Interim Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition (10 month FTC)

📝 Company Mission

Our mission is to give the world access to the best products by empowering great brands to reach their growth potential.

💼 About Wayflyer

Today's consumer brands need a capital provider that keeps pace with their growth ambitions. Traditional financing options are slow, cumbersome and often out of reach. That's why we built Wayflyer.

Our unique technology allows us to assess businesses in minutes, generate financing offers that reflect their growth potential and send funds in as little as 24 hours.

Since launching in April 2020, we've deployed over $5bn to thousands of brands worldwide, backed by Tier 1 banks like J.P. Morgan. We've become a trusted financing partner for some amazing brands, like True Classic, Little Words Project and Kekoa Foods.

Teams at Wayflyer are truly cross-functional. You'll be collaborating with ambitious colleagues from around the world - all striving to deliver on a huge opportunity. Check out this video to hear directly from them.

💛 Culture & Values at Wayflyer

At Wayflyer, we value being sound people, excellent operators, and ambitious overachievers, working together with integrity, creativity, and bold optimism to deliver exceptional results. To learn more, please visit our website.

A Day in the Life: Driving Impact and Excellence

You will optimise our Talent Acquisition function's day-to-day operations, ensuring a seamless, high-quality hiring experience for both candidates and hiring managers globally. You'll be the driving force behind our operational stability, directly impacting how quickly and effectively we scale our business. You will also lead and mentor our dedicated Talent Acquisition team, fostering a positive culture of trust, high performance and continuous improvement. Your success will be measured by your ability to maintain velocity, elevate quality, and leave the function stronger than you found it.

🚀 Your Role at a Glance: The key ways you'll bring value to the team

• Lead & Mentor: Directly manage and develop the Talent Acquisition team to achieve ambitious hiring goals while upholding our company values. A strong people manager with a track record of fostering a positive and trusting team culture is arguably going to be our biggest assessment criteria - be prepared to demonstrate your skills in this area in the interview process.

• Strategise & Execute: Own the end-to-end recruitment strategy, ensuring high-quality, efficient hiring across all regions and functions (Tech, Revenue, Business functions).

• Optimise & Scale: Identify, design, and implement immediate improvements to our processes and tech stack (ATS, reporting) to drive operational excellence and scalability. Previous experience using Ashby is strongly preferred.

• Partner & Influence: Act as a trusted strategic advisor to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and hiring managers, providing data-driven insights to inform workforce planning and hiring decisions.

• Elevate Our Brand: Actively champion Wayflyer's employee value proposition, ensuring we are attracting diverse, top-tier talent in competitive markets.

🔨 What Makes You a Great Fit

• Proven Leadership: You have significant experience (5+ years) in Talent Acquisition leadership, including managing and coaching a global or multi-regional team.

• Interim Success: You have a demonstrated track record of stepping into an interim or transitional role and rapidly delivering impact and stability.

• Operational Excellence: You are a true excellent operator with a "builder's mindset," who won't rest until a process is smarter, faster, and scalable - especially for critical metrics like time-to-hire, quality of hire and Candidate and Hiring Manager NPS.

• Global Acumen: You possess hands-on experience scaling recruitment efforts in multiple geographies, ideally including the US and Europe.

• Data-Driven: You