Head of Talent Acquisition

Required Qualifications

• You have 10 or more years in talent acquisition, including experience leading the function through a period of real growth.
• You have built or rebuilt a hiring function, not just run one. You can point to the strategy you set, the process you changed, and the outcomes both produced.
• You lead with data. You know your funnel math, you can name your conversion rates by stage, and you use them to decide where to invest and how to size the team.
• You hold a high bar on quality and can defend it under pressure to move faster. You understand that compressing a process that is not yet producing good signal only reaches bad decisions sooner.
• You have built and scaled a recruiting team, not just managed one. You have hired recruiters and managers, designed the org, and grown headcount to match a rising hiring load.
• You are credible with executives and the board. You can push back with respect, hold the line on process, and keep senior stakeholders aligned on a shared bar.
• You use AI as a genuine multiplier on the mechanical parts of recruiting, and you have a clear point of view on where human judgment has to stay in the loop.
• “You are hands-on today. Your recent work has you inside a team, personally owning outcomes, not primarily advisory, fractional, or consulting engagements you hand off to someone else to run.”
• “You bring visible urgency to this work. You want to get in and personally fix what is broken in the first 90 days, not just describe what you would advise someone else to do.”