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Why project44?
At project44, we believe in better.
We challenge the status quo because we know a better supply chain isn’t just possible—it’s essential. Better for our customers. Better for their business. Better for the world.
With our Decision Intelligence Platform, Movement, we’re redefining how global supply chains operate. By transforming fragmented logistics data into real-time, AI-powered insights, we empower companies to connect instantly, see clearly, act decisively, and automate intelligently. Our Supply Chain AI enhances visibility, drives smarter execution, and unlocks next-generation applications that keep businesses moving forward.
Headquartered in Chicago, IL, with a 2nd HQ in Bengaluru, India, project44 is powered by a diverse global team tackling some of the toughest logistics challenges with innovation, urgency, and purpose. If you’re driven to solve meaningful problems, build exceptional teams, and help shape a high-performance culture, we should talk.
What You’ll Do
As Head of Talent Acquisition, you will lead and evolve project44’s global recruiting function at an important stage of growth and transformation. We are looking for a hands-on talent acquisition leader with startup experience who can build, lead, and evolve talent acquisition in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.
This leader will bring strong executive presence, sound judgment, and a high bar for performance. You will partner closely with senior stakeholders, lead critical searches, build scalable recruiting programs, use data to improve delivery, and help ensure project44 attracts the talent needed to achieve its ambitions. This role requires equal parts strategy and execution: someone who can think ahead, operate with urgency, and deliver through ambiguity and change.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the global talent acquisition strategy and operating model in support of project44’s business priorities, growth plans, and organizational needs, leveraging AI technology to improve speed, quality and cost metrics.
- Build, mentor, and elevate a high-performing recruiting team across executive, technical, commercial, and corporate hiring.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executives and hiring leaders, bringing credibility, candor, and strong stakeholder management in complex or high-pressure situations.
- Personally lead critical executive and leadership searches, while effectively managing and partnering with external search firms when appropriate.
- Build and scale recruiting programs, processes, and mechanisms that improve hiring quality, speed, consistency, and candidate experience.
- Create an AI enabled data-driven recruiting organization by defining success metrics, reporting cadences, forecasting practices, and operational rigor across the function.
- Partner cross-functionally with People, HRBPs, Finance, and business leaders to align on hiring plans, headcount priorities, and workforce needs.
- Raise the bar on talent assessment, interview quality, and selection discipline across the company.
- Identify gaps, solve problems quickly, and implement practical solutions that improve performance and execution.
- Strengthen project44’s employer brand by ensuring the story we tell in market reflects the experience we create for candidates and employees.
What You’ll Need
- At least 12 years of talent acquisition experience, including at least 5 years of experience leading recruiting teams in high-growth, fast-changing environments.
- At least 3 years of experience leading global TA at a company at either the build out stage or during a significant transformation event
- Demonstrated success building, scaling, or transforming talent acquisition functions through periods of growth, ambiguity, or change.
- Strong executive recruiting credibility, with the ability to lead senior searches directly and influence executive stakeholders with confidence.
- Experience partnering with external search firms while maintaining strong internal ownership and execution.
- Proven ability to design and implement AI enabled recruiting programs and activities, operating rhythms, and change initiatives.
- Strong command of talent analytics, recruiting operations, and the use of AI technology and talent data to drive accountability and improve outcomes.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including the ability to build robust executive relationships in challenging circumstances.
- A hands-on leadership style and willingness to dive into searches, coach teams, and improve broken processes directly.
- Experience implementing generative and agentic AI solutions to improve recruiting operations, and hiring outcomes
- Strong communication skills, sound judgment, resilience, and a relentless focus on quality and execution.
What Will Make You Stand Out
- Experience in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, logistics, supply chain, or other complex global operating environments.
- Experience supporting teams across North America, India, and Europe.
- A track record of building recruiting capability during periods of business transformation or shifting growth priorities.
- Strong functional depth across executive hiring, talent acquisition operations, workforce planning, and talent market intelligence.
- A practical, high-accountability leadership style grounded in urgency, clarity, and follow-through.
