Lead Talent Acquisition Partner

About the Role:

As the Lead Recruiter for Southeast Asia, you'll lead the hiring strategy for our Sales and Go-to-Market organisation across ASEAN while partnering on selected hiring across North Asia. You'll work directly with senior business leaders to build exceptional teams that fuel CrowdStrike's continued growth.

This is a highly visible role where you'll influence workforce planning, shape talent strategy, leverage AI to transform recruiting practices, and deliver outstanding hiring outcomes across multiple countries. You'll also provide day-to-day leadership and coaching to another recruiter while helping elevate recruiting excellence across the APJ Talent Acquisition team.

Location: Singapore

What You'll Do:

Strategic Talent Partner

• Partner with Sales and GTM leadership to develop workforce plans and hiring strategies aligned to business growth.

• Provide market intelligence, competitor insights and talent trends to influence hiring decisions.

• Act as the trusted Talent Acquisition advisor to senior leaders across the business.

• Use talent data and market insights to challenge hiring assumptions and influence workforce decisions.

Recruiting Excellence

• Lead full lifecycle recruiting across Sales, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Marketing and other Go-To-Market functions.

• Build proactive talent pipelines through direct sourcing, networking, referrals and market mapping.

• Continuously raise the quality of talent entering CrowdStrike by driving rigorous assessment, calibration and structured hiring practices.

• Deliver an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.

Innovation

• Champion the use of AI and automation to improve recruiter productivity, candidate engagement and hiring quality.

• Drive regional and global Talent Acquisition initiatives that improve how we hire.

Leadership

• Provide coaching, mentoring and performance guidance to another recruiter while helping build a high-performing recruiting culture across APJ.

• Share best practices across the APJ recruiting team and help continuously improve recruiting capability.

Operational Excellence

• Maintain accurate recruiting data and reporting within Workday and other recruiting platforms.

• Use recruiting metrics to identify trends and continuously improve hiring outcomes.

What You'll Need:

• Experience working within a software/SaaS vendor

• Demonstrated success recruiting complex Sales and Go-to-Market organisations across ASEAN within a high-growth technology company

• Ability to run projects within a matrix environment

• Extensive experience in direct hiring methods such as headhunting, search, advertising, database search and referral campaigns

• Experience hiring across multiple ASEAN markets including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam.

• Proven ability to build trusted partnerships and influence VP and Executive-level stakeholders across multiple business functions.

• Ability to influence without authority in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

• Strong data literacy and ability to use recruiting metrics to drive decisions.

• An understanding of the different attraction methods, selection & assessment tools/techniques and how and when to use them

• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

• Working knowledge of employment legislation and recruitment compliance across the region.

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent vacancies while delivering against ambitious timelines and high-quality hiring standards.

• Collaborative team player who enjoys sharing knowledge and supporting colleagues across the APJ Talent Acquisition team.

• Excellent fluency in English is a must have as, from time to time you will be required to work across the APJ region

• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.

Bonus Points:

• Cyber Security or Enterprise SaaS recruiting experience.

• Previous Team Lead or people management experience.

• Experience recruiting across APJ within a global matrix organisation.

• Experience with Workday, Greenhouse, Candidate.FYI, BrightHire or similar recruiting technology.