US Talent Lead
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First paragraph: "The Talent Lead roleThis is a hand-on recruiting role, leading recruitment efforts in the US across New York and San Francisco. We are a US team of about 60 people, and growing at pace. You’ll be responsible for ensuring we hire brilliant talent in real time and getting ahead of future needs. You’ll report to the Global Head of Talent who sits in London and manage the US Talent Acquisition Manager who sits in New York. You’re motivated when recruiting at a seriously high bar and building a recruiting engine to drive quality and growth. You can sit with leaders in the business and talk requirements, deeply understanding the skills and expertise we need across the business. This is a role for someone who wants to be an expert recruiter in a high-performing, fast-scaling, intellectually demanding professional services environment. You will draw on your prior experience recruiting for corporate communications and/or corporate public relations roles. You’re already using LLMs to enhance and support your work, and are ideally experimenting with how recruitment-centric AI tools and automation can be additive. You are excited at the prospect of joining an agency that has placed a huge bet on how AI is going to transform the advisory world of comms, policy and research. Milltown Partners..."
That's about the role. We'll put in About the role section: a paragraph summarizing.
Next: "Our clients operate at the frontiers of innovation..." That's company description; could be part of About the role or maybe not needed. But we can include in About the role as context.
Then "What you'll do" with bullet-like paragraphs. We'll convert each sentence or clause into list items under Responsibilities.
Let's extract responsibilities:
- Oversee end-to-end US hiring, drawing on prior experience to manage a world-class candidate experience and be hands-on in all aspects of delivery.
- Work with US COO, Global Head of Talent, and People team to ensure alignment on recruitment priorities for the US team
- Manage, and collaborate with, the US Talent Acquisition Manager in order to best divide and conquer live briefs as well as driving long-term improvements to our approach to the US talent market
- Manage and execute a world-class candidate experience from first contact to close
- Run a comprehensive kick off process to align on profile and process for each role, and prepare the interview team accordingly
- Oversee and deliver sourcing strategy from advertising to outreach to managing recruiter agency relationships
- Ensure deliberate attention is paid to diversifying our candidate pipeline
- Lead the practical execution of recruitment activity for the roles you’re owning e.g. candidate liaison, calendar management, running introductory calls
- Deliver internal US interviewer training
- Pipeline development: Take the long-term view to building a sustainable pipeline of brilliant communications and policy talent in the US.
- Develop a deep understanding of Milltown's work and talent strategy
- Build and maintain an active network of candidates, market contacts, and peers across the US communications and policy advisory landscape
- Use market intelligence to inform sourcing strategy: where the best talent is, what they are looking for, and how Milltown competes
- Contribute insights on compensation, talent availability, and competitor activity internally to the Global People & Talent function
- Internal collaboration: Build and maintain trusted relationships with leaders across the US business as well as the wider People & Talent team.
- Ensure consistent, high quality and advisory-led communications with US leaders about recruitment activity
- Escalate risks, delays, or misalignments to relevant leadership early and with a proposed solution
- Act as a close collaborator to the Head of Talent to continuously spot opportunities for improvement, refinement and creativity across recruitment activity
- Collaborate with the wider People & Talent team to ensure seamless integration between recruitment activity and company DEI efforts, marketing activity and employee experience
- Insights and tools: Underpin all your work with an insight-led approach, drawing on both evidence and experience.
- Use data and insight to drive continuous improvement in hiring quality: tracking pipeline conversion, assessing the quality of assessment at each stage, and identifying patterns that can inform better decisions
- Use AI tools and efficient workflows to improve the quality and efficiency of the Talent teams’ delivery
- Contribute to the development of our Talent toolkit: team materials and templates
- Maintain clean and accurate records in Lever (or any future ATS platform) at all times, and coach interviewers to use the tool effectively
- Contribute to collegiate development
- Manage the US Talent Acquisition Manager’s day-to-day work; acting as their first port of call for questions, feedback and collaboration
- Act as the US Talent Acquisition Manager’s Development Coach; providing developmental support, identifying stretch opportunities, and providing clear performance feedback
- Spot opportunities to contribute and collaborate with the wider People & Talent team, sharing in the responsibility to hold yourself and others to high standards as well as fostering a culture where exceptional advice, continuous learning and collaboration are the norm.