In-office Commitment
Our office is where ideas spark, connections thrive, and innovation comes alive. We are looking for a leader who is enthusiastic and committed to joining our team on-site in Chicago four days a week. This role benefits from in-person partnership, faster decision-making, and close collaboration with business and functional leaders. Together, we’re building something extraordinary—learn, grow, and thrive in a fast-paced, transformative environment.
Diversity & Inclusion
At project44, we’re designing the future of how the world moves and is connected through trade and global supply chains. We can only deliver a truly world-class product and experience if our teams are as diverse and unique as the communities we serve. We’re focused on creating a company where all team members can bring their authentic selves to work every day.
project44 is an equal opportunity employer seeking to enrich our work environment by creating opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds and experiences to thrive. If you share our values and our passion for helping the way the world moves, we’d love to review your application.
For any accommodations needed during the hiring process, please email recruiting@project44.com. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the role requirements, you should still seriously consider applying. Studies show that candidates can still be considered for a role if they meet just 50% of the requirements.
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Why project44?
At project44, we believe in better.
We challenge the status quo because we know a better supply chain isn’t just possible—it’s essential. Better for our customers. Better for their business. Better for the world.
With our Decision Intelligence Platform, Movement, we’re redefining how global supply chains operate. By transforming fragmented logistics data into real-time, AI-powered insights, we empower companies to connect instantly, see clearly, act decisively, and automate intelligently. Our Supply Chain AI enhances visibility, drives smarter execution, and unlocks next-gen applications that keep businesses moving forward.
Headquartered in Chicago, IL, with a 2nd HQ in Bengaluru, India, we are powered by a diverse global team that is tackling the toughest logistics challenges with innovation, urgency, and purpose. If you’re driven to solve meaningful problems, leverage AI to scale rapidly, drive impact daily, and be part of a high-performance team – we should talk.
About the role:
As the Sr. Manager, People Systems & Operations you will serve as the end-to-end owner and turnaround leader for project44’s global People Systems ecosystem, with primary accountability for UKG (UltiPro).
This role is responsible for stabilizing, repairing, and re-architecting People systems and processes to ensure data integrity, payroll reliability, audit readiness, and scalable reporting across the company. This is not a steady-state systems role; it is a systems transformation mandate.
You will own global people system design and execution, with authority to drive process remediation, data clean-up, governance, and architectural improvements in close partnership with Payroll, Finance, HR, and GIS (Global Information Systems).
What You’ll Do:
Primary Accountabilities
- People Systems Ownership
- Serve as the single-threaded owner for UKG globally, with clear accountability for system health, data accuracy, and end-to-end process integrity.
- Lead a full systems turnaround, including:
- Identifying and repairing broken or fragmented people processes
- Driving large-scale data remediation, clean-up, and standardization
- Establishing clear ownership, controls, and governance across the employee lifecycle
- Own the end-to-end people systems architecture, ensuring UKG functions as a reliable system of record and integrates cleanly with Payroll, Finance, and downstream platforms.
- Make and drive decisions on process design, configuration, and prioritization, balancing short-term stabilization with long-term scalability.
- Partner with GIS to redesign, implement, and harden integrations, automation, and system dependencies.
- Establish and maintain audit-ready controls, documentation, and operating standards for people data globally.
Payroll & Finance Partnership
- Own the People systems side of payroll readiness and execution globally, ensuring payroll is system-driven, accurate, and repeatable.
- Partner closely with Global Payroll and Finance to repair upstream data issues impacting payroll, close cycles, and reporting.
- Lead payroll-related remediation efforts including:
- Data validation and correction
- Parallel runs and variance analysis
- Root-cause analysis and permanent fixes
- Ensure People system design supports strong financial controls, compliance, and confidence at scale.
Program & Stakeholder Management
- Act as the program owner for People systems transformation initiatives, from problem definition through execution and stabilization.
- Drive structured execution across complex, cross-functional work involving HR, Payroll, Finance, IT/GIS, and vendors.
