Senior Director - Experienced Advisor Acquisition

About the role

The Senior Director, Experienced Advisor Acquisition provides strategic leadership for the firm’s advisor and client-facing talent attraction efforts, ensuring the acquisition of high-quality, growth-oriented professionals aligned with firm values and long-term objectives. This role partners closely with senior leadership, Finance, Business HR, and field leadership to anticipate workforce needs, build proactive pipelines, and deliver a best-in-class candidate experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive experienced advisor recruitment strategy aligned with enterprise growth goals and workforce planning priorities.
• Partner with senior business, field, and business HR leaders to anticipate advisor and client-facing talent needs and build scalable, proactive pipelines.
• Lead and mentor a large team of talent acquisition professionals promoting accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee full-cycle recruiting for experienced financial advisors and related client-facing roles, ensuring quality, compliance, and speed-to-fill.
• Lead higher-touch senior and executive search processes for senior advisors, field leadership, and executive roles, including confidential searches.
• Establish clear protocols for internal recruiting versus external search firm engagement, negotiating and managing vendor relationships to ensure cost-effective delivery.
• Ensure a world-class candidate experience across sourcing, interviewing, offer, and onboarding phases.
• Owning and continuously improving recruiting processes, stakeholder communication practices, and feedback loops with hiring managers and candidates.
• Drive the implementation, optimization, and effective use of Greenhouse ATS, including workflow design, training, reporting, and data integrity.
• Establish and monitor recruiting metrics and dashboards to drive data-informed decision-making and long-term quality-of-hire outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 15+ years of relevant experience, including experience with:
• Talent acquisition strategy and workforce planning
• Experienced advisor and professional services recruiting models
• Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and recruiting analytics
• Employment law and recruiting compliance requirements

Qualifications

People Leaders are expected to maintain strong leadership visibility, collaboration, and connection across the firm. For People Leaders who choose to reside outside a commutable distance from a campus location, the role requires regular travel to support these expectations. This role will require presence at a home office campus, or other firm-related travel, for one full week per month.

Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness)
• Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account
• 10 paid holidays
• 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism
• Eligibility for bonuses and profit sharing
• Employee Assistance Program

Pay

Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

Schedule

This role will require presence at a home office campus, or other firm-related travel, for one full week per month. For travel purposes, a "full week" is defined as a minimum of four consecutive days on campus. Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office four days per week.