The Talent Acquisition Partner will play a key role in how we attract and hire top talent to support our growing team. Working closely with the hiring managers and key internal stakeholders, you will ensure we bring in the best professionals to drive our business forward. This role involves managing the full recruitment lifecycle, from sourcing and screening candidates, coordinating interviews, coaching hiring teams in interview best practices, and facilitating hiring decisions.
While following our clients refined internal recruitment standards, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by identifying and securing high-quality talent. You’ll work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, leading recruitment and talent management efforts, predominantly in our North American offices and sometimes in our other offices.
What you will be doing as a Talent Acquisition Partner:
- Partner with hiring managers – digging deeper to help them define job requirements, understand roles, and identify key success factors.
- Create and maintain job descriptions and online job postings.
- Use innovative sourcing methods, including LinkedIn headhunting, specialized job boards, local professional networks, and sometimes partnering with external recruiters to fill challenging roles.
- Conduct initial phone screenings to introduce candidates, interview them to assess fit, and provide additional insights into the role and team.
- Evaluate candidate suitability and make autonomous decisions on progression to meet with hiring managers.
- Manage our ATS (Workable), using it to move candidates through the recruiting process, manage seamless communication with candidates, collaborate with hiring managers, and report on activity.
- Schedule interviews and coordinate interview details with candidates and hiring teams (supported by the Office Manager).
- Facilitate and participate in first stage (virtual) and (in-person) face-to-face interviews, ensuring fairness and productivity in the interview process.
- Collect and consolidate hiring manager feedback to maintain momentum in the hiring process and ensure we identify the best candidate for the role that aligns with the opportunity.
- Prepare and present offers to selected candidates, ensuring a smooth negotiation and acceptance process.
- Lead initial onboarding of new hires so they transition seamlessly into their roles and work with the internal cross-functional onboarding team to make this happen.
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience in recruitment, either in a staffing agency or in-house, preferably within professional services, technology, or high-growth startups.
- Proven ability to manage and successfully fill 5+ job vacancies simultaneously.
- Bachelor’s degree is required, e.g., Business Administration, English or Communications, it is not necessary to have completed a HR specific degree.
- Strong interpersonal skills and acute emotional intelligence to build effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external candidates, at all levels within an organization.
- Passion for the recruiting process and educating less experienced hiring managers in the art of excellent recruiting practices.
- Highly detail-oriented with the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
- Resilience and self-motivation to manage changing priorities and continue to drive performance and success.
- Sales and/or negotiation experience is a plus but not required.
- Resourceful and assumes good judgement, seeking clarity when you don’t know, always asking why.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.).
- Experience working with an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and other Human Resources software.
