Global Head of Talent Acquisition

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About Us

Scissero is an AI-enhanced legal services company built for financial institutions. We combine expert legal support with intelligent automation transforming how transactional law is delivered.

We’re not a traditional law firm. We are a diverse and globally distributed team of lawyers, engineers, and innovators working across the U.S, EMEA, and APAC. We believe technology augments, not replaces legal expertise. Our culture values collaboration, inclusivity, and flexibility.

Position Overview:

Scissero is seeking a senior, execution-focused Global Head of Talent Acquisition to build and scale our international legal workforce. This role is critical to enabling the company’s next phase of growth by ensuring reliable, cost-efficient access to high-quality legal talent across offshore and nearshore delivery locations.

This is a hands-on leadership role, operating initially as an individual contributor responsible for executing global hiring while designing scalable recruitment frameworks and workforce strategies. The role focuses on building hiring capability that supports managed legal services, legal technology delivery, and operational scaling across multiple jurisdictions.

The successful candidate will combine deep experience in legal recruitment with strong commercial awareness, workforce cost optimisation capability, and proven experience hiring into lower-cost global talent markets.

Working hours: 9-6pm GMT

Key Responsibilities:

Global Legal Talent Acquisition

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for legal, legal operations, and legal technology roles across global delivery locations.

• Execute direct sourcing, headhunting, and pipeline development for priority roles in offshore and nearshore jurisdictions.

• Build scalable talent pipelines to support growth in managed services, legal technology delivery, and client engagements.

• Partner closely with hiring managers to translate delivery needs into hiring plans and role specifications.

• Design structured, repeatable hiring processes that ensure consistency, quality, and speed across regions.

• Manage the full offer lifecycle, including compensation negotiation, candidate engagement, and hiring risk mitigation.

Workforce Cost Optimisation & Location Strategy

• Own workforce cost efficiency across global hiring by developing salary benchmarking frameworks and location-based hiring strategies.

• Provide data-driven recommendations on optimal hiring geographies based on market availability, cost structures, and operational scalability.

• Continuously evaluate talent market dynamics to inform hiring strategy and workforce planning.

• Support leadership in modelling blended workforce approaches (onshore/nearshore/offshore).

Offshore & Nearshore Legal workforce scaling

• Build hiring capability in lower-cost jurisdictions, including but not limited to Latin America, South Asia, Africa, and selected European nearshore locations.

• Establish reliable pipelines for legal production roles, lawyers, legal technologists, and hybrid legal operations professionals.

• Develop hiring approaches suitable for scaling legal delivery teams in managed service environments.

• Mitigate hiring risks in emerging talent markets through proactive sourcing strategies and local market intelligence.

ATS Ownership & Process Excellence

• Act as the internal owner of recruitment systems and hiring data quality to ensure global consistency.

• Develop, maintain, and refine structured playbooks, interview frameworks, and evaluation methodologies.

• Standardise interview structures, scoring methods, and evaluation practices.

• Build and monitor system usage, reporting, and compliance across global teams.

• Identify opportunities to improve recruitment efficiency, hiring predictability, and talent quality a the organisation scales.

Talent Market Intelligence

• Provide leadership with ongoing insights on key KPIs, including time-to-hire, pipeline strength, quality-of-hire, hiring manager satisfaction, competitor hiring activity, and salary movements.

• Use data to identify bottlenecks, drive improvements, and inform leadership decisions.

• Produce dashboards, insights, and forecasts for talent planning and organisational strategy.

Employer Brand and Talent Engagement

• Support employer branding and recruitment marketing initiatives alongside leadership and marketing.

• Represent Scissero in global talent markets and build strong relationships with passive talent.

Skills and Experience Required

• 10+ years’ experience in legal recruitment, legal talent acquisition, or workforce scaling within legal services, legal technology, alternative legal services, or similar environments.

• Strong track record recruiting for legal delivery environments such as managed services, legal operations, contract lawyer teams, or legal technology-enabled services.

• Demonstrated experience hiring legal professionals into lower-cost or offshore jurisdictions.

• Proven ability to operate as a senior individual contributor in high-growth or scaling organisations.

• Strong global sourcing and headhunting capability for niche legal and hybrid legal-technology roles.

• Experience building recruitment frameworks, structured hiring methodologies, and scalable hiring systems.

• Strong commercial awareness and ability to align hiring strategies with business growth objectives.

• Ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders in a fast-moving, evolving environment.

• An analytical mindset with the ability to use data for insights and decision-making.

• Strong relationship-building skills across all levels of the organisation.

Preferred

• Experience in alternative legal service providers (ALSPs), legal process outsourcing (LPO), or scaling legal technology companies.

• Experience hiring across multiple regions, including Latin America, South Asia, or nearshore Europe.

• Exposure to post-acquisition workforce stabilisation or integration activities.

• Familiarity with HRIS platforms, dashboards, and talent analytics tools.

• Experience supporting or implementing DEI strategies.

Key Performance Indicators

• Delivery of scalable legal hiring pipelines aligned with business growth targets.

• Improvement in workforce cost efficiency through location strategy and hiring optimisation.

• Time-to-hire, quality of hire, and retention of key legal delivery hires.

• Strength and depth of talent pipelines for priority roles.

• Efficiency and consistency of recruitment processes across regions.

Global Benefits

• Hybrid work, with the ability to request to work from other countries (upon request)

• Paid Sick Leave

• Confidential Support: Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering mental health and wellbeing support.

• Professional Development: 7 days per year of paid study leave annually for exams and structured learning.

• Annual Bonus: Discretionary and performance-based.

• Generous Paid Time Off: Annual leave + bank holidays.

At Scissero, you’ll be part of a scale-up blending law and technology to create meaningful impact. If you’re excited about redefining the future of legal services with AI, apply now to join our team.

Inclusivity

At Scissero, we value diversity in all its forms and believe that varied perspectives make us stronger. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.