Jason Liesen

About Jason Liesen

With over six years of experience at Wiley, I lead global talent acquisition efforts as Vice President, specializing in executive recruitment and strategic hiring across APAC, EMEA, and the US. I have built Wiley’s first internal executive recruitment function, successfully managing end-to-end recruitment for critical leadership roles, including Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, and Global CIO, among others. My leadership emphasizes precision, collaboration, and timely delivery in diverse, high-stakes recruitment scenarios. My expertise lies in talent acquisition leadership, leveraging AI tools to enhance recruitment processes. About Wiley: Wiley is on a compelling transformation in the knowledge economy right now — a 218-year-old institution that has emerged as a genuine infrastructure player in the AI era through execution, not aspiration. The company sits on an irreplaceable corpus of 9M+ peer-reviewed articles that is legally clean, provenance-verified, and increasingly the foundation that major AI companies — Anthropic, AWS, Mistral, Perplexity — are licensing to ground their models in trusted science. What makes this moment rare for an executive is the combination that almost never coexists: a stable, profitable enterprise base with long-term institutional relationships, running alongside a purpose-built corporate AI and data business being resourced to move at startup speed. The problems are hard, the data moat is real, the partnerships are live, and the mandate is clear. If you want to build something that matters at a scale most companies can only claim, Wiley is worth a serious conversation.

Experience

1. VP, Talent Acquistion & Executive Recruitment

   Wiley

   Mar 2020 — Present

   Recruited to build from scratch the first internal executive recruitment function in the company’s history during a period of large-scale transformation for the organization.•Promoted to additionally lead the entire global Talent Acquisition team in APAC, EMEA, and US as VP, Talent Acquisition.•I lead end-to-end strategic executive recruiting for roles across all divisions and functions in 40 plus countries in (US, EMEA, APAC),on many urgent time sensitive deadlines inclusive of roles Chief AI Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, Chief Marketing Officer (UK), General Manager-Technology (China), Global Head of Tax, VP-Global Govt Partnerships & Public Policy, SVP-HR, VP-Employment Law, VP-Ecommerce, VP-Data Protection & Privacy, Head of Corporate Development, Corp VP-Product Management.•Executive Coaching of high potential leaders.•Collaborated with the Talent Management team to deliver and define the internal high potential pipeline to increase cross company promotions.•Lead Workday Recruiting and AI recruiting tool HiredScore implementation globally.•Experienced leveraging AI tools including Claude and Copilot. Visit us at Page:https://careers.wiley.com/Email:j••••••@wiley.com

Education

• Eastern Illinois University

  Bachelor's degree

Skills

• Temporary Staffing
• Payroll
• Leadership
• Direct Placement
• Rpo
• Talent Acquisition
• Strategic Sourcing
• Passive Candidate Generation
• Internet Recruiting
• Microsoft Word
• Resume Writing
• Team Leadership
• Permanent Placement
• Technical Recruiting
• Job Search
• Screening Resumes
• Benefits Administration
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Human Resources
• HR Consulting
• Professional Services
• Corporate Recruiting
• Recruiting
• Contract Recruitment
• Temporary Placement