Director of HR, Global Sales

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!  

As a Director of HR, Global Sales in our New York City office, you’ll play a vital role in partnering with Sales Leadership and owning and delivering the strategic HR roadmap for the Sales organization.

Reporting to the Head of Global HR Business Partnering, OD & Learning, this individual will be a key member of the global Sales Leadership Team and will have a deep understanding of the business priorities, culture, and people challenges and opportunities faced as well as an understanding of the importance of designing global, scalable, and agile people processes to meet the needs of a dynamic, fast-growing organisation.

The role will have line management responsibility for a global team of HR Directors. It will also work in close partnership with the Chief Revenue Officer and Enterprise Sales leadership.

This is a player-coach role: while leading the global team, the individual will also be hands-on with key initiatives where their direct involvement is needed to accelerate impact.

The role requires flexibility to work across time zones, given the global nature of the Sales organizsation, and a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.

The role will have line management responsibility for a global team of HR Directors.

How you’ll make an impact:  

• Own and deliver the global HR roadmap for Sales, ensuring alignment with global and functional business priorities while balancing the Sales org’s specific needs with company-wide consistency.
• Act as a strategic advisor to Sales leadership, providing insights on workforce planning, talent strategies, org design, and change management to drive agility, efficiency, and performance. 
• Anticipate future needs faced by the global Sales organization given market trends, employee needs and company priorities and proactively offer advice and solutions. 
• Guide leaders in structuring high-performing teams, ensuring scalable and agile processes that support rapid business growth.
• Strengthen leadership capability, embedding global frameworks for talent development, succession planning, and leadership excellence to ensure a strong future talent pipeline.
• Track and measure the impact of HR strategies and initiatives within Sales, ensuring they drive meaningful improvements in team performance, leadership effectiveness, employee engagement, and business outcomes.
• Leverage AI and workforce analytics to provide real-time insights, drive smarter decision-making, enhance operational efficiency, and measure the impact of HR initiatives.
• Champion a culture of high engagement, inclusion, and continuous improvement, ensuring alignment with Taboola’s values.

To thrive in this role, you’ll need: 

• Deep global experience partnering with leaders to align people strategies with business goals and readiness to take on a strategic HRBP role in Taboola as we continue to scale globally. You can demonstrate how your work has helped teams perform better, improved workforce planning, or led to successful HR initiatives that supported business performance
• Past experience leading a high-performing global HRBP team, building trust and alignment across diverse cultures and working practices. You’ve set clear priorities, developed HRBPs into strategic, commercially-minded partners, and fostered a collaborative, inclusive team culture that delivers impact at scale.
• Strong analytical and HR metrics expertise, with the ability to measure the impact of HR strategies in Sales and translate insights into actions that drive team performance, leadership effectiveness, engagement, and business outcomes.
• Working knowledge ofd how high-performing teams are structured and have contributed to org design, workforce planning, or process improvements that made teams more efficient and scalable. You recognize the need to balance business agility with global consistency, and understand that HR solutions should work across different business groups, regions and cultures.
• High Comfort level with using people data and insights to support decision-making and are eager to further develop AI-driven HR strategies. You can show how you’ve used analytics to guide leadership decisions, improve HR processes, or measure the business impact of HR initiatives.
• Previous experience playing a major  role in talent development, performance management and/or succession planning and understand how strong leadership drives business success. You can demonstrate how your work has helped leaders grow, improved team capability, or strengthened talent pipelines.
• Experience leading regional or global HR initiatives and are prepared to take on greater leadership responsibility. You understand the role of an HRBP in a progressive, global organisation and can clearly articulate the role of HR in driving business performance.

Why Taboola?

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.
• Well Being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits (health, dental, vision, 401k matching), pre-tax commuter benefits, a fully stocked kitchen, and various gym partnerships
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
• Work with some of the biggest names: Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

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