Director, Talent Acquisition

Location Type: On-site

 

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Who We Are

Our purpose at CloudHQ is to provide flexible, efficient and resilient data center solutions to businesses of all sizes. Our growing organization was founded by the pioneer of data center REITs. CloudHQ has state-of-the-art data center sites located in two Northern Virginia locations, as well as London, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, and Sao Paulo, and we anticipate exponential growth over the next several years both in the US and abroad.

What The Role Entails

The Director of Talent Acquisition will lead and scale global hiring for our rapidly growing data center business and expanding portfolios. This role will oversee a globally integrated talent acquisition function that delivers high-volume operational hiring as well as hard-to-fill technical and specialist roles including electrical, mechanical, commissioning, network, power, construction, project management, site operations, specialized real estate, and technical leadership positions.

This position will also oversee Talent Acquisition for CloudHQ’s sister entities, to include Cloud Capital, Dalian Development, and WindHQ.

What You Get to Do

You will drive efforts to meet aggressive growth targets across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC by building best-in-class global TA capabilities powered by data analytics and AI to enhance speed, quality, and measurable impact. This is a hands-on strategic leadership position requiring the ability to design and implement scalable programs, coach and develop senior recruiters, and personally lead searches for the most complex roles. Reporting directly to the SVP of Human Resources, you will execute comprehensive talent strategies that position CloudHQ as an employer of choice in the competitive data center and critical infrastructure market.

• Partner with executive and regional leadership to forecast workforce needs across technical, operations and support functions.
• Develop and execute a global TA strategy aligned to business growth
• Establish talent metrics and dashboards, KPIs, and analytics frameworks to measure quality of hire, time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, offer acceptance, pipeline health, source ROI and retention correlation
• Build a scalable, cost-effective TA operating model that balances centralized service, regional specialization and local execution
• Own delivery for mission-critical technical roles and executive hiring
• Use analytics to tell the TA story to stakeholders, demonstrating impact on time-to-productivity, revenue/project delivery and retention
• Implement AI-enabled tools and automation to free up recruiter time (sourcing, screening, interview scheduling, candidate experience workflows) while safeguarding fairness and quality
• Pilot generative AI for role profiling, outreach personalization, and candidate engagement; establish guardrails and governance
• Standardize best-practice recruitment processes and build exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences across regions
• Ensure recruitment practices are compliant with local employment laws and promote diverse, equitable and inclusive hiring practices
• Directly manage and mentor the US Talent Acquisition Manager and EMEA/APAC Talent Acquisition Manager
• Foster collaboration across regions while respecting local market dynamics and cultural considerations
• Create career development pathways and succession planning within the talent acquisition function
• Oversee full-cycle recruitment for critical roles including Data Center Managers, Critical Facilities Engineers, Network Engineers, and Operations Technicians.
• Negotiate and manage relationships with executive search firms and specialized technical recruiters
• Build strategic talent pipelines for hard-to-fill specializations including electrical and mechanical engineering
• Represent the company at industry conferences, university partnerships, and professional association events

Requirements

What You Bring to the Role

• 10+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience with at least 5 years in leadership roles (leading TA teams across multiple regions – US & EMEA strongly preferred)
• Proven track record building TA functions in high-growth environments (300+ hires globally annually)
• Strong experience in building recruitment capability: sourcing strategies, operations, vendor management, employer brand, and senior/executive search
• Experience with technical and operational hiring for engineering, construction, real estate, or mission-critical environments
• Data-first mindset: demonstrable experience building dashboards, using analytics to influence stakeholders, and translating TA metrics into business outcomes.
• Practical experience deploying AI / automation in recruitment
• Excellent stakeholder management, as well as exceptional communication and influencing skills; able to present insight-driven recommendations to executive & leadership teams.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced and high growth environment; high ownership and bias for action
• Experience managing geographically distributed teams and recruiting across multiple international markets
• Strong business acumen with ability to translate workforce data into actionable insights for executive stakeholders

The Director, Talent Acquisition must be based in the Washington, DC or London offices.

Preferred experience

• Background in data center, cloud services, telecommunications, or energy infrastructure industries
• Experience with complex multi-state/multi-country compliance requirements
• Familiarity with Paylocity ATS platform
• Multilingual capabilities, particularly German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Japanese

Work environment & expectations

Due to the global nature of our business and this role, availability to work outside of normal business hours will be required.

Ability to travel to company offices in the US & internationally, as needed, is expected.

What We Offer

CloudHQ’s people and culture are the most enriching aspects that make us a great place to work. We are strengthened by industry experts who bring extensive knowledge, skill, and experience; leaders who bring vision, innovation and commitment to our people; and an expanding team of individuals who believe in that vision, and bring their best to support their customers and team.

All employees benefit from competitive compensation, rewarding incentives, development opportunities, and the ability to closely impact and contribute to the growth of an exceptional organization. In addition, US employees enjoy comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability), 401(k) with match, 12 paid holidays, generous PTO. UK employees are offered private medical, dental, optical, death-in-service benefit, group income protection, pension plan with match, 25 days PTO, cycle to work scheme and more.