Are you looking for full ownership and leadership of a Talent function in a growing scale-up that's making a positive change in the world?

 

Virtual Internships is an EdTech scaleup that delivers global work experience programs that help young people to pursue their dream careers.

We’re proud to be in ‘Tech in Asia’s Top 50 Rising Startup’ List (No.6 in Vietnam) and a winner of The Escape 100: the top purposeful organizations to ‘escape’ to in 2022. Backed by some of the world’s top investors who were early investors in Airbnb, Zoom and LinkedIn, you'll be joining a diverse and passionate team of 130+ working in our hub office in HCMC, and across 25+ countries that believe that remote work is here to stay.

 

Our team is growing, fast, in every area, and we plan to increase the global team to up to over 250 people by the end of 2022. It’s going to be an extremely exciting few years, and we’re looking for someone equally excited to tackle all of this growth. That’s where you come in!

The Role

You’ll join our Talent/ People team of 6, which is made up of an Interim Head of Talent from the UK, Head of People and HR Intern from India and a TAM, HR Associate and HR Intern from Vietnam.

We’re looking for a Head of Talent Acquisition to take us through the next stage of growth and enable us to hire an additional 100 people by the end of 2022.

Working with a world-class globally distributed team, you will:

• Collaborate with hiring managers to understand the requirements and also provide education on recruitment processes

• Continually refine our employer branding and marketing recruitment strategies and activities

• Partner with the Head of People on our benefits and package offering to ensure we’re competitive in the market

• Working with the COO and hiring managers, anticipate likely resource needs in each team and develop sourcing strategies - including optimizing the use of external recruiters vs. other channels

• Improve upon the recruitment and interview process- developing scorecards, training the TA and hiring managers, creating better structures etc.

• For Heads of and C suite positions- manage the end-to-end recruitment process, including sourcing, screening and - jointly with the hiring manager - selecting and converting new hires

• Lead initiatives to increase “top of funnel” job applicants such as working with university careers services, proactive outreach, employee referral programmes etc.

• Network online and offline with potential candidates to promote our employer's brand

• Track and analyze metrics and report on hiring progress; and drive continuous improvement in those metrics, such as reducing time-to-hire