HR & Recruiting Lead, APAC
$150,000–$300,000 year
On-siteSingapore, Singapore
Job Summary
Build and run Inferact's talent acquisition engine across Singapore and the broader APAC region by owning searches end-to-end, from market mapping and outbound sourcing through recruiter screens, candidate management, offer support, and onboarding handoff. Identify, engage, assess, and close exceptional technical candidates in highly competitive markets, with particular emphasis on Singapore and Mandarin-speaking talent networks. Serve as an on-the-ground presence for the Singapore team while supporting practical local people operations such as benefits questions, employment pass coordination, and office-related needs. This hands-on, high-agency role focuses on creating repeatable pipelines for engineering and AI infrastructure talent rather than waiting for inbound applicants.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in business, human resources, psychology, communications, technology, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in talent acquisition, technical recruiting, executive search, or an equivalent recruiting-focused role
- Demonstrated success proactively sourcing and closing hard-to-hire technical talent rather than relying primarily on inbound applicants or an existing contact list
- Experience recruiting engineers or other highly technical profiles in Singapore, China, or the broader APAC technology market
- Fluency in Mandarin and strong professional English communication skills
- Strong relationships or demonstrated ability to build relationships across Singapore technology and AI talent communities and major Chinese technology companies
- Ability to own searches end-to-end, including intake, market mapping, outbound sourcing, screening, candidate management, stakeholder communication, offer support, and onboarding handoff
- Location: This role is based on-site in Singapore
- Work authorization: This search is focused on candidates who are already authorized to work in Singapore
Desired Qualifications
- Experience recruiting for AI infrastructure, machine learning systems, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, GPU computing, developer tools, or other deeply technical domains
- Experience building a recruiting function, regional talent program, or new-market hiring motion from 0 to 1
- Experience using LinkedIn, GitHub, research publications, technical communities, referrals, events, and other proof-of-work signals to identify candidates
- Experience partnering directly with founders, engineering leaders, and external recruiting firms in a high-growth startup environment
- Familiarity with Singapore hiring practices, local talent channels, onboarding, benefits administration, and employment pass workflows
- Comfort learning enough about vLLM, inference systems, and Inferact's technical roles to credibly engage sophisticated engineering candidates
- Built durable recruiting networks across both Singapore and Mandarin-speaking technology communities
- Recruited talent from companies such as ByteDance, Kuaishou, Baidu, Xiaohongshu, Alibaba, Tencent, Grab, Sea, TikTok, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, or similar technology organizations
- Created a repeatable sourcing engine for scarce technical talent using market maps, community research, GitHub, publications, referrals, and targeted outbound campaigns
- Supported local employee onboarding, benefits questions, office operations, or immigration coordination in Singapore
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