Talent Acquisition Manager
Leads and develops Talent Acquisition Partners while shaping recruiting strategy, advising senior business leaders, and improving hiring performance through data and market intelligence. Requires 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience and at least 2–5+ years leading recruiting teams.
About the job
Responsibilities
Lead and Develop Talent Acquisition Partners
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Talent Acquisition Partners through clear expectations, feedback, career development, and performance management.
- Strengthen recruiting strategy, stakeholder management, candidate assessment, influencing, negotiation, and closing capabilities.
- Foster accountability, collaboration, inclusion, sound judgment, and continuous improvement.
- Adapt team priorities, coverage, and ways of working as hiring needs evolve.
Drive Recruiting Strategy and Performance
- Translate business priorities and hiring plans into recruiting strategies, team priorities, and execution plans.
- Ensure consistent execution from intake and search strategy through assessment, offer, and close.
- Review search performance, pipeline health, hiring velocity, and team capacity to identify risks and drive accountability.
- Provide hands-on support for complex, high-priority, or executive searches.
Partner with Business Leaders
- Advise senior leaders on hiring priorities, talent markets, workforce needs, and recruiting strategy.
- Guide leaders through talent availability, hiring tradeoffs, timelines, and market realities.
- Identify hiring risks and develop solutions with Talent Acquisition Partners and business leaders.
- Improve hiring practices, decision-making, interview quality, and candidate experience.
Use Data and Market Intelligence
- Use recruiting data, market intelligence, pipeline, funnel, hiring velocity, capacity, and performance metrics to guide decisions.
- Translate recruiting performance and talent-market insights into actionable recommendations.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition Operations on reporting and analytics.
Partner Across Talent Acquisition
- Collaborate with Sourcing, Talent Acquisition Operations, and TA leadership to align strategies, resources, and priorities.
- Improve pipeline strategy, recruiting processes, systems, analytics, enablement, workflows, technology adoption, and AI-enabled practices.
- Contribute to initiatives that improve candidate experience, team effectiveness, and scalability.
Requirements
- 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience supporting technical and/or business organizations in high-growth technology environments.
- 2–5+ years leading and developing recruiting teams.
- Experience coaching experienced Talent Acquisition Partners, setting expectations, managing performance, and building high-performing teams.
- Proven ability to partner with senior business leaders as a trusted advisor and influence hiring strategies and decisions.
- Strong recruiting expertise, business acumen, analytical skills, communication, coaching, and stakeholder management.
- Ability to translate organizational priorities and hiring plans into recruiting strategies and execution plans.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, balance strategic priorities with hands-on leadership, and adapt to changing business needs.
- Experience partnering across Sourcing, Talent Acquisition Operations, and other cross-functional teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience leading recruiting across Engineering, Product, Design, GTM, and/or G&A.
- Experience scaling recruiting and organizational growth within a high-growth technology company.
- Experience with dedicated Sourcing and Talent Acquisition Operations teams.
- Experience hiring globally across North America, EMEA, and/or APAC.
- Track record of developing recruiters into trusted business advisors while delivering against ambitious hiring goals.
Compensation
- Base salary range: $211,720–$263,980 CAD.
- Compensation also includes equity and comprehensive benefits.
Skills
Full-Cycle Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, People Management, Performance Management, Stakeholder Management, Recruiting Strategy, Candidate Assessment, Negotiation, Recruiting Analytics, Market Intelligence, Pipeline Management, Sourcing, Talent Acquisition Operations, Interviewing, Ai-Enabled Practices
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