Senior Manager, Global Recruiting

World Strides is seeking a strategic, hands-on recruiting leader to serve as Sr. Manager, Global Recruiting
. Reporting directly to the Chief Human Resources Officer, this person will lead recruiting across executive, professional, and seasonal/high-volume hiring in the United States and key global locations, including Mérida, Toronto, London, and Australia.

The Sr. Manager, Global Recruiting, will drive recruiting strategy across executive, professional, internal, and seasonal hiring. This leader will oversee and further elevate World Strides’ established in-house executive search capability, partnering closely with the Sr. Executive Recruiter on Director-, VP-, and SVP-level searches, stepping into select high-priority assignments as needed, and engaging external firms for C-suite and specialized searches.

The role will also oversee professional hiring across corporate, technology, product, sales, operations, education, and program delivery functions, while modernizing a complex seasonal recruiting program that recently hired nearly 600 summer team members across multiple U.S. locations.

This is not a requisition management role. We are looking for a recruiting strategist who anticipates talent risks, understands the business and labor market, stays current on recruiting technology and economic trends, and builds scalable solutions before issues become urgent. One day, this person may be advising the executive team on hiring strategy; the next, they may be rebuilding a broken Greenhouse workflow or personally closing a critical search because the team needs the support.

Global Recruiting Strategy and Business Partnership

• Set and continuously evolve the global recruiting strategy, operating model, service standards, and annual priorities across executive, professional, and seasonal hiring.
• Build a deep understanding of World Strides’ business model, operating cycles, financial priorities, growth plans, and talent needs.
• Challenge assumptions about role design, level, location, skills, timing, and sourcing approach. Help leaders determine whether a position should be filled as scoped and identify internal, external, contingent, or alternative talent solutions.
• Bring forward-looking labor-market and economic intelligence to the CHRO, Executive Leadership Team, HR leaders, and business leaders, including talent availability, competitor activity, compensation pressures, location dynamics, and emerging skill needs.
• Partner with HR Business Partners and Finance on workforce planning and demand forecasting, translating business plans into realistic recruiting capacity and talent-pipeline strategies.

• Coach and support the Executive Recruiter on VP- and SVP-level searches, stepping in personally to lead when a search is especially senior, confidential, or business-critical.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for external executive search firms, negotiating scope, setting search governance, and holding firms accountable for quality, speed, candidate experience, and cost.
• Build long-term external talent maps and relationships for priority leadership roles, emerging capabilities, and succession needs, so searches don't start from zero.

• Set strategy and quality standards for professional recruiting across corporate, technology, product, sales, and program delivery, coaching and holding the Professional Recruiter accountable for execution.
• Direct the design of proactive sourcing and pipeline strategies for recurring, difficult-to-fill, and future-critical roles, guiding the use of direct sourcing, market research, professional networks, targeted campaigns, and talent communities.
• Guide efforts to strengthen internal mobility, ensuring internal talent is identified, considered, and assessed consistently; partner with HR Business Partners and talent leaders to connect recruiting with succession and development strategies.
• Establish consistent intake, assessment, selection, offer, and closing practices that raise hiring quality while improving speed and predictability.

• Provide…