Editorial summary

The company is seeking a Recruitment Director to lead executive search and talent solutions across various industries in the Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Europe. The role offers the opportunity to operate with significant autonomy, utilizing AI support tools, and includes a compensation structure of 70% earnings of revenue. The company, established in 2006, has a global presence with teams in Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo, Beijing, and Hangzhou. The position offers a salary of 17,000 and involves managing retained and contingency mandates in a modern, flexible work environment.

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Job description

[This job id 28197 first appeared in Job-Q.com on 28 Aug 2026]

Recruitment / Practice Director – Executive Search & Talent Solutions

Freedom, creativity, search sharing, AI support tools, work from anywhere, 70% earnings of revenue (yes, true!) – basically running your own company with our support team.

We have been running Access People since 2006, and we are ready for the modern area of smart recruitment. Our teams / colleagues are currently based in Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo, Beijing and Hangzhou, searches in various industries across Asia Pacific, Middle east and Europe on both retained and contingency mandates.

As Recruitment Director, you have the freedom to structure your work in the way that suits you, a strong earnings scheme and a team that treats AI as part of the daily craft of search rather than a side experiment. If you can lead people also, we will support you to build a team around your practice.

If you wish, we will involve you in new search areas outside your focus areas and thus expand your comfort zone to include other industries, functions and locations. We have a proven track record on this!

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end search assignments for clients in Singapore and across APAC, from the initial brief through research, assessment and interview to offer and beyond

Build your client portfolio while working on mandates referred by colleagues in Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo, Beijing and Hangzhou

Act as the bridge between client and candidate: read the brief accurately, map the market properly, and deliver a considered shortlist to timeline

If relevant, hire, onboard, coach and develop Consultants through to Principal Consultant level, and help the team to a consistent delivery standard

If you wish, use AI and modern sourcing tools across research, market mapping, screening and candidate insight, and help the wider team adopt what genuinely works

Represent Access People with clients and at industry events in Singapore and the region

Contribute to the quality of our service and to how we work internally, supporting colleagues on live assignments where it improves the client outcome

Requirements

Successful in 360 degree recruitment from Recruitment consultancy / agency , and want to get to the next levels, including being awarded better for your good results.

Credibility to build trust with clients, candidates and colleagues

Strong on execution, organized and accountable, and consistent in taking a search process through to close

Collaborative by instinct and comfortable sharing market information and opportunities across a regional team

Practical and curious about applying smart AI to save time on recruitment projects, and interested in using AI tools to sharpen research, screening and client insight.

Good communication skills, additional Asian language capability is advantageous for engaging clients and candidates across APAC

If you like: Ambition to build a division and a long-term career in executive search, with the earnings that follow it. Lead by example: able to influence, motivate and develop others rather than manage from a distance

For more interest in Access People and how we work, please connect with us via LinkedIn and / or send email with info about you to Jens Purup Krog at and Zain Hussain at

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