- Establish clear delivery plans, risks, milestones, and decision frameworks for systems work.
- Proactively surface tradeoffs, constraints, and recommendations to People Leadership.
People Reporting & Data Insights
- Own the quality, reliability, and usability of People data across the organization.
- Lead remediation of historical data issues to enable accurate reporting on:
- Attrition and retention
- Headcount and workforce movement
- Organizational and demographic trends
- Build and maintain scalable reporting foundations that reduce manual effort and improve leadership confidence in People metrics.
- Establish clear metric definitions, data governance, and documentation.
Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- Participate as the AI champion for the People team as part of the AI Ops steering committee regarding policy governance, optimization and process and system improvements cross-functionally
- Act as an internal advocate for AI-enabled workflows within the People team, leveraging Claude to improve productivity, automate operational tasks, enhance reporting insights, and support scalable system operations across HR processes.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and standardize People processes using systems and data.
- Reduce manual work and operational risk through better system design and cross-functional alignment.
- Contribute to broader People Team transformation initiatives focused on scalability, automation, and operational rigor.
- Identify broken, manual, or high-risk People processes and lead end-to-end redesign.
- Standardize global People processes where appropriate, while accounting for regional and regulatory needs.
- Reduce operational risk and manual work through better system design, automation, and controls.
- Lay the foundation for a durable, scalable People Systems operating model that supports growth.
What You’ll Need:
Qualifications & Experience:
- 8-10+ years of experience in People Systems, HR Operations, or HRIS Management roles.
- Hands-on experience owning enterprise HRIS (preferably UKG) in a global environment.
- Strong understanding of payroll processes, data dependencies, and controls, with experience partnering closely with Payroll and Finance.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional programs involving HR, Finance, GIS, and external vendors.
- Advanced comfort working with data, reporting, and analytics (attrition, headcount, trends, reconciliations).
- Experience in a high-growth, SaaS, or global environment strongly preferred.
Capabilities & Attributes:
- Exceptionally detail-oriented with a strong bias for data accuracy and control.
- Strong programmatic and systems thinker who brings structure, clarity, and follow-through to complex initiatives.
- Confident communicator able to partner effectively across levels and functions.
- Solutions-oriented, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment.
- Naturally collaborative with a mindset of shared ownership and accountability.
- Comfortable owning messy, high-impact systems problems and driving them to resolution.
- Decisive, structured, and able to establish order in ambiguous environments with bias toward durable fixes over short-term workarounds.
- Trusted partner who can push when needed while maintaining strong cross-functional relationships.
In-office Commitment: Our office is where ideas spark, connections thrive, and innovation comes alive. We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic and committed to joining our team on-site, in our beautiful headquarters four days a week. Together, we’re building something extraordinary—learn, grow, and thrive in our fast-paced, transformative environment.
Diversity & Inclusion
We're designing the future of how the world moves and is connected through trade and global supply chains. We can only deliver a truly world-class product and experience if our teams are as diverse and unique as the communities we are building for. It's up to us to create a company where anyone can bring their authentic self to work every day. We're constantly working to improve, and we accept our responsibility to elevate the voices left in the margins. It's on every one of us.
Our focus on inclusion manifests in the way we hire, the customers we serve, and the regions we prioritize. We're building a company that every one of us at project44 is proud to work for: a company that celebrates you for being you.
We pride ourselves on celebrating everyone — project44 is an equal opportunity employer actively working on creating a diverse and inclusive work environment where underrepresented groups can thrive. If you share our values and our passion for helping the way the world moves, we’d love to review your application!
For any accommodations needed during the hiring process, please email recruiting@project44.com. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying. Studies show that you can still be considered for a role if you meet just 50% of the role’s requirements.
Ready to apply?
Apply to project44
Why project44?
At project44, we believe in better.
We challenge the status quo because we know a better supply chain isn’t just possible—it’s essential. Better for our customers. Better for their business. Better for the world.
