Lead Talent Acquisition Partner

About the role

As a Lead Talent Acquisition Partner supporting Go-to-Market hiring, you will serve as a strategic talent advisor responsible for managing the full recruitment lifecycle across a variety of GTM functions. You will partner closely with hiring managers to develop talent strategies, proactively source exceptional candidates, and drive efficient, high-quality hiring outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full-cycle recruiting process for a portfolio of GTM positions from intake through offer acceptance.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand business objectives, workforce plans, and hiring priorities.
• Develop sourcing strategies that leverage LinkedIn Recruiter, networking, referrals, talent communities, and market research to identify top talent.
• Build and maintain strong candidate pipelines for current and future hiring needs.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders by providing market insights, talent trends, competitive intelligence, and recruiting best practices.
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience through proactive communication and thoughtful interview management.
• Facilitate structured interview processes and guide hiring teams on effective interviewing and selection practices.
• Utilize recruiting metrics and data to drive hiring decisions and improve recruiting effectiveness.
• Collaborate with Recruiting Coordinators, Talent Intelligence, Recruiting Operations, HR Business Partners, and Compensation throughout the hiring process.
• Ensure recruiting activities are compliant with employment laws and company policies.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve recruiting processes, candidate experience, and operational efficiency.
• Mentor newer recruiters and contribute to knowledge sharing across the recruiting organization.

Requirements

You are a relationship-driven recruiter who thrives in a fast-paced, consultative environment. You are equally comfortable engaging executive stakeholders, sourcing passive talent, analyzing recruiting data, and delivering a world-class candidate experience. You bring curiosity, resilience, and a continuous improvement mindset to everything you do. You enjoy solving hiring challenges, influencing business leaders, and finding innovative ways to attract exceptional talent.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, preferably supporting direct seller organizations.
• Experience recruiting within a SaaS or enterprise technology organization.
• Experience recruiting for one or more of the following functions: Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Professional Services, Revenue Operations, or Corporate Functions.
• Demonstrated success sourcing passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing channels.
• Experience partnering directly with hiring managers to develop recruiting strategies and influence hiring decisions.
• Strong interviewing and candidate assessment skills.
• Experience managing multiple requisitions simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and recruiting technologies.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and recruiting tools.
• Passion for leveraging AI and emerging recruiting technologies to improve efficiency and candidate experience.

Skills

You bring curiosity, resilience, and a continuous improvement mindset to everything you do. You enjoy solving hiring challenges, influencing business leaders, and finding innovative ways to attract exceptional talent.

Benefits

The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation.

Learn more about UKG’s benefits and rewards at https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $115,100 to $165,450. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location.

Company Overview

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge.

Equal Opportunity Employer

UKG is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, disability, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories. View The EEO Know Your Rights poster here. UKG participates in E-Verify. View the E-Verify posters here.

Disability Accommodation

For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com.