Team Lead, Talent Acquisition

Job Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruiting for corporate, professional, technical, sales, operations, and leadership positions.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand hiring needs, develop recruiting strategies, and establish realistic expectations.
• Build proactive talent pipelines for critical and recurring positions.
• Utilize LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS/CRM platforms, referrals, networking, and other sourcing channels to identify qualified candidates.
• Provide hiring managers with market intelligence related to compensation, talent availability, competitive hiring activity, and candidate trends.
• Ensure a positive candidate experience from initial engagement through offer and onboarding.
• Serve as a subject-matter resource and informal leader for the Talent Acquisition team.
• Coach and mentor recruiters on sourcing, candidate engagement, interviewing, closing, and search strategy.
• Aid in onboarding and training new Talent Acquisition team members.
• Develop recruiting playbooks, templates, interview guides, sourcing strategies, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruiting workflows, tools, and processes.
• Track and analyze Talent Acquisition metrics, including time-to-fill, pipeline activity, source effectiveness, interview-to-offer ratios, offer acceptance rates, quality of hire, and recruiter productivity.
• Identify recruiting trends and opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Help establish consistent reporting and performance visibility across the Talent Acquisition organization.
• Use data and analytics to influence recruiting strategy and hiring decisions.
• Build strong relationships with business leaders and hiring managers.
• Participate in workforce planning and talent strategy discussions.
• Partner with HR and business leadership on organizational growth initiatives.
• Support employer branding, talent-market initiatives, career events, and corporate recruiting programs.
• Stay current on labor-market trends, recruiting technology, compensation trends, and evolving Talent Acquisition practices.
• Partner with internal sales or commercial leadership where recruiting expertise can support business initiatives.
• Support recruiting-related presentations, internal initiatives, and strategic business development efforts as appropriate.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
• Experience: 5+ years of Talent Acquisition or recruiting experience. Demonstrated success managing full-cycle corporate recruiting. Experience recruiting across multiple functions and organizational levels. Experience partnering directly with hiring managers and business leadership. Demonstrated experience mentoring, coaching, or leading other recruiters. Previous experience as a Senior Recruiter, Lead Recruiter, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, or TA Manager preferred. Experience building recruiting processes, training programs, or enablement initiatives preferred. Experience supporting sales, technical, corporate, or leadership recruiting preferred. Experience with recruiting technology optimization or ATS implementation preferred. Exposure to workforce planning or talent strategy preferred.
• Skills: Full-cycle recruiting and talent acquisition. Advanced sourcing and candidate engagement. Hiring manager and stakeholder partnership. Recruiting strategy and talent pipeline development. Recruiting metrics and performance analytics. Coaching and mentoring. Process improvement and workflow optimization. Strong verbal and written communication. Relationship management and collaboration. Strong organizational and project management abilities. Data-driven decision-making. Ability to operate strategically while remaining hands-on. Proficiency with ATS/CRM platforms and modern recruiting technology. Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools.

Key Competencies

• Strategic Thinking
• Leverage & Team Development
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Business Acumen
• Relationship Building
• Communication & Presentation
• Candidate Engagement
• Data-Driven Decision Making
• Analytical & Critical Thinking
• Process Improvement
• Problem Solving
• Collaboration & Teamwork
• Organization & Time Management
• Adaptability
• Initiative & Resourcefulness
• Results Orientation
• Ability to Influence
• Customer-Service Mindset