Manager, Lateral Associate Recruiting
About the role
At K&L Gates, we are looking for smart, imaginative and hard-working people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas to join us. Perhaps our search for talented visionaries and your search for important and impactful work lead to the same place. We are seeking a Manager, Lateral Associate Recruiting to join K&L Gates. The Manager, Lateral Associate Recruiting, manages lateral associate searches across the firm's U.S. practices. The role is not assigned to a single practice; work is allocated based on practice demand, expertise, and capacity so that coverage remains flexible and workload stays equitable across the team. The Manager owns end-to-end search execution for assigned roles, leads direct-outreach sourcing, manages search firm engagement, and serves as the primary recruiting contact for hiring partners on those searches.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end lateral associate searches for assigned roles, including sourcing, screening, interview management, offer development, and handoff to onboarding.
- Execute searches against hiring priorities set by the practice Senior Managers and allocated by the Senior Manager, Associate and Entry-Level Recruiting.
- Maintain search momentum and timeline discipline across a concurrent portfolio of searches spanning multiple practices and offices.
- Establish priorities and ensure search commitments are met.
- Flex across practice groups as demand shifts, supporting cross-training and equitable distribution of work across the team.
- Lead direct-outreach sourcing, building candidate pipelines in advance of externally posting roles.
- Use recruiting platforms, market research, referrals, and networking to identify and engage lateral associate talent.
- Maintain awareness of competitor activity, associate talent movement, and market conditions relevant to assigned searches.
- Represent the firm and its practices