Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant

About the role

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant, you will serve as a trusted business advisor, talent market expert, and advocate for a strong candidate experience. You will lead full life‑cycle recruiting across multiple functions, helping leaders define success, identify needed capabilities, and build recruiting strategies that deliver the right people.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring leaders to understand business goals, team needs, and desired outcomes for each hire.
• Build recruiting strategies using market insight, sourcing data, compensation context, and candidate evidence.
• Manage multiple searches while maintaining responsiveness, quality, accuracy, and a strong candidate experience.
• Proactively identify and engage active and passive candidates through professional networks, sourcing platforms, referrals, events, and AI‑enabled tools.
• Conduct structured, behavioral interviews to assess skills, experience, competencies, motivation, and readiness.
• Provide clear candidate recommendations and respectfully challenge assumptions when evidence, market, or business need suggests a different approach.
• Build long‑term relationships and talent communities across PowerSchool and the EdTech market.
• Continuously improve recruiting practices, tools, processes, and experiences.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

• 5+ years of full life‑cycle recruiting experience in a corporate, staffing, or search environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent requisitions across different functions or levels.
• Demonstrated success developing proactive sourcing strategies for active and passive candidates.
• Experience using behavioral interviewing techniques and translating evidence into candidate recommendations.
• Experience advising hiring leaders throughout the recruiting and selection process.
• Experience using an applicant tracking system and sourcing technologies.
• Ability to travel approximately 5% to 10% for business needs.

Preferred qualifications

• Recruiting experience in SaaS, technology, EdTech, or another complex professional environment.
• Staffing or executive search experience.
• Workday Recruiting experience.
• Experience using AI‑enabled recruiting or sourcing tools.
• PHR, SPHR, SHRM‑CP, SHRM‑SCP, or comparable certification.

Skills

• Strong business acumen and sound judgment.
• Clear communication and ability to influence through trust.
• Translating business needs into recruiting strategy.
• Advising leaders with confidence and credibility.
• Building relationships across levels and functions.
• Using market insight and evidence to improve hiring decisions.
• Creating proactive talent pipelines.
• Balancing ownership and urgency with thoughtful judgment.
• Delivering a customer and candidate experience built on ownership, urgency, relationships, and service.

Compensation

Compensation may vary based on relevant skills and experience, education, certifications, internal equity, pay ranges, and market data.

Benefits

PowerSchool offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Medical, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Parental leave
• Discretionary Time Off
• Wellness programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Additional voluntary benefits

Location and Travel

This is a hybrid position based in Plano, TX. Regular onsite presence is expected based on team and business needs, with occasional travel of approximately 5% to 10%.