Head of Organization and Talent Development

**About Circles**

Founded in 2014, Circles is a global technology company reimagining the telco industry with its SaaS platform - Circles X, helping telco operators launch and operate successful digital brands through its offerings.

Having pioneered a successful blueprint for disrupting the telco space in Singapore, Circles has since launched its own digital telco, Circles.Life, in Singapore, Taiwan and Australia. Circles has also partnered with other telco operators to launch digital services, enabling our partners to accelerate growth and capture market share within a short period of time.

Today, Circles is partnering with operators in 14 countries to deliver delightful digital experiences to millions of people through our businesses.

We are backed by global investors such as Warburg Pincus, Peak XV (f.k.a. Sequoia), EDBI and Founders Fund - renowned backers of industry-shaking innovators.

**ABOUT THIS ROLE**

Circles's People & Culture team is looking for a Head of Organisation and Talent Development. If you are passionate about uplifting people and passionate about building a greater organization, let's talk

Based in Singapore, the Head of Organizational & Talent Development will take the whelm of organization and talent development for Circles in Singapore and around the region.

Shape the life of Circles (in a scientific way)
- **Organizational Development**

Shape the way of organization set up, and uplift the organization effectiveness and efficiency via interventions such as organization design, manpower planning, and revamped performance management, to start with, and a lot more in the near future.
- **Talent Development**

Shape the leadership and capabilities, to form our competitive advantages with talents, including but not limited to leadership development, top team effectiveness (very tough, but super fulfilling), capability building, competency model, career path, etc
- **Talent engagement**

Shape the culture by instilling values into the behaviors, and leveraging employee engagement (really put the manager and employees into the equation of employee engagement).

**WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR**
- Knowing:

- In-depth knowledge and understanding of various stages of organization, principles in building great organizations
- Good understanding of leadership journey
- Structured approach to problems solving
- Advanced facilitation skills (at the top leadership level)
- Very data savvy
- Great people insights
- Doing:

- 10+ years of proven success in Organizational & Talent Development, with a combination of consulting experience and in-house experience (i know, rare; that's why we cherish a lot whoever comes through the funnel)
- Took end-to-end responsibilities in transforming an organization
- Facilitated the leadership development journey of the top team (including designing the journey and facilitated key sessions as well)
- Being:

- Self-driven (we really don't like micromanagement in the team)
- Resilient (There might be set-backs. It's ok to fall down, but it's not ok to stay down)
- Optimistic (there is nothing called a perfect organization. Turning adversity to opportunity is critical)
- Learning-agility. (we cannot get stubborn about what worked before must work here. Key is to thoroughly share your insights/design, adjust per the context here, and embrace the collective decision and fire in all cylinders to execute for results with excellence).
- Reflective (things can go wrong and they will. Always pointing fingers to others does not work here. Rather, we all need to reflect on areas that we all can do better, and initiate remedies, constantly).
- To all recruitment agencies: Circles.Life will only acknowledge resumes shared by recruitment agencies if selected in our preferred supplier partnership program._
- Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Circles.Life employees or any other company location. Circles.Life will not be held accountable for any fees related to unsolicited resumes not uploaded via our ATS._
- Circles.Life is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, disability or age._