Manifest Global operates within the education technology, higher education guidance, and AI-native talent mobility industry with a global workforce of approximately 200 to 500 employees. Manifest Global is building the infrastructure for how human talent finds opportunity across borders, an AI-native operating system that identifies talent, develops it, and places it at civilisational scale. Through trailblazer brands including Cialfo, Explore, BridgeU, and Kaaiser, Manifest connects students, schools, universities, and employers across more than 150 countries, backed by 91 million dollars from premier investors including Tiger Global and Square Peg Capital.
This executive role owns Talent at Manifest globally in full: the hiring engine, the employee experience, the leadership bench across every business unit, the workforce plan that keeps the organization ahead of the business, and the AI-powered infrastructure that connects the entire ecosystem. The Head of Talent translates talent strategy into executive language including capacity, capability, retention, and risk, leading a multi-brand talent structure spanning multiple geographies and acquisitions.
What You Own includes Talent Acquisition and the Hiring Engine by owning the hiring strategy and standards across every brand, geography, and level, while building a sourcing, screening, and closing engine that runs on AI-native tooling as default. Talent Operations and Employee Experience covers the full global employee lifecycle including onboarding, offboarding, compliance, compensation coordination, people analytics, and workplace support across multi-jurisdiction footprints. High-Performing Teams, Leadership Development, and Succession involves building and coaching embedded HR Business Partnering teams, owning leadership pipelines and succession coverage, and elevating manager capability across all business units. Strategic Workforce Planning and Business Alignment requires translating commercial business goals into people capacity and capability forecasting, leading quarterly business reviews, and delivering board reporting on talent metrics. Talent AI and Infrastructure entails building dedicated AI-native talent workflows across sourcing, onboarding, workforce analytics, and systems architecture. Executive Partnership and Talent Thought Leadership involves acting as a strategic talent advisor to the CEO, COO, and business heads on organizational design, M&A integrations, and industry-facing talent practices.
