities (GitHub, Kaggle, , meetups, universities) and referral engines; spearhead campus + lateral pipelines in India and North America.
• Implement assessment standards (tech screens, code tests, architecture cases, role simulations) with quality-of-hire feedback loops from Delivery.

HR & People Ops (30%)

• Own retention & engagement programs tailored to each region (India focus on offer-to-join, buy-outs, counteroffers, early-tenure stickiness; NA focus on EVP, flexible work, leadership pathways).
• Calibrate comp & benefits across regions (banding, market indexes, variable pay for delivery KPIs; PEPM optimization).
• Ensure compliance (Canada ESA, U.S. FLSA/EEO, India Shops & Establishments, PoSH), immigration/mobility, and auditable HR operations.
• Partner with Practices to run guilds/CoEs, career frameworks, and learning paths (cloud certs, Snowflake/dbt, AI/GenAI, SRE).
• Champion a respectful, performance-driven culture aligned with TechBlocks’ engineering DNA and AI-native strategy.

Qualifications

• 10–15+ years in IT services HR/TA; 5+ years leading multi-shore (US/Canada + India) talent engines.
• Deep fluency in India hiring dynamics (buy-outs, counters, notice periods, joining ratios) and North America senior-talent markets.
• Proven build-out of GCCs / delivery centers, surge hiring for account ramps, and executive search for client-facing leaders.
• Strong vendor ecosystem management: boutiques, subcontractors, and RPOs; skilled in rate card, outcome-based and gain-share constructs.
• Data-driven operator: funnels, SLAs, forecasting, capacity models; expert with ATS (Greenhouse/Lever), HRIS (Workday/Bamboo), Recruiter, and technical assessments (HackerRank/CodeSignal).
• Cultural fluency and negotiation across India and North America; crisp executive communication with C-suite and client leaders.

Core Competencies

• Operator’s rigor: program management, dashboards, cadence, escalations.
• Talent hunter: networks in cloud/data/AI/modern engineering; story-seller of our EVP.
• Cost & speed discipline: balances quality with commercial realities.
• Partnership builder: universities, meetups, bootcamps, specialist vendors.
• Change leader: designs policies that scale without killing agility.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience supporting regulated/asset-heavy clients (utilities, energy) and retail/commerce.
• Familiarity with pilot-factory or 90-day wave models, and outcome-based staffing constructs.

Why TechBlocks: Join an engineering-led, AI-native services firm building platforms for blue-chip clients. You’ll own the people engine that powers our growth across Canada, the U.S., and India.