Talent Acquisition Partner

Key Responsibilities

• Full-Cycle Recruiting: Lead the end-to-end recruitment process from talent mapping, headhunting, sourcing, screening, and interview orchestration, through to offer formulation, compensation negotiation, and closing.
• Strategic Partnership: Act as a trusted talent advisor to business and technical leaders. Conduct intake meetings, define hiring scorecards, and provide regular market intelligence and pipeline analytics.
• Talent Sourcing & Pipelining: Proactively engage passive candidates through creative direct-sourcing strategies, referral campaigns, executive networks, and professional community engagement.
• LATAM / Global Expansion Support: Support talent acquisition initiatives across key regional markets, particularly Mexico, Brazil, and broader LATAM, navigating local hiring practices, compliance, and talent market dynamics.
• Candidate Experience: Champion a seamless, high-touch, and transparent candidate experience that reflects XPENG’s culture of innovation and agility.
• Employer Branding & Market Intelligence: Continuously track industry trends, competitor movements, and compensation benchmarks across relevant regional markets.
• Project Management: Strong project-management and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple searches, stakeholders, and deadlines simultaneously.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience: 5+ years of full-cycle talent acquisition experience, ideally within fast-paced startups, multinational firms, or other high-growth organizations.
• LATAM Market Expertise: Strong, hands-on recruiting experience in Latin America, particularly Mexico and/or Brazil, with knowledge of local talent landscapes, hiring practices, employment models, and candidate dynamics.
• End-to-End Ownership: Proven track record of independently managing and closing mid-to-senior level roles from initial outreach to onboarding.
• Work Arrangement: Willing and able to workon-site 5 days a week at our Silicon Valley office.
• Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior hiring managers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• U.S. Market Experience: Recruiting experience in the U.S. market, with knowledge of U.S. employment regulations, standard compensation practices (equity/RSUs, bonuses), and candidate closing dynamics.
• AI & Advanced Tech Recruiting: Strong, proven background recruiting for niche AI / Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Autonomous Driving, Robotics, or Core Software Engineering talent is a huge plus.
• Language Skills: Professional fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese is highly preferred. Bilingual fluency in English and Mandarin (spoken and written) is a plus for cross-border communication and alignment with global headquarters.
• Cross-Border Agility: Experience working in a global, cross-cultural organization bridging overseas entities and HQ.

What do we provide:

• A fun, supportive and engaging environment.
• Infrastructures and computational resources to support your ML model development/research.
• Opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies with the top talent in the field.
• Opportunity to make significant impact on transportation revolution by the means of advancing autonomous driving.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Snacks, lunches, dinners, and fun activities.