Recruiting Team Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a remote team of recruiters tasked with full-cycle recruiting for various skilled trades clients.

• Establish clear expectations regarding quality, urgency, accountability, and outcomes.

• Collaborate with the Client Success Manager to convert client and job-level recruiting strategies into priorities, sourcing plans, candidate profiles, and actionable metrics.

• Maintain oversight of active recruiting pipelines by monitoring sourcing activity, candidate quality, conversion rates, interview progress, follow-up, and hiring outcomes.

• Identify issues with stalled candidates, insufficient candidate flow, screening challenges, pipeline bottlenecks, and other breakdowns in the hiring process.

• Initiate corrective measures to address challenges in the recruiting and hiring funnel.

• Guide recruiters using recruiting metrics, pipeline data, and performance observations.

• Safeguard candidate quality by assessing experience, qualifications, communication skills, motivation, compensation expectations, availability, and overall fit prior to client submission.

• Incorporate pipeline data, candidate feedback, and market insights into strategy discussions.

• Suggest modifications to recruiting strategies when evidence indicates that a particular approach is ineffective.

• Work collaboratively with Client Success, recruiting operations, sourcing, support, and leadership to eliminate hiring obstacles and advance client priorities.

• Conduct a brief phone screening and interview with the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of three years of experience in recruiting or talent acquisition.

• Demonstrated experience in full-cycle recruiting.

• Strong comprehension of sourcing, screening, candidate evaluation, pipeline management, and hiring processes.

• Experience in mentoring, coaching, or leading recruiters is highly preferred.

• Excellent proficiency in written and spoken English.

• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to analyze recruiting data and identify performance issues.

• Capability to lead a remote team while maintaining accountability.

• Ability to collaborate closely with a Client Success Manager and implement established client and job-level strategies.

• Exceptional organization and follow-through across multiple clients and job openings.

• A reliable internet connection with a contingency plan for power or internet disruptions.

• Experience in recruiting for skilled trades, construction, home services, or other blue-collar positions is strongly preferred.

• Experience managing recruitment across multiple clients, locations, or job openings is strongly preferred.

• Proficiency in using HubSpot, Recruitee, Slack, and Google Workspace is strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with AI tools to enhance recruiting execution and team productivity is strongly preferred.

• Experience utilizing recruiting metrics and pipeline data to coach performance is strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with working in a fast-paced, high-accountability company is strongly preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work setting.

• Blue Cross Blue Shield medical insurance offering comprehensive plan coverage.

• Flexible paid time off, typically ranging from 12 to 15 days.

• Standard company holidays observed.

• 12 weeks of maternity leave provided.

• Direct access to leadership, along with opportunities for increased responsibility as the company expands.

• A results-oriented environment where strong performance fosters trust, ownership, and growth opportunities.