That's a lot. We'll put as
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Now Requirements (essential skills and experience):
From "What we're looking for" essential:
- Minimum 8 years' recruitment experience, in the communications/ PR/ public affairs space (e.g., in-house with a consultancy, RPO, or specialist recruitment agency)
- Strong track record of running end-to-end processes in a fast-paced high-quality environment, including managing multiple live roles
- Confident stakeholder manager: able to push back, set expectations, and build credibility quickly with senior people
- Solid understanding of the US communications, public affairs, or professional services talent market
- Proficient with LinkedIn Recruiter and an ATS (Lever experience advantageous)
- Experience using LLMs (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) effectively, safely and critically in a work setting
- Strong communication skills: able to write compelling job adverts and clear candidate-facing materials, run prioritisation exercises with senior team members, facilitate kick-off sessions
- Intellectual curiosity to develop subject matter expertise in new topics and share that knowledge with colleagues
- Collaborative instincts and a genuine commitment to contributing to an inclusive culture
We'll list these.
Skills (desirable):
- Experience experimenting with AI tools that are specifically designed to support people and talent functions
- Experience working in a scaling environment
Now Benefits (Why join us):
List:
- Competitive, transparent pay with open salary bands, plus twice-yearly bonuses
- 401(k) with company match, eligible from day one
- Robust healthcare options, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus dedicated mental health support
- 26 days PTO, 10 sick days, and 10 public holidays
- Two-week company-wide winter break
- Paid parental leave
- Sabbatical leave
- $100/month commuter benefit
- Hybrid working model with three days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)
- Structured career development with clear progression pathways and a defined career framework
But note: Pay and Schedule sections separate. The instruction says: include Pay and Schedule sections only if posting actually states them. The posting does state pay (competitive transparent pay...) and schedule (Hybrid working model...). So we should separate those out from Benefits. Benefits likely refer to other benefits: healthcare, 401k, PTO, etc. Pay section: "Competitive, transparent pay with open salary bands, plus twice-yearly bonuses". Schedule section: "Hybrid working model with three days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)". Also maybe "Two-week company-wide winter break" could be considered schedule but it's a benefit. We'll keep as benefit.
Thus Benefits section will list: 401(k) with company match, Robust healthcare options, 26 days PTO..., Two-week company-wide winter break, Paid parental leave, Sabbatical leave, $100/month commuter benefit, Structured career development...
Pay section: Competitive, transparent pay with open salary bands, plus twice-yearly bonuses.
Schedule section: Hybrid working model with three days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).
Now About the role: we need a paragraph summarizing. We'll combine the initial description and maybe company description.
Let's craft a concise paragraph: "The Talent Lead is a hands-on recruiting role leading recruitment efforts for the US team across New York and San Francisco. Reporting to the Global Head of Talent in London and managing the US Talent Acquisition Manager in New York, you will oversee end-to-end hiring, build a world-class candidate experience, develop sourcing strategies, partner with business leaders, and drive pipeline development for communications and policy talent. You’ll leverage your experience in corporate communications/PR recruiting, use LLMs and AI tools to enhance recruitment, and contribute to a high‑performing, fast‑scaling, intellectually demanding professional services environment."
That's substantive and preserves details.
Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no markdown fences.
We'll structure:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- ...
...
Skills
- ...
...
Benefits
- ...
...
Pay
Competitive, transparent pay with open salary bands, plus twice-yearly bonuses.
Schedule
Hybrid working model with three days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).
Make sure not to include empty sections.
Now verify we didn't miss any substantive info: The description also mentions "Milltown Partners" and description of clients etc. We included in About the role maybe not fully. Could add a sentence about the firm: "Milltown Partners advises technology companies, global investors, iconic brands and influential individuals on communications and policy challenges, and is pioneering AI‑enhanced advisory work." That's substantive. Let's incorporate into About the role paragraph.
