Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Costa Rica

Job title: Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Costa Rica

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the primary Talent Acquisition partner supporting the opening and growth of Cornerstone’s new Costa Rica location.

• Manage full-cycle recruiting across a diverse portfolio of roles, with an initial focus on G&A, Customer Support, Professional Services, and other business functions.

• Provide recruiting support for roles in the U.S. and other global locations as business needs and priorities require.

• Lead searches for senior and executive-level positions as needed.

• Partner closely with hiring managers to understand business needs, define the skills required for success, and provide insight into the talent and capabilities available in the Costa Rica market.

• Use market intelligence and a solutions-oriented approach to help leaders adjust talent strategies, identify transferable skills, and explore alternative talent pools when needed.

• Provide expertise on the Costa Rica talent market, particularly the technology and multinational employer landscape.

• Manage and provide direction to local recruiting resources and external partners, including RPO support, to ensure quality, consistency, speed, and a strong candidate and hiring-manager experience.

• Help establish scalable recruiting processes, operating rhythms, reporting, and best practices as we build the Costa Rica organization.

• Partner across Talent Acquisition, People, Finance, Legal, and other functions to support the operational requirements of opening a new location.

• Help navigate the Talent Acquisition complexities associated with beginning operations through an Employer of Record (EOR) and transitioning to our local entity and office following establishment of our Free Trade Zone (FTZ) structure.

• Help establish Cornerstone’s employer brand and talent presence in Costa Rica.

• Serve as a culture carrier and help establish the foundation for how our Costa Rica team operates, collaborates, and grows.

• What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years of recruiting experience, including at least 2 years within a technology company.

• Strong knowledge of the Costa Rica talent market, particularly the technology and multinational employer landscape.

• Experience recruiting across G&A, Customer Support, Professional Services, and related functions.

• Experience leading executive and senior-level searches.

• Demonstrated ability to operate as both a hands-on recruiter and a recruiting leader, including experience managing or providing direction to RPOs, agencies, contractors, or other recruiting resources.

• Strong talent advisory skills and the ability to use market intelligence to help hiring managers develop realistic and effective talent strategies.

• Experience helping build or scale recruiting processes and operations in a new or rapidly growing environment.

• Strong Talent Acquisition operations knowledge, including recruiting processes, technology, reporting, vendors, and compliance.

• Experience supporting an EOR, new-country launch, entity transition, FTZ environment, or similar international expansion is a plus.

• Ability to thrive in a build environment where priorities will evolve as the organization grows.

• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence leaders across functions and levels.

• Fluency in English and Spanish.

• Our Growing Presence in Costa Rica

• Cornerstone is excited to be building a new hub in Costa Rica as part of our continued investment in growing our global talent and capabilities. We are bringing together teams across a variety of functions, creating exciting opportunities for people to join us at the ground floor of this new chapter and help shape how we grow in the region.

• We have invested in a new office in Costa Rica, with construction beginning soon, and we expect our presence and capabilities in the region to continue expanding over time. For those joining us now, this is a unique opportunity to help build something from the beginning, work alongside talented colleagues across Cornerstone globally, and be part of our longer-term growth in Costa Rica.

• Employment Structure

• As we establish our operations in Costa Rica and complete the process to operate under the country’s Free Trade Zone Regime, Cornerstone is partnering with Recluta, our local Employer of Record (EOR).

• Our Culture

• Spark Greatness. Shatter Boundaries. Share Success. Are you ready? Because here, right now – is where the future of work is happening. Where curious disruptors and change innovators like you are helping communities and customers enable everyone – anywhere – to learn, grow and advance. To be better tomorrow than they are today.

• Who We Are

• At Cornerstone, we believe in AI that works in the service of people, amplifying their judgment to drive high-performing, future-ready organizations forward. Cornerstone Workforce AI, the intelligence platform for workforce readiness, brings together workforce and labor market data into a proprietary Cornerstone People Graph, translating signals into intelligence, targeting learning where it matters, developing critical skills, and surfacing hidden talent. Delivered as an open, enterprise platform across whatever application your people work in every day, Cornerstone Workforce AI is built for scale, security, and trust, with certified AI guardrails. As an industry leader, Cornerstone is helping approximately 7,000 organizations, 140M+ users, across 186 countries build continuous workforce readiness.