With our Decision Intelligence Platform, Movement, we’re redefining how global supply chains operate. By transforming fragmented logistics data into real-time, AI-powered insights, we empower companies to connect instantly, see clearly, act decisively, and automate intelligently. Our Supply Chain AI enhances visibility, drives smarter execution, and unlocks next-gen applications that keep businesses moving forward.
Headquartered in Chicago, IL with a 2nd HQ in Bengaluru, India we are powered by a diverse global team that is tackling the toughest logistics challenges with innovation, urgency, and purpose. If you’re driven to solve meaningful problems, leverage AI to scale rapidly, drive impact daily, and be part of a high-performance team – we should talk.
About the role
As a Senior Recruiter, you will be the driving force behind attracting and securing world-class talent in the Americas, delivering an unparalleled candidate experience that reflects our commitment to excellence. This role partners closely with teams across p44 to fuel our growth. We’re looking for a dynamic, self-starter who is inspired by growth, passionate about Supply Chain technology, and thrives in an autonomous, fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Do:
- Be part of a small, high performing TA team, delivering outstanding experiences for candidates and hiring managers
- Own your client groups hiring plan and execution strategies partnering with executives to deliver the talent that their groups need
- Attract and hire A+ talent across Tech and G&A teams through inbound and sustained strategic outbound talent pipelining
- Support and scale multiple departments for hiring in the Americas (with occasional European hiring)
- Use data and metrics to drive operational results (e.g. high conversion ratios, time to hire)
- Build an inclusive and objective hiring process and ensures that candidates are assessed consistently against the appropriate competencies
- Source Candidates via multiple sources including:
- LinkedIn Outreach
- Networking Events (BuiltIn Chicago, Meetups, etc.)
- Job Postings (Indeed, GitHub, StackOverflow, etc.)
- Personal Network
- Manage the end to end hiring process from sourcing, screening, guiding candidates them through the interview process up to offer stage and onboarding.
- Coordinating with project44 leadership on event attendance and employer branding
- Work in our ATS (Greenhouse) to improve visibility and automation in recruiting process
- Partner with other team members on improving processes, reporting, and leveraging AI to drive speed and the quality of hiring outcomes
- Partner with finance, HR and hiring managers and project44 leadership to ensure recruiting needs are met
What You'll Need:
- 5+ years of SaaS recruiting experience
- Experience interpreting data and using it to influence hiring decisions
- Experience with Greenhouse or other ATS
- Established network and expertise in the startup tech & SaaS community
- Ability and willingness to organize, host, and attend networking events
- Strong stakeholder & interpersonal skills; ability to rapidly develop and cultivate relationships with peers, partners, and key influencers
- Confident, assertive, and metrics driven in your approach to recruitment
- Able to work independently and perform several tasks concurrently with ease and professionalism
- Able to see all tasks through to completion with a high attention to detail
- In-Office Connection: Our office is where ideas spark, connections thrive, and innovation comes alive. The expectation is to be on-site, in office four days a week as this offers the chance to immerse yourself in the energy of our headquarters, collaborate with the founder, and experience our new customer experience center. Together, we’re building something extraordinary—learn, grow, and thrive in our fast-paced, transformative environment.
Diversity & Inclusion:
At project44, we're designing the future of how the world moves and is connected through trade and global supply chains. As we work to deliver a truly world-class product and experience, we are also intentionally building teams that reflect the unique communities we serve. We’re focused on creating a company where all team members can bring their authentic selves to work every day.
We’re building a company that every one of us at project44 is proud to work for, and our journey of becoming a more diverse, equitable and inclusive organization, where all have a sense of belonging, is shaped through the actions of our leadership, global teams and individual team members. We are resolute in our belief that each team member has an equal responsibility to mold and uphold our culture.
project44 is an equal opportunity employer seeking to enrich our work environment by creating opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds and experiences to thrive. If you share our values and our passion for helping the way the world moves, we’d love to review your application!
For any accommodation needed during the hiring process, please email recruiting@project44.com. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above job description you should still seriously consider applying. Studies show that you can still be considered for a role if you meet just 50% of the role’s requirements.
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