Thus About the role paragraph: "The Talent Lead
for prose. We need to extract details. Let's parse the posting. First paragraph: "The Talent Lead roleThis is a hand-on recruiting role, leading recruitment efforts in the US across New York and San Francisco. We are a US team of about 60 people, and growing at pace. You’ll be responsible for ensuring we hire brilliant talent in real time and getting ahead of future needs. You’ll report to the Global Head of Talent who sits in London and manage the US Talent Acquisition Manager who sits in New York. You’re motivated when recruiting at a seriously high bar and building a recruiting engine to drive quality and growth. You can sit with leaders in the business and talk requirements, deeply understanding the skills and expertise we need across the business. This is a role for someone who wants to be an expert recruiter in a high-performing, fast-scaling, intellectually demanding professional services environment. You will draw on your prior experience recruiting for corporate communications and/or corporate public relations roles. You’re already using LLMs to enhance and support your work, and are ideally experimenting with how recruitment-centric AI tools and automation can be additive. You are excited at the prospect of joining an agency that has placed a huge bet on how AI is going to transform the advisory world of comms, policy and research. Milltown Partners..." That's about the role. We'll put in About the role section: a paragraph summarizing. Next: "Our clients operate at the frontiers of innovation..." That's company description; could be part of About the role or maybe not needed. But we can include in About the role as context. Then "What you'll do" with bullet-like paragraphs. We'll convert each sentence or clause into list items under Responsibilities. Let's extract responsibilities: - Oversee end-to-end US hiring, drawing on prior experience to manage a world-class candidate experience and be hands-on in all aspects of delivery. - Work with US COO, Global Head of Talent, and People team to ensure alignment on recruitment priorities for the US team - Manage, and collaborate with, the US Talent Acquisition Manager in order to best divide and conquer live briefs as well as driving long-term improvements to our approach to the US talent market - Manage and execute a world-class candidate experience from first contact to close - Run a comprehensive kick off process to align on profile and process for each role, and prepare the interview team accordingly - Oversee and deliver sourcing strategy from advertising to outreach to managing recruiter agency relationships - Ensure deliberate attention is paid to diversifying our candidate pipeline - Lead the practical execution of recruitment activity for the roles you’re owning e.g. candidate liaison, calendar management, running introductory calls - Deliver internal US interviewer training - Pipeline development: Take the long-term view to building a sustainable pipeline of brilliant communications and policy talent in the US. - Develop a deep understanding of Milltown's work and talent strategy - Build and maintain an active network of candidates, market contacts, and peers across the US communications and policy advisory landscape - Use market intelligence to inform sourcing strategy: where the best talent is, what they are looking for, and how Milltown competes - Contribute insights on compensation, talent availability, and competitor activity internally to the Global People & Talent function - Internal collaboration: Build and maintain trusted relationships with leaders across the US business as well as the wider People & Talent team. - Ensure consistent, high quality and advisory-led communications with US leaders about recruitment activity - Escalate risks, delays, or misalignments to relevant leadership early and with a proposed solution - Act as a close collaborator to the Head of Talent to continuously spot opportunities for improvement, refinement and creativity across recruitment activity - Collaborate with the wider People & Talent team to ensure seamless integration between recruitment activity and company DEI efforts, marketing activity and employee experience - Insights and tools: Underpin all your work with an insight-led approach, drawing on both evidence and experience. - Use data and insight to drive continuous improvement in hiring quality: tracking pipeline conversion, assessing the quality of assessment at each stage, and identifying patterns that can inform better decisions - Use AI tools and efficient workflows to improve the quality and efficiency of the Talent teams’ delivery - Contribute to the development of our Talent toolkit: team materials and templates - Maintain clean and accurate records in Lever (or any future ATS platform) at all times, and coach interviewers to use the tool effectively - Contribute to collegiate development - Manage the US Talent Acquisition Manager’s day-to-day work; acting as their first port of call for questions, feedback and collaboration - Act as the US Talent Acquisition Manager’s Development Coach; providing developmental support, identifying stretch opportunities, and providing clear performance feedback - Spot opportunities to contribute and collaborate with the wider People & Talent team, sharing in the responsibility to hold yourself and others to high standards as well as fostering a culture where exceptional advice, continuous learning and collaboration are the norm. That's a lot. We'll put as
- items.
