Talent Acquisition Director

Job Summary

The Experience of a Lifetime starts with the first moment a candidate or hiring manager engages with our Talent Acquisition to ensure their experience is aligned with business and talent strategies, differentiated against market-driven best practices, and executed with consistency and care for the candidate and hiring manager experience.

Job Responsibilities

• Delivers critical talent acquisition metrics including time-to-fill, quality of hire, and representation of candidate slates to deliver on year-round and frontline leader hiring needs for the enterprise.
• Partners with Strategic HR Business Leaders to build hiring strategies aligned to functional and enterprise talent strategies.
• Drives alignment with senior and executive committee leaders to ensure sourcing and acquisition strategies are in service of achieving business outcomes.
• Leverages and owns year-round recruiting data analysis and insights to proactively identify areas of risk/opportunity while monitoring time-to-fill, quality of hire, and talent acquisition metrics that integrate business with talent priorities.
• Achieves hiring targets for seasonal frontline leader positions in service of 'always-on' seasonal staffing strategy.
• Pairs closely with Talent Management in the context of EpicService frontline talent strategy to enable internal mobility for high-performing talent from entry/advanced to frontline leader positions.
• Lead strategic programs and enterprise change initiatives that continuously strengthen and adapt our Talent Acquisition ecosystem—including Global Mobility, Relocation, Workforce Analysis, and related talent programs—to ensure we're positioned to attract, mobilize, and retain top talent across Vail Resorts as business needs evolve.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR or related field. Master's degree preferred but not required.
• 8+ years leading strategic HR programs and teams directly related experience, preferably in a medium-large company or consultancy.
• Self-driven and have the demonstrated capability and confidence to interface effectively with senior leaders, members of the HR team, and multiple stakeholders throughout the company driving critical talent sourcing and hiring initiatives.
• Experience coaching and developing high-performing teams.
• Success in establishing and maintaining professional relationships with stakeholders.
• Ability to access team/individual solutions, needs assessments, and implementing appropriate solutions with appropriate colleagues.
• Creative problem solver.
• Effective communication both written and verbal, to clearly articulate ideas.
• Demonstrated track record of designing engaging and impactful programs that improve individual, team, and company performance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead change that drives business outcomes.