Talent Acquisition Manager

About the role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Talent Acquisition Manager based in the United States. This role combines talent acquisition leadership with hands-on ownership of the recruiting technology ecosystem. You will lead and develop a team of recruiters while shaping scalable hiring strategies across a distributed workforce. A major focus will be building and optimizing the ATS, including pipelines, CRM workflows, scorecards, approvals, reporting, and integrations. You will also personally lead senior and executive-level searches, partnering closely with leadership and hiring managers. The position offers an opportunity to establish consistent, data-driven recruiting processes that can scale with organizational growth. You will use recruiting analytics to identify opportunities, improve efficiency, and strengthen the candidate experience. This is a high-impact role for a hands-on talent leader who enjoys combining people leadership, systems expertise, and strategic recruiting.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of recruiters by setting clear objectives, hiring priorities, performance expectations, and development plans.
• Partner with hiring managers and People Operations to forecast workforce needs and prioritize open requisitions.
• Establish and monitor recruiting metrics such as time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, source effectiveness, and pipeline conversion, providing regular reporting to HR leadership.
• Build scalable and repeatable recruiting processes for standard, high-volume, and hard-to-fill positions.
• Personally lead director-level and above searches from intake through offer, partnering directly with senior leadership on role definition, candidate strategy, interview processes, and offers.
• Lead the end-to-end development and optimization of the Applicant Tracking System, including sourcing pools, nurture campaigns, talent pipelines, and recruiting workflows.
• Configure job templates, pipeline stages, interview kits, scorecards, approval processes, and offer workflows within the ATS.
• Establish data standards, tagging conventions, and reporting dashboards to maintain accurate, consistent, and actionable recruiting data.
• Manage data flows and integrations between the ATS and other HR systems, ensuring smooth transitions from requisition through onboarding.
• Evaluate and configure sourcing and CRM tools, including outreach and sequencing platforms, career site integrations, and job board syndication.
• Serve as the internal subject-matter expert and administrator for the ATS and LinkedIn Recruiter, managing permissions, system updates, and vendor relationships.
• Ensure recruiting workflows support applicable EEO/OFCCP recordkeeping and multi-state employment requirements.
• Standardize interview and evaluation practices to promote structured, consistent, and equitable hiring decisions.
• Create and maintain ATS/CRM documentation, standard operating procedures, and training materials.
• Train recruiters and hiring managers on recruiting systems, workflows, and best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition, including at least 2 years in a recruiting leadership or team-lead capacity.
• Strong hands-on experience administering Greenhouse, including building pipelines, CRM and sourcing workflows, scorecards, dashboards, and reporting.
• Experience owning or significantly contributing to an ATS or CRM implementation, configuration, or migration is highly valuable.
• Familiarity with HRIS and payroll platforms and an understanding of how recruiting data flows through onboarding and payroll processes; UKG Ready experience is preferred.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to build recruiting dashboards and translate hiring data into actionable process improvements.
• Experience recruiting across a multi-state or geographically distributed workforce.
• Experience in logistics, transportation, supply chain, or a similarly operationally complex industry is a plus.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence hiring managers, senior leaders, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of recruiting operations, sourcing strategies, candidate pipelines, and structured hiring practices.
• Ability to balance strategic priorities with hands-on execution in a fast-growing environment.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to design scalable processes while remaining adaptable to evolving business and hiring needs.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across People Operations, leadership, and business teams.

Benefits

• Opportunity to lead and shape a Talent Acquisition function within a fast-growing organization.
• High-impact ownership of the recruiting technology ecosystem, including ATS, CRM, sourcing, reporting, and integrations.
• Opportunity to build scalable recruiting processes and infrastructure from the ground up.
• Leadership responsibility for a team of recruiters.
• Direct exposure to senior leadership and executive-level recruiting.
• Opportunity to influence recruiting strategy through data, technology, and process optimization.
• U.S.-based position supporting a distributed workforce.