Now Requirements (essential skills and experience):
From "What we're looking for" essential:
- Minimum 8 years' recruitment experience, in the communications/ PR/ public affairs space (e.g., in-house with a consultancy, RPO, or specialist recruitment agency)
- Strong track record of running end-to-end processes in a fast-paced high-quality environment, including managing multiple live roles
- Confident stakeholder manager: able to push back, set expectations, and build credibility quickly with senior people
- Solid understanding of the US communications, public affairs, or professional services talent market
- Proficient with LinkedIn Recruiter and an ATS (Lever experience advantageous)
- Experience using LLMs (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) effectively, safely and critically in a work setting
- Strong communication skills: able to write compelling job adverts and clear candidate-facing materials, run prioritisation exercises with senior team members, facilitate kick-off sessions
- Intellectual curiosity to develop subject matter expertise in new topics and share that knowledge with colleagues
- Collaborative instincts and a genuine commitment to contributing to an inclusive culture
We'll list these.
Skills (desirable):
- Experience experimenting with AI tools that are specifically designed to support people and talent functions
- Experience working in a scaling environment
Now Benefits (Why join us):
List:
- Competitive, transparent pay with open salary bands, plus twice-yearly bonuses
- 401(k) with company match, eligible from day one
- Robust healthcare options, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus dedicated mental health support
- 26 days PTO, 10 sick days, and 10 public holidays
- Two-week company-wide winter break
- Paid parental leave
- Sabbatical leave
- $100/month commuter benefit
- Hybrid working model with three days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)
- Structured career development with clear progression pathways and a defined career framework
But note: Pay and Schedule sections separate. The instruction says: include Pay and Schedule sections only if posting actually states them. The posting does state pay (competitive transparent pay...) and schedule (Hybrid working model...). So we should separate those out from Benefits. Benefits likely refer to other benefits: healthcare, 401k, PTO, etc. Pay section: "Competitive, transparent pay with open salary bands, plus twice-yearly bonuses". Schedule section: "Hybrid working model with three days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)". Also maybe "Two-week company-wide winter break" could be considered schedule but it's a benefit. We'll keep as benefit.
Thus Benefits section will list: 401(k) with company match, Robust healthcare options, 26 days PTO..., Two-week company-wide winter break, Paid parental leave, Sabbatical leave, $100/month commuter benefit, Structured career development...
Pay section: Competitive, transparent pay with open salary bands, plus twice-yearly bonuses.
Schedule section: Hybrid working model with three days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).
Now About the role: we need a paragraph summarizing. We'll combine the initial description and maybe company description.
Let's craft a concise paragraph: "The Talent Lead is a hands-on recruiting role leading recruitment efforts for the US team across New York and San Francisco. Reporting to the Global Head of Talent in London and managing the US Talent Acquisition Manager in New York, you will oversee end-to-end hiring, build a world-class candidate experience, develop sourcing strategies, partner with business leaders, and drive pipeline development for communications and policy talent. You’ll leverage your experience in corporate communications/PR recruiting, use LLMs and AI tools to enhance recruitment, and contribute to a high‑performing, fast‑scaling, intellectually demanding professional services environment."
That's substantive and preserves details.
Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no markdown fences.
We'll structure:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Skills
- ... ...
Benefits
- ... ...
Pay
Competitive, transparent pay with open salary bands, plus twice-yearly bonuses.
Schedule
Hybrid working model with three days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).
Make sure not to include empty sections. Now verify we didn't miss any substantive info: The description also mentions "Milltown Partners" and description of clients etc. We included in About the role maybe not fully. Could add a sentence about the firm: "Milltown Partners advises technology companies, global investors, iconic brands and influential individuals on communications and policy challenges, and is pioneering AI‑enhanced advisory work." That's substantive. Let's incorporate into About the role paragraph. Thus About the role paragraph: "The Talent Lead