Harman

About the Role

In this role you will serve as a strategic Talent Acquisition Manager to lead hiring across China and the broader APAC region. This role will be a critical partner to the business, enabling rapid growth, transformation, and evolving workforce needs through high-quality hiring strategies, talent insights, and scalable recruiting programs.

Your Team:

You will lead a team of senior recruiters and be responsible for end-to-end talent acquisition across corporate, commercial, engineering, R&D, operations, and functional roles (excluding manufacturing).

What You Will Do

• Design and execute regional hiring strategies aligned to business growth, transformation, and workforce planning priorities across China and APAC.
• Translate business objectives into scalable, data driven recruitment plans, including ramp-ups, new capability builds, and critical role hiring.
• Partner closely with business leaders to anticipate talent needs and proactively build pipelines.
• Deliver best in class hiring outcomes, ensuring access to top talent across competitive markets.
• Provide talent market intelligence, including benchmarking, compensation insights, supply/demand analysis, and competitor mapping.
• Use data and insights to guide decision making, improve hiring quality, and influence senior stakeholders.
• Build and sustain diverse, future ready talent pipelines for critical and niche skills set/roles.
• Lead strategic hiring programs, niche skill hiring, and regional recruitment initiatives.
• Drive innovation in sourcing strategies and recruitment methodologies across markets.
• Coach and mentor team members, fostering a high performance, accountable, and collaborative culture.
• Work closely with HR Business Partners to align talent acquisition efforts with workforce planning and organizational priorities.
• Collaborate with Rewards partners to ensure competitive offers and market alignment.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders on hiring strategy, execution, and risk mitigation.
• Ensure strong compliance with local labor laws, hiring regulations, and internal governance across all countries in scope.
• Own and drive talent acquisition KPIs, including time-to-hire, pipeline health, and candidate/hiring manager experience.
• Support divisional TA Lead to improve TA processes within region to support rapid growth and business transformation.
• Lead and support ad hoc TA initiatives driven by business needs, such as market entry, organizational redesign, or accelerated hiring needs.

What You Need to Be Successful

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition, with significant regional or global leadership experience.
• Proven experience leading China and APAC hiring, including strong exposure to Japan, Singapore, India, and/or multi country environments.
• Background in industries such as consumer electronics, audio, technology, engineering, or complex corporate environments.
• Experience hiring across corporate, commercial, engineering, R&D, and operations roles.
• Demonstrated success leading and developing a team in an international context.
• Strong capability in strategic hiring strategies, market benchmarking, and talent analytics.
• Good understanding of regional labor laws, compliance, and cultural nuances.
• Proven experience partnering closely with HRBPs, Rewards, and senior business leaders.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Understanding of and experience with Workday and Avature.
• Experience leading campus/EIC programs at scale.

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to work In Shenzhen, China office location.
• You are willing to travel, if necessary, 10% local and international.
• Due to the nature of global infrastructure, you understand that flexibility in working hours is required.