# Director/a de Talento (Director of Talent) – Santiago, Chile

**Company**: Thinkingbox
**Location**: Santiago
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: CLP 5-7 per-month-salary
**Category**: Human Resources

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## Description

We're looking for a strategic, people-focused, and hands-on Director of Talent to lead resource management and HR initiatives for our Chile operations.

This is a dynamic role that combines workforce planning, people operations, and talent strategy.

**Resource Management & Workforce Planning**

- Lead resource planning and allocation for the Chile team, partnering with creative, production, and operations leads to staff projects effectively.

- Track capacity, utilization, and upcoming needs, and work with leadership to close staffing gaps.

- Manage our network of freelance creative and production talent, making sure engagements are set up in line with Chilean law.

- Improve resourcing processes, tools, and reporting, and collaborate with North American teams on cross-office staffing.

**Human Resources & People Operations**

- Partner with the Group Director of People to deliver HR support for employees, managers, and leadership in Chile across the full employee lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding.

- Coach managers on employee relations, performance conversations, and people challenges, escalating complex cases to the Group Director of People.

- Work with the Group Director of People to keep Thinkingbox compliant with Chilean labour law, including internal workplace rules (Reglamento Interno), the Ley Karin harassment-prevention protocol, and filings with the Labour Directorate, with support from legal and external advisors.

- Coordinate HR administration, benefits, and payroll-related processes with the Group Director of People, Finance, and external providers.

**Global Collaboration & Talent Strategy**

- Serve as the key link between Chile leadership and the North American Talent team, aligning HR practices and people initiatives.

- Share local market insights and compensation benchmarks to inform business decisions.

- Build scalable people processes as the Chile operation grows.

- Promote a consistent employee experience across locations while respecting local culture and legislation.

**Requirements**

- Fluency in Spanish and English, written and verbal, to work with our North American teams.

- Legal authorization to work in Chile.

- 5+ years of progressive experience across resource management, human resources, people operations, or workforce planning, including leadership experience.

- Experience working in an advertising agency, creative studio, production company, technology company, or similarly fast-paced environment.

- Strong understanding of the Chilean employment landscape and local labour laws.

- Demonstrated experience managing resource allocation, capacity planning, and freelance workforce coordination.

- Solid background in HR operations, employee relations, performance management, and organizational development.

- Experience collaborating with international teams, ideally across North America.

- Strong relationship-building, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

- Ability to balance business priorities with employee needs and organizational culture.

- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and evolving business needs.

- A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to work both strategically and hands-on.

## Skills

### Required
- Spanish
- English
- resource management
- human resources
- people operations
- workforce planning
- Chilean labour laws

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