Head of Recruiting – Marketing & Creative Talent

Location: Remote – United States

Role Overview

Ride The Wave is seeking a strategic, hands-on Head of Recruiting to lead talent acquisition as the company scales toward approximately 100 hires next year. The role will focus on building a high-volume recruiting engine for entry-level Social Media Managers across Latin America while hiring specialized marketing, creative, and business professionals.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruiting strategy, sourcing, screening, interviews, offers, and hiring delivery.

• Lead high-volume recruitment for approximately 90 Social Media Managers across LATAM and 10 specialized positions.

• Recruit marketing and creative talent, including Social Media Managers, Copywriters, Content Creators, Digital Marketers, and CRO Specialists.

• Build scalable sourcing strategies, talent pipelines, and standardized candidate assessment processes.

• Manage recruiting agencies, external vendors, hiring budgets, and cost-per-hire.

• Establish recruiting KPIs, monitor time-to-fill, and report hiring progress to leadership.

• Coordinate onboarding, employment documentation, and HR compliance with relevant specialists.

• Optimize recruiting workflows, team capacity, and hiring costs as the business grows.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience leading full-cycle recruiting in a U.S.-based or U.S.-focused organization.

• Demonstrated success hiring marketing, creative, social media, or digital marketing professionals.

• Experience managing high-volume hiring and international or LATAM recruitment.

• Strong expertise in sourcing, ATS platforms, agency management, and recruiting analytics.

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and process-building skills.

• Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, scaling business.

Work Arrangement: Fully remote within the United States.